Alekseyevich Yuri Gagarin (Cyrillic script: Юрий Алексеевич Гагарин; ISO Short Name: Ûrij Alekseevič Gagarin), March 9, 1934 - March 27, 1968) was a Soviet cosmonaut. On April 12, 1961, Gagarin was the first man to fly over the 108 minute flight into space by rocket Vostok 1. He received many awards and medals of honor, including the medal "Hero of the Soviet Union. " Yuri Gagarin became the Deputy Director of Training at the Cosmonaut Training Center outside Moscow. In honor of his services, where the training was then called by his name. He died while doing exercises with MiG-15 aircraft near Moscow, on November 27, 1968. Based on reports Russian commission that was signed by Russian President at the time, Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Gagarin's cause of death because the plane too sharply while maneuvering to avoid a weather balloon.
Travel life
Yuri Gagarin was born in a village called Klushino near Gzhatsk (now located in the Smolensk Oblast, Russia), on March 9, 1934. Yuri is the third child of four children. His father was a carpenter until Yuri aged 7 years, then his father joined the army. During high school, Yuri chose to study as a technician at a vocational technical school in Saratov. In 1955, after completing technical school, he enrolled as a student at the flight school Orenburg. Following from flight school, Yuri enroll in the Soviet Air Force Academy. Yuri graduated from the Soviet Air Force Academy in 1957 and joined the cosmonaut corps in 1960.
Award
Yuri Gagarin was also awarded numerous awards and medals from the International world apart from Russia. Among them, as a tribute from the people of Indonesia, in 1961, when President Sukarno visited the Soviets, he was awarded the medal Mahaputra.
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