Visit of Yuri Gagarin and Vyacheslav Bykovsky to Sweden

Sweden. Stockholm. March 2, 1964. The first person to fly into space, Hero of the Soviet Union, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin and city resident Lennart Wester, who was born on April 12, 1961, the day of Yuri Gagarin's flight into space, was awarded a souvenir badge from the first cosmonaut of the planet. Valentin Cheredintsev/TASS