Yuri Gagarin after Return to Earth 3

Description

Yuri Gagarin after returning to Earth, photo; licensed item; Original: 5740×4315; Photographer: Unknown; license required; Rights: a9 Bleek/zb Media. The photo shows Yuri Gagarin shortly after his return to Earth on April 12, 1961, in a room of the Baikonur Space Center, while he talks on the phone with Nikita Khrushchev.
Scene: Gagarin is wearing an olive-green overall and a light green T-shirt, his face looks relieved and happy after his successful space flight.
Phone call with Khrushchev: He is holding the receiver of a fixed phone, while he reports to the Soviet leader about his historic flight.
Background: A simple room with functional furnishings in the Baikonur Cosmodrome, where the first conversations after landing took place.
The photo symbolizes the successful completion of the first manned space mission, Gagarin’s relief and pride, as well as the significance of this moment for the Soviet leadership and world space history.