The second anniversary of the death of Yuri Gagarin and Vyacheslav Seregin

USSR. Moscow. Hero of the Soviet Union, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Valery Nikolaevich Kubasov and twice Hero of the Soviet Union, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Alexei Stanislavovich Eliseyev (from right to left in the third plane) at the ceremony of laying flowers at the burial place of the first person in space, Hero of the Soviet Union, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin and Hero of the Soviet Union, test pilot 1st class, pilot-instructor Vladimir Sergeyevich Seregin on the territory of the necropolis near the Kremlin wall. 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. Vladimir Musaelyan/TASS