Yuri Gagarin - Cosmonaut-1

The author - the renowned pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union Mikhail Vasilyevich Vodopyanov 1899-1980 - tells about the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, with whom he was personally acquainted. From this book, written on documentary material, the reader will learn interesting facts about the childhood and youth of Yuri Alexeyevich, about how a simple Russian boy had a dream to visit space and how he was able to realize this dream. The stories are published with slight abbreviations. In honor of the 60th anniversary of the first human flight into space. For junior school age.