Memorial at the site of the deaths of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and Vladimir Seregin
The memorial complex was opened in the Kirzhachsky district in 1975 in memory of the tragic deaths of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and test pilot Vladimir Seregin.
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Memorial at the site of the deaths of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and Vladimir Seregin
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The memorial complex was opened in the Kirzhachsky district in 1975 in memory of the tragic deaths of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and test pilot Vladimir Seregin.
On March 27, 1968, during a training flight near the village of Novoselovo, Kirzhachsky district, Heroes of the Soviet Union, first cosmonaut Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin and test pilot Vladimir Sergeyevich Seregin, died.
The memorial complex, erected seven years after the tragic death of the pilots, is a 16-meter stele with portraits of Yuri Gagarin and V.S.Seregin carved on it. Next to it is a MIG-15, a replica of the aircraft operated by the pilots.
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