Category:Yuri Gagarin

Yuri Gagarin
	Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, the first human in space
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Date of birth	9 March 1934; Klushino (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union); Юрий Алексеевич Гагарин
Date of death	27 March 1968; Kirzhach (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union) aviation accident;
Place of burial	Kremlin Wall Necropolis;
Country of citizenship	Soviet Union;
Residence	Soviet Union;
Educated at	Saratov Industrial Technical (August 1951); Orenburg Military Aviation Piloting High School (27 October 1955, 25 October 1957); Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy (1 September 1961, 2 March 1968, Sergey Belotserkovsky);
Occupation	aircraft pilot; astronaut; military officer; politician;
Member of	International Academy of Astronautics;
Member of political party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1960);
Position held	member of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union;
Child	Yelena Gagarina; Galina Yuryevna Gagarina;
Spouse	Valentina Ivanovna Gagarina;
Award received	Hero of the Soviet Union (14 April 1961); Order of Lenin (14 April 1961); Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR (27 June 1961); Hero of Socialist Labour of Czechoslovakia (29 April 1961); Hero of Socialist Labour (24 May 1961); Order of Georgi Dimitrov (24 May 1961); Order of the Cross of Grunwald, 1st class (20 June 1961); Order of the Flag of the Republic of Hungary (21 August 1961); Order of Karl Marx (22 October 1963); Order of the Nile (31 January 1962); Order of Klement Gottwald; Hero of Labor (28 April 1962); Star of the Republic of Indonesia (10 June 1961); Order of Playa Girón (18 July 1961); Order of the Star of Africa (6 February 1962); Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" (1958); Medal "For the Development of Virgin Lands" (12 April 1961); Gold Star (14 April 1961, 11175); Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (9 May 1965); Medal "For Impeccable Service", 3rd class (March 1966); Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" (January 1968); Order of the Southern Cross (1961); Merited Master of Sports of the USSR; Medal "For Impeccable Service"; Q16663835; Order of the Cross of Grunwald; Order of Aeronautical Merit; Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union;
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Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (Russian: Юрий Алексеевич Гагарин; March 9, 1934 – March 27, 1968), was a Soviet cosmonaut who in 1961 became the first human to travel into space.