Yuri alexeyevich yury alekseyevich gagarin1934 was born on March 9, 1934 in the collective farm family of Kerrouche Nuo Town, Satz District, Smolensk Region, the Soviet Union. Belarusian. 195 1 year, he graduated from Lu Belch Vocational Middle School with excellent results and became a well-trained metallurgical worker. He continued to study in saratov Industrial and Technical School and learned to fly in his spare time. 1955 After graduating with honors from the Industrial Technology School, he began to study flying in orenburg Aviation Military School. 1957 joined the Soviet army and became a fighter pilot of a certain regiment of the North Sea Fleet Air Force. 1959 10, the selection of the first batch of astronauts in the former Soviet union was launched nationwide. Gagarin stood out from more than 3,400 air force pilots under the age of 35 and became one of the 20 selected pilots. 1960 In March, Gagarin began to receive training at the former Soviet Astronaut Training Center. During the training, Gagarin became the first astronaut in the former Soviet Union with his firm belief, excellent physique, optimistic spirit and extraordinary wit. 1960 Accession. /KOOC-0/96/KOOC-0/April/KOOC-0/2, 2008, at 9: 07 a.m. Moscow time, Gagarin set sail from Baikonur launch site on the spaceship "Dongfang"/KOOC-0/and circled the earth at the highest altitude of 30/KOOC-0/km for/KOOC-0. After this historic flight, Gagarin won the Lenin Medal and was awarded the titles of "Soviet hero" and "Soviet astronaut". He went abroad many times and visited 27 countries, and 22 cities awarded him the title of honorary citizen. 1962, Gagarin was elected as the representative of the sixth supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. 1964 1 1 month, he served as the chairman of the board of directors of the Soviet Cuba Friendship Association. After the first space flight, Gagarin took an active part in training other astronauts. 196/kloc-0 became the captain of the astronauts in may/2008, and 19631February was promoted to the position of deputy director of the astronaut training center. While training other astronauts, he himself did not give up training and dreamed of going into space again. 1in April, 967, he completed the training and preparation for the first flight of Soyuz spacecraft and became the successor of astronaut komarov. After the space training, he didn't give up flying fighters, but went to zhukovsky Aviation Military Academy to continue learning to fly, and graduated in February 1968. 1968 On March 27th, a two-seater jet plane crashed, and he and flight instructor Serekin were killed in a routine training flight. After Gagarin's death, his ashes were buried in a niche on the wall of the Kremlin. His hometown of Satz was named Gagarin City, and the astronaut training center he trained was named after him. To commemorate Gagarin's feat of going into space for the first time, Russia designated April 12 as the Space Festival every year, and held a grand commemorative event on this day to remember this hero. His wife valentina met Gagarin at orenburg Aviation School and got married in 1957.