Press conference of Yuri Gagarin in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. April 15, 1961. President of the USSR Academy of Sciences Alexander Nikolaevich Nesmeyanov (second from right) and Hero of the Soviet Union, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, awarded the Tsiolkovsky Medal, (second from left) during a press conference at the House of Scientists dedicated to the successful completion of manned space flight. Vladimir Savostyanov/TASS