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

USSR. Vladimir Region. 1987. A group of schoolchildren, Syrian and Soviet cosmonauts during a flower-laying ceremony at the memorial near the village of Novoselovo in the 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, in a plane 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. Albert Pushkarev/TASS