Celebrating the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's birth

Russia. Moscow Region. Star City. President and General Designer of the S. P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia Yuri Pavlovich Semenov, Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Aleksandrovich Gubarev, General Designer of the V. P. Barmin General Machine-Building Design Bureau Igor Vladimirovich Barmin, Head of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center Pyotr Ilyich Klimuk, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Air Force Pyotr Stepanovich Deinekin, Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Aleksandrovich Shatalov, film director Sergei Fyodorovich Bondarchuk, the world's first female cosmonaut Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova and Director of the Information and Press Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sergei Vladimirovich Yasterzhembsky (from left to right in the foreground) at the flower-laying ceremony at the monument to the world's first cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin on the 60th anniversary of his birth. Albert Pushkarev/TASS