On that cold, but bright, April day we were guests of your government in the reviewing stand of Red Square to witness the poeple's celebration for Yuri Gagarin and later on that day we attended the somewhat more exclusive reception for him in one of the impressive palaces of the Kremlin.

* 1961 – The Russian ( Soviet ) cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight, in Vostok 3KA-2 ( Vostok 1 ).

On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to fly in space, reinforcing American fears about being left behind in a technological competition with the Soviet Union.

The rock band from Pasadena, Ozma plays a balalaika on the song " Flight Of Yuri Gagarin "; it is derived from their partially Russian themed album Double Donkey Disc.

The first human spaceflight in history was accomplished on a derivative of R-7, Vostok, on 12 April 1961, by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.

* 1985 – Bring Me the Head of Yuri Gagarin ( live 1973 )

It succeeded in the first but not the second: in the first Mercury mission on 5 May 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space ; however the Soviet Union had put Yuri Gagarin into space one month earlier.

In the first Mercury mission on 5 May 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space and the second person following Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Union who flew one month earlier.

* 1968 – Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut ( b. 1934 )

First human to travel into space, Yuri Gagarin

Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit the Earth aboard Vostok 1 manned spacecraft on 12 April 1961.

The Soviet space program achieved many of the first milestones, including the first living being in orbit in 1957, the first human spaceflight ( Yuri Gagarin aboard Vostok 1 ) in 1961, the first spacewalk ( by Aleksei Leonov ) in 1965, the first automatic landing on another celestial body in 1966, and the launch of the first space station ( Salyut 1 ) in 1971.

The flight took Yuri Gagarin, a cosmonaut from the Soviet Union, into space.

27-year-old Yuri Gagarin was the only crew member of Vostok 1.

Electrocardiogram of Yuri Gagarin | Gagarin recorded April 11, 1961, at 19 hours and 35 minutes.

Yuri Gagarin in Vostok 1

In front of this is a 3 meter tall, white stone statue of Yuri Gagarin, wearing a spacesuit, with one arm raised in greeting and the other holding a space helmet.

Ryder has one full sibling, a younger brother, Uri ( named in honor of the first Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin ), and two half siblings from her mother's prior marriage: an older half-brother, Jubal Palmer ; and an older half-sister, Sunyata Palmer.

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (; 9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968 ) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut.

Yuri Gagarin was born in the village of Klushino near Gzhatsk ( renamed Gagarin in 1968 after his death ), ( now in Smolensk Oblast, Russia ), on 9 March 1934.

In 1960, after much searching and a selection process, Yuri Gagarin was chosen with 19 other pilots for the Soviet space program.

A postcard with an image of Yuri Gagarin

On 1 August 1971, Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin left the Fallen Astronaut on the surface of the Moon as a memorial to all the American astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts that died in the Space Race, with Yuri Gagarin listed among 14 others.

In March 1994, the team at Dubna led by the late Yuri Lazerev announced the detection of 3 atoms of < sup > 267 </ sup > Hs from the 5n neutron evaporation channel.

In March 2001 Russian Independent Television NTV interviewed a previously unknown grandson living in Novokuznetsk, Yuri Davydov, who stated that his father had told him of his lineage, but, was told to keep quiet because of the campaign against Stalin's cult of personality.

* Obituary, NY Times, 28 March 1968 Yuri Gagarin Killed As Test Plane Falls

* March 31 – Yuri Knorozov, Russian linguist and epigrapher ( b. 1922 )

* March 27 – Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut, first human in space ( b. 1934 )

* March 4 – Mongol invasion of Rus – Battle of the Sit River: The Mongol Hordes of Batu Khan defeat the Rus ' under Yuri Vsevolodovich of Vladimir-Suzdal.

It was delivered to Kennedy Space Center ( KSC ) on March 25, 1979, and was first launched on April 12, 1981 — the 20th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's space flight — with a crew of two.

The major attempt made by Inäzor Purgaz from Arzamas in January 1229 was repulsed, but after the death of Yuri II on March 4, 1238 at the Battle of Sit River the Mongols occupied the fortress and the remnants of small Nizhny Novgorod settlement which surrendered without any resistance in order to preserve what had been developed since Purgaz's attack nine years earlier.

On March 22, 2005 the city of Honjō and the towns of Chōkai, Higashiyuri, Iwaki, Nishime, Ōuchi, Yashima and Yuri merged to form the new city of Yurihonjō.

State Duma member Yuri Shchekochikhin filed two motions for a parliamentary investigation of the events, but the motions were rejected by the Duma in March 2000.

Yuri Lonchakov participates in a spacewalk on 10 March 2009.

* Yuri Balashov ( born March 12, 1949 ), chess grandmaster

From October 31, 2000 to March 21, 2001, he and Russian cosmonauts Yuri Gidzenko and Sergey Krikalev served as Expedition 1, the first crew stationed at the ISS.

Yuri Yankelevich ( Russian: Юрий Исаевич Янкелевич ) ( March 7, 1909 – September 22, 1973 )< ref >

* March 27 – The first person to orbit the earth, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, is killed in the crash of a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15

Yuri Pavlovich Gidzenko (; born March 26, 1962 ) is a Russian cosmonaut.

He is a Russian Air Force Colonel and cosmonaut of Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, was born March 5, 1953, in Krasny Sulin.

Yuri Razuvaev ( also Razuvayev ; 10 October 1945 – 21 March 2012 ) was a Russian chess player and trainer.

Yuri II (), also known as George II of Vladimir or Georgy II Vsevolodovich ( 11894 March 1238 ), was the fourth Grand Prince of Vladimir ( 1212 – 1216, 1218 – 1238 ) who presided over Vladimir-Suzdal at the time of the Mongol invasion of Russia.

Yuri himself was killed on 4 March 1238, in the Battle of the Sit River, whereby vast Mongol hordes defeated the army of Vladimir-Suzdal.