Gagarin the first man in space died in a plane crash. See here footage from his funeral in 1968.

No title. Funeral of Russian spaceman / cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, Moscow (USSR, Soviet Union).



L/S crowds queuing up outside Central House of the Soviet Army to file past urns of ashes of Yuri Gagarin and V.S. Seregin (test pilot killed in same air crash as Gagarin). Angle shot pan ditto.



Interior L/S the urns surrounded by flowers and pictures of the two men. C/U picture of Yuri. C/U picture of V.S. Seregin. M/S President Leonid Brezhnev and Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin. C/U other astronauts. M/S Gagarin's widow, Valentina Gagarin, and children being comforted by woman astronaut Valentina Tereschkova. C/U ditto.



Exterior L/S the funeral procession coming through Red Square. C/U urns on gun carriage. L/S wreaths carried by soldiers coming behind. L/S the procession. M/S ditto. C/U mourners walking behind. L/S as urn is carried to the Kremlin wall. M/S ditto. M/S as urn is placed in niche in the wall. C/U people watching. M/S pictures of the two men below the niches where the urns are.




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