Yuri Gagarin

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1934-03-09

Deathday

1968-03-27 (34 years old)

Birth Name

Юрий Алексеевич Гагарин

Birth Place

Klushino, Russia

Height

1.57-meter, 1.65-meter

Children

Galina Gagarina, Yelena Gagarina

Father

Aleksey Gagarin

Mother

Anna Gagarina

Citizenships

Soviet Union

Residences

Soviet Union, Soviet Union

Also Known As

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, Юрий Алексеевич Гагарин, Юрий Гагарин, Youri Alexeïevitch Gagarine, Juri Alexejewitsch Gagarin, Jurij Alekseevič Gagarin, Youri Gagarine

Awards

Pilot class qualification, Merited Master of Sports of the USSR, Order of Playa Girón, Order of the Cross of Grunwald, 1st class, Medal "For the Development of Virgin Lands", Order of Aeronautical Merit, Star of the Republic of Indonesia, Order of Georgi Dimitrov, Hero of Labor, Order of Klement Gottwald, Order of the Star of Africa, Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Hero of Socialist Labour, Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR, Order of Karl Marx, Hero of Socialist Labour of Czechoslovakia, Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR", Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR", Order of the Nile, Order of the Cross of Grunwald, Order of the Flag of the People's Republic of Hungary, Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, Order of Lenin, Hero of the Soviet Union, Order of the Southern Cross, International Space Hall of Fame, Medal "For Impeccable Service", 3rd class