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

USSR. Vladimir Region. October 17, 1975. The guard of honor during the funeral service dedicated to the opening of the obelisk by a group of sculptors and architects headed by Nikolai Nikolaevich Ullas 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 near the village of Novoselovo in the Kirzhachsky District. Pilots Yu. A. Gagarin and V. S. Seregin died on March 27, 1968, as a result of an air crash during a training flight on a MiG-15UTI aircraft. Valentin Kuzmin, Alexander Yakovlev/TASS