Meeting of Yuri Gagarin in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. USSR pilot-cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, the first person in the world to make an orbital flight on the Soviet spacecraft Vostok on April 12, 1961 (foreground) and First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (background) during the welcoming ceremony for Yuri A. Gagarin at Vnukovo Airport. Valery Gende-Rote/TASS