"Moscow time 10: 55, Yuri? Gagarin completed the flight around the earth in 109 minutes, successfully ejected the spacecraft at an altitude of 7,000 meters and landed on the cultivated land of the' Lenin Road' collective farm near Smelov Ka Village in Engel District on the left bank of the Volga River. " The old local newspaper also reported that potatoes were being planted on this cultivated land at that time. There is a passage in the pamphlet Meeting with Gagarin published by Engels Municipal Government on 200 1: "Barley planting ends at 1 1, and wheat planting begins at night." However, the old residents of Smelov Card said: This land has never been planted, nor has it been planted, because there are gullies everywhere.
Landed in a secret missile camp.
"I am most afraid of falling into the Volga River." After Gagarin landed, he told Jamiyan, then president of the Rocket School of the Air Defense Force? Smilje witz said. If Gagarin did land at the site of the monument, then because it is more than 20 kilometers away from the river, Gagarin has no reason to worry-he parachuted in this area. When the return capsule entered the atmosphere, the shell began to burn. Historian b? Kovliar described, "The astronauts ejected at an altitude of 7000 meters. When it is less than 1000 meters from the ground, Gagarin will realize that he may fall into the cold river, so he begins to throw away his heavy objects: radio, first-aid medicine box, toolbox ... in order to reach the river bank. "
Actually, Gagarin landed in another place. Near the village of Podgonne on the Volga River, which is 0/5 km away from Gagarin Monument/Kloc-0, there is the ruins of an original air defense missile battalion. After Gagarin landed, he called kuibyshev from here. Missile Battalion/KLOC-disbanded 0/0 years ago. Today, this once top-secret strategic facility presents a bleak and dilapidated scene. Local residents raised chickens in the former soldiers' bathrooms and herded cattle beside the missile silo. The reporter rushed to the 402 18 unit, and a major officer received us and told the story I heard from the retired officers of the Ministry. The secret about the missile battalion of Gagarin's landing department was only released 10 years ago. Everyone knows this, and all the new and old officers and men in the army understand it.
The sentry questioned Gagarin.
There is a popular saying that Gagarin saw an ordinary collective farm woman for the first time. Taktarova and her granddaughter Rita. Talova does exist, but they are not the first people to see Gagarin. According to the information inside the missile force, the situation is like this.
On the day Gagarin landed, Private A? Sopletsev was ordered to observe the "container" falling from the sky with a telescope on the tower. He was the first to find the astronaut's parachute and ran to its landing site. According to the records of the museum, a? Major Gasiyev was the first officer to find the landing point of the spacecraft landing device.
"Your certificate?" This is the first sentence Gagarin heard after landing, and it was asked by Private Soperetsev. This is because a foreign reconnaissance plane U-2 was shot down over the Urals of the former Soviet Union a year ago, so the officers and men of the army were very vigilant to prevent spies from airborne. Not long after asking questions in the first class, a chariots came. Some members of the collective farm also came to watch the fun. Among the first people to arrive were Takhtarova and her granddaughter.
The reporter confirmed this statement from a female librarian. She has been collecting information about Gagarin for years.
Gagarin landed at the junction of the missile battalion and the village. Next to the landing site is an arsenal called "Signal"; The missile battalion has missiles with the latest technology ... The relevant personnel know that journalists, including foreign journalists, will soon flock to it, so it is necessary to move the landing site further as soon as possible. The son of a soldier serving in a missile battalion said: "My father said that on the fourth day after landing, he and several comrades left the camp by car for a few kilometers and buried a stake in an invisible place in the camp as the landing place of Gagarin. There is a monument there now. "
Gagarin monument
After the first space flight 10 years, that is, three years after Gagarin's death, the relevant departments decided to build a monument for him. The location is that the soldiers of the missile battalion are buried in a stake that says "Don't move". There was a tender for the monument, and there were various design schemes at that time. Sculptor vasiliev recalled: "... city officials photographed a rocket-shaped light frame." My teacher Matveyeva finished the statue. Once, I went to see my teacher and saw her painting clay on human bones. What kind of facial expressions should be given to astronauts? When she saw me leave, she immediately asked me to stand next to the statue and pose as a statue, with a small rice cooker in my elbow instead of a helmet. Later, Gagarin's mother came. When she saw the lifelike Gagarin statue, she couldn't help kneeling in front of the statue and muttering to herself,' Honey, you are here, it's really like ...' "