tamara dmitrievna shows where gagarin’s path to the stars began with a small peasant hut in the smolinskuring the period of the german occupation, he and his family huddled in a dugout for a year and a half. one day, one of the fascists, nicknamed the devil, hung his younger brother borya from an apple tree, and if not for yuri, he could have died. yura saw it, flew into the dugout, shouting, mom, the devil hung up the fight. walked away, pushed him away, grabbed boris, they flew into the dugout, locked themselves in, didn’t come out for several days, cosmonauts still come to this small village of klushino, to drink water from the gagarin well, for good luck before the flight, oleg novitsky was there several times. it’s much easier for us, since we are already following a well-trodden path; it was this first flight that gave us the opportunity to understand that a person can go into near-winter space and perform low-earth orbit. some kind of work. after the flight, gagarin is the most famous person in the world. he is greeted by thousands of people in india and treated to sushi in japan.