A film about the flight of Yuri Gagarin into space on April 12, 1961. The film uses materials from foreign newsreels.
A film about the space flight of Yuri Gagarin on April 12, 1961. The film uses materials from foreign newsreels. Views of the cities of Moscow, London, Paris, Rome. France. The city of Paris. The editorial office of the newspaper "L'Humanite". A newspaper carrier on the street. A man reads and buys a newspaper. Bulgaria. The city of Sofia. A rally near the building of the Soviet embassy. Poland. The city of Warsaw. People in front of the television. A black man holds a newspaper with greetings to Yuri Gagarin. Blacks with posters. The city of Moscow. The Kremlin. The clock on the Spasskaya Tower shows 10:02. Radio tower. People listen to the loudspeaker in the square. Young people rejoice and applaud. Demonstration and rally on Red Square. The newspaper "Pravda" is being printed in a printing house. The Central Telegraph. Telegraph operators print messages. A ceremonial welcome of Yuri Gagarin at the Vnukovo airfield. N. S. Khrushchev, parents of Yu. Gagarin, wife of cosmonaut V. Gagarin at the airfield. Report of Yu. A. Gagarin to N. S. Khrushchev. The motorcade of cars passes through the streets of Moscow. Demonstration and rally on Red Square. Speaking Yu. Gagarin, N. S. Khrushchev (synchronously).




Moscow.
Okhotny Ryad – general (shot from above).
Streets of London, Paris, Rome – general.
Embankment of the Moskva River near the Kremlin.
Gorky Street – general.
Work in a watch factory workshop, winding the clock – short (shot from a zoom in).
Loudspeaker – short, zoom in.
Kremlin chimes – "10:02 a.m." – short.
Panorama of the radio mast.
Two loudspeakers – short.
Faces of people listening to the radio announcement of the launch of the Vostok satellite ship – short.
Applauding in the streets – short, medium.
Earth (shot from an airplane because of the clouds).
Clouds.
A spontaneous demonstration on the streets of Moscow and on Red Square.
Medical students, other students, and young people march with slogans and banners.
The demonstrators rock a boy named Yura, a pilot.
An old woman is speaking (synchronously) – Wed.
The newspaper Pravda is coming off the printing press in the printing house - kr, Wed.
Gagarin's portrait in the newspaper – kr.
Operators are working at the switchboard at the international telephone exchange.
The editorial office of the newspaper L'Humanite in Paris - Wed.
Parisians are reading newspapers with a report on the launch of the Soviet spacecraft.
Newspapers are sold on the street.
Residents of Belgrade at the building of the Soviet embassy.
A panorama of foreign newspapers – kr, Wed.
Muscovites greeting Gagarin on the streets - kr, Wed.
A television set on the street in Warsaw - kr, people in front of the television.
The building of the Vnukovo airfield - kr.
The leaders of the party and government, Gagarin's parents, his wife, Muscovites at the airfield - kr.
On the podium are N.S. Khrushchev, F.R. Kozlov, K.E. Voroshilov, E.A. Furtseva, L.I. Brezhnev, parents and wife of Yuri Gagarin.
An IL-18 plane flies by with an honorary escort.
The plane lands.
Yuri Gagarin gets off the plane, approaches N.S. Khrushchev and reports (synchronously).
Yuri Gagarin and N.S. Khrushchev kiss.
Yuri Gagarin kisses his parents and wife.
Television screens in the Soviet Union and abroad, people watch Gagarin's welcome at the airfield, which is broadcast by the television center.
Yuri Gagarin, his wife and N.S. Khrushchev get into the car and drive away.




Leaflets are dropped from a flying helicopter – cf.
A helicopter flies over the Garden Ring.
A car with Yu. A. Gagarin and N. S. Khrushchev drives along the streets.
Muscovites greet the hero of space.
Red Square, filled with people.
Members of the government and Yu. A. Gagarin ascend the tribune of the Mausoleum.
Yu. A. Gagarin, N. S. Khrushchev, leaders of the party and government on the tribune.
Yu. A. Gagarin makes a speech (synchronously) – general, cf. N. S. Khrushchev speaks (synchronously) - cr.
Children with flowers head to the Mausoleum, present flowers to members of the government and Yu. A. Gagarin.
Demonstrators walk along Red Square.
A formal reception in the St.
George Hall of the Kremlin.
Members of Yu. A. Gagarin's family, Yu. A. Gagarin, Khrushchev and others ascend the stairs. L.I. Brezhnev presents Yu.A. Gagarin with the Order of Lenin and the gold star of the Hero of the Soviet Union, kisses him.
Yu.A. Gagarin is congratulated on the award by N.S. Khrushchev, F.R. Kozlov, R.Ya.
Malinovsky, K.E. Voroshilov and others.
Festivities on Manezhnaya Square, on Mayakovsky Square (in the evening).



