...the intellectual and scientific might of our country and Soviet specialists’ audacity and top professionalism. Yury Gagarin was born in the village of Klushino, Gzhatsk District, the Smolensk Region, on March 9 1934. It was here that in 1941, in the midst of the Great Patriotic War, young Yury first saw Soviet airplanes on sorties to defend the homeland and began dreaming about flying. In 1954, while in industrial college, Gagarin enrolled in the Saratov flying club and made the final deci...