Celebrating Cosmonautics Day in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. April 12, 1963. Heroes of the Soviet Union, USSR pilot-cosmonauts German Stepanovich Titov, Andriyan Grigorievich Nikolaev, Pavel Romanovich Popovich, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Moscow City Council Vladimir Fedorovich Promyslov, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Andreevich Suslov, Hero of the Soviet Union, USSR pilot-cosmonaut, the first person to make a space flight, Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan and member of the Presidium of the CPSU Central Committee Dmitry Stepanovich Polyansky (from left to right in the foreground) during a ceremonial meeting dedicated to Cosmonautics Day, in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Vasily Yegorov, Valentin Sobolev/TASS