On April 12, 1961, exactly 60 years ago, the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on the Vostok-1 spacecraft took off from the Baikonur cosmodrome and made an orbital flyby of planet Earth for the first time in the world. The flight in near-earth space lasted 108 minutes.

In the history of humanity, the first flight into space is the greatest event - breakthrough into another dimension. Aviation and Cosmonautics Day is a triumph of reason, strength and courage of humankind. These qualities contributed to the completion of the first manned flight into space.
Decades and centuries will pass, a man will land on other planets, leaving the space system, much will be erased in the memory of humankind, but the name of Yuri Gagarin, who for the first time overcame earthly gravity and escaped into space, will forever remain in the history of earthly civilization.