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

USSR. Vladimir Region. March 27, 1988. Participants in a memorial service near the village of Novoselovo in the Kirzhachsky District, dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the death of Heroes of the Soviet Union, the world's first cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin and test pilot Vladimir Sergeevich Seregin. Pilots Yu. A. Gagarin and V. S. Seregin died on March 27, 1968, as a result of 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. Alexey Zhigailov/TASS