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. Participants in a memorial service dedicated to the unveiling of an obelisk by a group of sculptors and architects led 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, in a plane crash during a training flight on a MiG-15UTI aircraft. Valentin Kuzmin, Alexander Yakovlev/TASS