Visit of Yuri Gagarin to Brazil

July 28-31, 1961. Brazil. Rio de Janeiro. Hero of the Soviet Union, USSR pilot-cosmonaut, the first person in the world to make an orbital flight on the Vostok spacecraft on April 12, 1961, Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (center) and the head of the Department for the Preparation and Support of Space Flights of the General Staff of the USSR Air Force Nikolai Petrovich Kamanin (second from the right in the background) during a meeting with students. The exact date of the photo is unknown. Valentin Sobolev/TASS