Presentation of the "Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR" badge to Yuri Gagarin in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. Hero of the Soviet Union, Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force - Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR, Chief Marshal of Aviation Konstantin Andreevich Vershinin, the first person in the world to fly into space, Hero of the Soviet Union, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, awarded the "Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR" breast badge, Hero of the Soviet Union, Lieutenant General of Aviation Nikolai Petrovich Kamanin and the head of the Secretariat of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko (left to right) after the award ceremony. Vladimir Musaelyan/TASS