Meeting of Yuri Gagarin in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. Soviet pilot-cosmonaut Major Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, who made the world's first space flight on April 12, 1961, on the Vostok-1 spacecraft, First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, Yuri Gagarin's wife Valentina Ivanovna, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, member of the Presidium of the CPSU Central Committee Frol Romanovich Kozlov (from left to right in the foreground), Yuri Gagarin's mother Anna Timofeyevna (from left in the background), member of the Presidium of the CPSU Central Committee Dmitry Stepanovich Polyansky (in the center in the background), secretary and member of the Presidium of the CPSU Central Committee Nuritdin Akramovich Mukhitdinov (in the center in the third background), First Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan (on the right in the background) and the Chairman of the Party Control Committee under the CPSU Central Committee Nikolai Mikhailovich Shvernik (right, third plane) after the ceremonial rally in honor of Yuri Gagarin on Red Square. Viktor Yankov/TASS Viktor Yankov/TASS