Reception in honor of Yuri Gagarin in the Kremlin

USSR. Moscow. First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, wife of Yuri A. Gagarin Valentina Ivanovna, Hero of the Soviet Union, USSR pilot-cosmonaut, the first person in the world to make an orbital flight on the Vostok spacecraft on April 12, 1961, Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, wife of N. S. Khrushchev Nina Petrovna Khrushcheva, First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan, Chief Designer of Special Design Bureau No. 1 (OKB-1) Sergei Pavlovich Korolev and his wife Nina Ivanovna Koroleva (from left to right) in the Kremlin during a gala reception dedicated to the successful space flight of Yuri A. Gagarin. Vasily Yegorov/TASS