90 years ago, on March 9, 1934, Yuri Gagarin, a cosmonaut pilot and Hero of the Soviet Union, was born

He made the first space flight in world history on April 12, 1961. On that remarkable day, a correspondent from Komsomolskaya Pravda visited the apartment of the first cosmonaut.

"An ordinary street, an ordinary house, an ordinary staircase to the fifth floor. We pressed the button. An ordinary woman opened the door...

Two rooms, a kitchen. Wallpaper with flowers, curtains, shelves filled with books, a round table. A television set and a radio receiver. They never turn off in this apartment. The whole world is listening to Gagarin now. The whole world considers him theirs. He is the son of the Earth, and the Earth listens and waits for him. And in this room, his wife and two children: Lena and Galya. His wife's name is Valya. We congratulate her. She is embarrassed, joyful, and worried...
"Daddy..." says little Lena and stops chewing the apple...

On the round table are three albums with photographs. Here he is, a boy in short pants, running as fast as he can towards the river. The photo was taken in the Smolensk region, in his native village. Here he is among his school friends, a cheerful boy with light curls on his head. A photo of his mother and father. Here he is next to the teacher. Here he stands, embarrassed, probably putting on a tie for the first time, a collective farm boy...

Another page of the album. A large group shot. The inscription on the photograph reads "Saratov Industrial College. Class of 1955." Among hundreds of young faces, we find a familiar name: Yuri Gagarin. On the same page, there is another photo: Yuri on the wing of an airplane. He waves his hand at someone, wanting to say something very funny...

Gagarin... How many times will they call this simple Russian surname now? Major Gagarin. But to her, he is just Yura. And to Lenochka, he is just a father. And the Earth will call him Son and will be forever proud."

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