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 and 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 (in the center, from left to right) during the welcoming ceremony for Yuri A. Gagarin at Vnukovo Airport. Valery Gende-Rote/TASS