Yuri Gagarin Biography - Birth date, Achievements, Career, Family, Awards

Yuri Gagarin was born on March 9, 1934, in Russia, Soviet Union. His father's name was Alexey Ivanovich Gagarin and his mother's name was Anna Timofeyevna Gagarina. His father Alex Ivanovich Gagarin worked as a carpenter and his mother Anna Timofeyevna Gagarina worked as a dairy farmer. His parents had four children, he was the third among his brothers. Inkbade's brother's name was Valentin, who helped the cattle in the fields.

He died on 27 March 1968 (age 34) in Novosolovo, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, due to the crash of the aircraft while he was piloting a training aircraft named MiG-15.

In 1950, at the age of 16, Gagarin began an apprenticeship as a foundry at a steel plant in Hubertsee, near Moscow, and enrolled in a local "youth worker" school for evening classes of seventh grade. After graduating from seventh grade and vocational school in 1951 and honoring in foundry work, he was selected for training at the Sharatov Industrial Technical School, where he studied tractors. At Saratov, Gagarin volunteered as a Soviet flying cadet for weekend training at a local flying club, where he trained to fly the biplane and later the Yak-18.

Yuri Gagarin practiced at the first Chaklovsky Higher Air Force Pilot School. He initially began training with the Yak-18, which was already familiar and later trained in the MiG-15 in February 1956. Gagarin struggled twice to land the two-seater trainer aircraft, and risked his dismissal from pilot training. However, the commander of the regiment decided to give him another chance at landing. Gagarin's flight instructor gave him a cushion to sit on, which improved his outlook from the cockpit and he successfully landed. Gagarin began solo flying in 1957, after completing his evaluation in a trainer aircraft. On 5 November 1957, Gagarin was appointed Lieutenant in the Soviet Air Force, accumulating 166 hours and 47 minutes of flight time. He graduated from flying school the next day and was stationed at Luostari Air Base close to the Norwegian border in Murmansk Oblast for a two-year assignment with the Northern Fleet. On 7 July 1959, he was given the status of Military Pilot 3rd Class.।

After expressing interest in space exploration following the launch of Luna 3 on 6 October 1959, his recommendation for the Soviet space program was further supported and supported by Lt. Col. Babuskin. By this point, he had accumulated a flight time of 265 hours. Gagarin was promoted to the rank of Senior Lieutenant on 6 November 1959, after which he was interviewed by a Medical Commission for qualification in the space program. On 12 April 1961, at 6:07 am UTC, the Vostok 3KA-3 (Vostok 1) spacecraft was launched from the Baconur Cosmodrome. Agar was Gagarin, the first human to travel in space, who used the call sign Kedar.

On 14 April 1961, Gagarin was honored with a 12-mile (19 km) parade, attended by millions of people who concluded at Red Square. After a short speech, he was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union, the Order of Lenin, the Merit Master of Sports of the Soviet Union, and the first pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR. On 15 April, the Soviet Academy of Sciences awarded him the Konstantin Tsolkowski Gold Medal, named after the Russian pioneer of aeronautics of space. Gagarin was also awarded four Soviet commemorative medals during his career.

He was honored as the Hero of Socialist Labor (Czechoslovakia) on 29 April 1961 and the same year as the Hero of Socialist Labor (Bulgaria, including the Order of Georgi Dimitrov). On the eighth anniversary of the start of the Cuban revolution (26 July), Cuban President Osvaldo Dorticos presented him with the first of the newly created medals, the Commander of the Order of Playa Giron. Gagarin was also awarded the 1960 Gold Air Medal and the 1961 De La Vallux Medal of the Federal Irononic Internationale of Switzerland. That year he received several awards from other nations, including Star of Indonesia Republic (second class), The Order of the Grünwald in Poland (first degree), Order of the Flag of the Republic of Hungary, Nayak. Additionally, he was honored with several big world awards.