Space is ours! (1961.04)

People rejoicing upon receiving the official announcement of Yuri Gagarin's successful space flight on April 12, 1961. A loudspeaker on a pole.

View of the area (from above).

People rejoicing on the streets and squares of Moscow.

A spontaneous column of demonstrators on Manezhnaya Square with a homemade banner in honor of Gagarin.

A ceremonial procession on the streets of Moscow, people carrying homemade banners with slogans.

Spontaneous rallies on the streets and squares of Moscow.

Rally participants rock a boy named Yura and a military pilot.

A ceremonial rally on Red Square.

Views of a rally.

An elderly woman speaks at a rally on Red Square, faces of rally participants.

A copy of the Pravda newspaper is released in a printing house.

A printing house worker reads the newspaper.

Gagarin's portrait in the newspaper.

Operators at the international telephone exchange connect subscribers.

Parisians read an emergency bulletin at the entrance to the H'Manité newspaper office.

Faces of Parisians reading the bulletin.

Discussion of illustrations in the office of a French newspaper.

An elderly newsboy on the street of Paris.

People read newspapers as they walk.

A rally in Sofia near the USSR embassy; the USSR ambassador greets the participants.

Reports in foreign newspapers about the first manned space flight.

British people read a newspaper.

Moscow residents on the streets, awaiting Yuri Gagarin's return to Moscow.

Faces of adults and children.

African students with banners on a Moscow street.

Warsaw residents watching television in a shop window.

The festively decorated building of Vnukovo Airport.

People stand holding portraits of Gagarin.

Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Kosygin, and their entourage walk to the tribune along the airfield.

Brezhnev, Khrushchev, Ignatov, and the leaders of the party and government approach the podium with Gagarin's parents, Anna Timofeyevna and Alexei Ivanovich, and his wife, Valentina Ivanovna.

Voroshilov, Khrushchev, Ignatov, Mikoyan, and Gagarin's parents are on the podium awaiting the landing of the plane with Gagarin on board.

The plane with Gagarin on board flies by accompanied by a fighter escort.

Those greeting the plane at the airfield.

The plane finishes taxiing.

Yuri Gagarin exits the plane and descends the steps.

Gagarin walks to the podium along the unrolled carpet, climbs the steps, and reports to Khrushchev.

Gagarin reports the successful completion of the space flight.

Khrushchev embraces and kisses Gagarin, and those present applaud.

Gagarin, Khrushchev, and the leaders of the party and government are on the podium after the congratulations.

Gagarin embraces his wife.

Citizens of foreign countries watch the report from Vnukovo on television.

Gagarin is on the podium, hugging his parents and wife, and Gagarin's father is wiping his eyes with a handkerchief.

People are watching the television.

Gagarin and Khrushchev walk past those greeting them, returning their greetings.

Gagarin, his wife, and Khrushchev climb into an open limousine, and the motorcade speeds off.