Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Russian Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961.
AwardsHero Of The Soviet Union; Order Of Lenin; Pilot-Cosmonaut Of The USSR; Hero Of Socialist Labor Of Czechoslovakia; Hero Of Socialist Labor; Order Of Georgi Dimitrov; Order Of The Cross Of Grunwald; Order Of The Flag Of The Republic Of Hungary; Order Of Karl Marx; Order Of The Nile; Order Of Klement Gottwald
