Meeting of Yuri Gagarin in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, the first person in the world to make an orbital flight on the Soviet spacecraft Vostok on April 12, 1961, and his wife Valentina Ivanovna Gagarina (in the car, from left to right) during the motorcade's passage to Red Square to take part in a rally in honor of the first manned flight into space. Valentin Sobolev/TASS