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Exhibition devoted to the 50th anniversary of the flight of Yury Gagarin, March-April 2011

Yury Gagarin, first cosmonaut of the planet

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, founder of the astronautic theory

Yury Gagarin with Sergey Korolev, founder of the practical astronautics, Designer of the first satellite and manned space ships

First satellite being prepared to launch – beginning of the space era

Belka and Strelka, first living beings returned back to Earth from space

Yury Gagarin, 5th class pupil of Gzhatsk school. 1947

Yury Gagarin, junior sergeant of the Orenburg Air Force School, and his wife Valentina Gagarina

Yury Gagarin before parachute jump during cosmonaut training. Spring of 1960

The first Soviet cosmonaut team

The planet’s first cosmonaut Yury Gagarin and his backup German Titov going to Baikonur space center. April 12, 1961

April 12, 1961. The launch of Vostok-1, first spacecraft that placed a human being to a circumterrestrial orbit

The descent module of the Vostok-1 spacecraft after landing. April 12, 1961

Gagrin and Khrushchev at the podium of Lenin’s mausoleum at Red Square during ceremonial welcome meeting. April 14, 1961

First six Soviet cosmonauts: Y.Gagarin, A.Nikolaev, V.Tereshkova, P.Popovich, V.Bykovsky, G.Titov

Yury Gagarin with dove of peace. 1961

One of the first visits of Yury Gagarin abroad after the flight

Yury Gagarin was always welcomed after his space flight

Yury Gagarin. 1965

Yury Gagarin with a model of the sport plane he flew at a flying club in Saratov presented to him by the club members

Together with daughters Lena and Galina

One of the last photos of Yury Gagarin made not long before his death in an aviation accident

Lunokhod-1, first self-propelled automatic lunar rover. 1971

Soyuz-10 spacecraft on the launch pad. The Baikonur space center, Kazakhstan. 1971

On July 15, 1975 Soyuz-19 was launched in the USSR and Apollo in the USA The first joint flight of two nations began

Vladimír Remek, the first man in space, who was not citizen of the USSR or the USA, the first Czechoslovak cosmonaut

Vladimír Remek in the European space centre in Belgium

Rescue team welcomes crew of Soyuz-35 spacecraft after landing. Leonid Popov and Valery Ryumin spent 185 days in orbit. 1980

The Russian Mir space station was deorbited and sunk in the Pacific on March 23, 2001 after a 15-year tour of duty in space

The International Space Station as it is seen from space shuttle Discovery after separation

ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli (Italy) is pictured in the window of the vault of the International Space Station on January, 2 2011

A carrier rocket with the European weather satellite MetOp transported to the launch pad of the Baikonur space center. 2006

Preparations to launch a new carrier rocket Soyuz-2 with the European satellite GIOVE-B at the Baikonur space center. 2006

Training of Soyuz TM-34 crew. Yuri Gidzenko (Russia), Roberto Vittori (Italy) and space tourist Mark Shuttleworth (South Africa)

Frank De Winne (Belgium) during his winter survival training in a Russian forest

Roberto Vittori (Italy) is surrounded by Russian officials after landing

STS-122 and Expedition 16 crew on board the International space station. February 9, 2008

Training of Paolo Nespoli (Italy) at Star City (Russia)

Soyuz TMA-15 crew. Roman Romanenko, Frank De Winne and Robert Thirsk receive a blessing before the launch

Soyuz TMA-15 crew. Roman Romanenko, Frank De Winne and Robert Thirsk before the launch

Prime and backup crews of the 24th expedition to International Space Station

Mars 500 crew to enter isolation facility in the Institute of medical and biological problems of the Russian academy of sciences

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