A film about the life of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, committed 12 April 1961 the first in the history of mankind in space flight on board the spaceship "Vostok" and about the time that shaped his character and determined his fate.
The film was edited from the film documents and photographs taken during the life of Yuri Gagarin, filming locations, where he lived Gagarin, documents and memories of relatives and friends (synchronous) and frames documentary chronicles illustrating the steps of practical astronautics in the USSR under the leadership of Sergei Korolev: launch of the first liquid fuel rocket in 1932, the assembly of the spacecraft (50th GG), the cosmonaut passes medical examination;
training astronauts in the Cosmonaut Training Center; Gagarin jumping with a parachute during a training flight, the launch of the spacecraft with a dummy launch spacecraft with Yuri Gagarin.
Key words
Astronautics.