Yuri Gagarin was born on March 9, 1934 in the village of Klushino
Because of the war, he graduated from 6th grade .And after that he entered the vocational school
In 1951 he moved to Saratov.
Yuri entered the industrial College of the city Saratov
In 1957 he graduated from the Orenburg school of pilots.
In March 1960, after a medical examination, Yuri Gagarin became one of the candidates for cosmonauts.
April 12, 1961 the ship "East" with Gagarin on Board went into space, made a revolution around the Earth.
After the flight, the rank of Gagarin was raised from senior Lieutenant to major.
Then he was the understudy of the Soyuz-1 cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov.
27 March 1968 the great cosmonaut and pilot crashed on jet