Visit of Yuri Gagarin to India

India. Delhi. November 30, 1961. Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru, the first person in world history to fly into outer space, Hero of the Soviet Union, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin and his wife Valentina Ivanovna (from right to left) at the sculpture "Space" (a gift from an Indian author), personifying man's aspiration to space, on the lawn in front of the palace of the residence. Valentin Cheredintsev/TASS