Reception in honor of Yuri Gagarin in the Kremlin

USSR. Moscow. Yuri Gagarin's wife Valentina Ivanovna Gagarina, Hero of the Soviet Union, USSR pilot-cosmonaut, the first person in the world to make an orbital flight on the Vostok spacecraft on April 12, 1961, Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, his wife Nina Petrovna, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev and Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Frol Romanovich Kozlov (from left to right) in the Kremlin during a gala reception dedicated to the successful space flight of Yuri Gagarin. Vasily Yegorov/TASS