Farewell to Yu. A. Gagarin and V. S. Seregin in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. Yuri Gagarin's widow Valentina Ivanovna (center), Hero of the Soviet Union, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Valentina Vladimirovna Nikolaeva-Tereshkova (right) at the farewell ceremony for Heroes of the Soviet Union, the world's first cosmonaut, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin and test pilot Vladimir Sergeyevich Seregin in the Red Banner Hall of the Central House of the Soviet Army named after M. V. Frunze. Pilots Yuri A. Gagarin and V. S. Seregin died in a plane crash while performing a training flight on a MiG-15UTI aircraft. Vladimir Musaelyan, Vladimir Savostyanov/TASS