# Yuri Gagarin

> On 12 April 1961, a Soviet pilot climbed into Vostok 1 and became the first human being to leave Earth. The 108-minute orbit made Yuri Gagarin an instant global icon and handed the USSR its biggest win in the Space Race.

*Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, first human in space (1934-1968)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/yuri-gagarin

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Astronaut
- **Category:** Astronauts
- **Country:** Russia
- **Born:** 1934-03-09
- **Died:** 1968-03-27
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born in the village of Klushino in 1934, Gagarin worked as a foundryman in a steel plant before joining the Soviet Air Forces and flying missions near the Norwegian border. He was picked for the space programme alongside five others, and his single flight into orbit on 12 April 1961 turned him into a Hero of the Soviet Union and a deputy in both chambers of the Supreme Soviet. Vostok 1 would be his only spaceflight - after serving as backup to the fatal Soyuz 1 mission that killed his friend Vladimir Komarov, officials grounded him, unwilling to risk losing a national treasure. He became deputy training director of what would later be named the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre, completed engineering training in early 1968, and was cleared to fly again. Five weeks later, on 27 March 1968, the MiG-15 he was piloting with instructor Vladimir Seryogin crashed near Kirzhach.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 84.6 / 100
- **Momentum:** 0.2 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 29.9 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 3.5 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 65.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 75.0 / 100

## Platforms
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0300789/ (@nm0300789)

## Topics
#Historical Figures, #Other, #Space Exploration, #Politics, #Chemistry, #20th Century

## Timeline
- **1976** - International Space Hall of Fame
- **1968** - Died
- **1965** - Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
- **1962** - Order of the Nile
- **1961** - Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR
- **1961** - Hero of the Soviet Union
- **1961** - Order of Lenin
- **1961** - Order of the Flag of the People's Republic of Hungary
- **1958** - Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
- **1934** - Born

## Sources
- [Jurij Gagarin](https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurij_Gagarin)
- [Juri Alexejewitsch Gagarin](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juri_Alexejewitsch_Gagarin)
- [Yuri Gagarin](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin)
- [Гагарин, Юрий Алексеевич](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD%2C_%D0%AE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87)
- [Jurij Gagarin](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurij_Gagarin)
- [Youri Gagarine](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youri_Gagarine)
- [Joeri Gagarin](https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joeri_Gagarin)
- [Iuri Gagarin](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iuri_Gagarin)
- [尤里·加加林](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%A4%E9%87%8C%C2%B7%E5%8A%A0%E5%8A%A0%E6%9E%97)
- [ユーリイ・ガガーリン](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A6%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AC%E3%82%AC%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3)
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7327)
- [Pantheon 2.0](https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Yuri%20Gagarin)
- [Yuri Gagarin](https://ay.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin)
- [Юрий Гагарин](https://av.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD)
- [ዩሪ ጋጋሪን](https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%8B%A9%E1%88%AA_%E1%8C%8B%E1%8C%8B%E1%88%AA%E1%8A%95)
- [য়ুৰি গেগেৰিন](https://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A7%81%E0%A7%B0%E0%A6%BF_%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%87%E0%A7%B0%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A8)
- [Юрий Гагарин](https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD)
- [Yuri Gagarin](https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin)
- [Juri Alexejewitsch Gagarin](https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juri_Alexejewitsch_Gagarin)
- [Юрый Аляксеевіч Гагарын](https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AE%D1%80%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D0%90%D0%BB%D1%8F%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%96%D1%87_%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8B%D0%BD)
- [Юры Гагарын](https://be_x_old.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AE%D1%80%D1%8B_%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8B%D0%BD)
- [يورى جاجارين](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%89_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86)
- [यूरी गगारिन](https://bh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%82%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A8)
- [ইউরি গ্যাগারিন](https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF_%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%97%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A8)
- [Youriy Gagarin](https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youriy_Gagarin)
- [Jurij Gagarin](https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurij_Gagarin)
- [Wikiquote](https://az.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yuri_Qaqarin)
- [Wikiquote](https://bn.wikiquote.org/wiki/%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF_%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%97%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A8)
- [Yuri Gagarin](https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin)

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