Meeting of G.S. Titov in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. August 9, 1961. First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, USSR pilot-cosmonaut, the first person to make a long-term space flight, German Stepanovich Titov and USSR pilot-cosmonaut, Hero of the Soviet Union Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (from left to right, center, foreground) during the ceremonial meeting of cosmonaut G.S. Titov at Vnukovo Airport. Valery Gende-Rote/TASS