The Russian State Archive of Scientific and Technical Documentation (RGANTD) has published for the first time photographs of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin from the scene of the crash, taken immediately after the plane crash on March 27, 1968.
“This is the first time RGANTD is posting photos from the crash scene,” the archive says on social networks.
Archive published The three photos with the wreckage of the fuselage were taken on March 28, the day after the plane crash.
Gagarin, along with front line pilot Vladimir Seregin, was killed when he crashed into a MiG-15 UTI training fighter.
The pilots took off from the Chkalovsky airport near Moscow on the morning of March 27, their plane crashed near the village of Novoselovo near Kirzhach in the Vladimir region.
Despite the many versions put forward, the exact causes of the disaster remain unknown to this day.
Pilot-cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was born on March 9, 1934 in the village of Klushino, Tver Region. Gagarin made the first space flight on April 12, 1961. March 9, 2023 Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov declarationThat the Kremlin honors Yuri Gagarin, the world’s first cosmonaut, but no special memorial events are planned for his birthday.
Previously reportedThat Roskosmos declassified Yuri Gagarin’s personal file.