Awarding A.T. Gagarina and M.N. Balanina in Moscow

USSR, Moscow. December 1976. Mother of the chief designer of Soviet rocket and space systems Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, Maria Nikolaevna Balanina, and mother of Hero of the Soviet Union, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, Anna Timofeyevna (from right to left) during a conversation in M.N. Balanina’s apartment. A.T. Gagarina and M.N. Balanina were awarded medals named after Academician S.P. Korolev and diplomas named after Yu.A. Gagarin. The exact date of the photo is unknown. Alexander Romanov/TASS