Obelisk at the site of the death of Yuri Gagarin and V.S. Seregin in the Vladimir region

Russia. Vladimir Region. March 27, 1998. A fragment of the memorial near the village of Novoselovo, Kirzhachsky District, opened at the site of the death of Heroes of the Soviet Union, the world's first cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin and test pilot Vladimir Sergeyevich Seregin. Pilots Yu. A. Gagarin and V. S. Seregin died on March 27, 1968, as a result of an air crash during a training flight on a MiG-15UTI aircraft. The monument, the work of a group of sculptors and architects headed by Nikolai Nikolayevich Ullas, was erected on October 17, 1975. Valentin Kuzmin/TASS