Funeral of Yuri Gagarin and Vladimir Seregin in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. Yuri Gagarin's widow Valentina Ivanovna, Hero of the Soviet Union, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Valentina Vladimirovna Nikolaeva-Tereshkova (from left to right in the background) and Yuri Gagarin's daughter Elena 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. Pilots Yuri Gagarin and V. S. Seregin died in a plane crash while performing a training flight on a MiG-15UTI aircraft. Valentin Mastyukov/TASS