Reception in honor of Yuri Gagarin in the Kremlin

USSR. Moscow. April 14, 1961. Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev and USSR pilot-cosmonaut Major Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (left to right), who made the world's first space flight on the Vostok-1 spacecraft on April 12, 1961, during the presentation of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star of the Hero of the Soviet Union to Yu. A. Gagarin in the St. George Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace. Vladimir Savostyanov/TASS