Rally in honor of A.G. Nikolaev and P.R. Popovich in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. August 18, 1962. Heroes of the Soviet Union, USSR pilot-cosmonauts German Stepanovich Titov and Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, USSR pilot-cosmonauts Pavel Romanovich Popovich and Andriyan Grigorievich Nikolaev and member of the Presidium of the CPSU Central Committee Frol Romanovich Kozlov (from left to right) on the tribune of the Lenin Mausoleum during a ceremonial meeting. USSR pilot-cosmonauts A.G. Nikolaev and P.R. Popovich made the first multi-day group flight in the history of cosmonautics on the Vostok-3 and Vostok-4 spacecraft from August 11 to 15, 1962. Vladimir Savostyanov/TASS