Soviet Army song and dance ensemble performs in Moscow, Russia. Song and dance ensemble posters in Russian. Officers discuss about the performances in the ensemble. Boris Alexandrovich Alexandrov, Soviet composer and director of the Soviet Army ensemble, talks during a meeting. The Soviet Army song and dance ensemble performs before a large audience at the Moscow Theater. Soviet dancers and singers performing on stage. The audience applauds.
A welcome for Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in Moscow, Russia after his successful first voyage into space by a human, orbiting the earth in his Vostok spacecraft. Yuri Gagarin arrives at an airfield in Moscow. Premier of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev greets Gagarin. A large crowd holds pictures and banners. Gagarin reports to Premier Khrushchev. The Premier greets and congratulates Gagarin . Then Gagarin greets his wife. Gagarin and the Premier move through the streets in a motorcade as people of Moscow, Russia, line the streets to cheer his achievement. A helicopter showers flowers on the motorcade, celebrating the Russian achievement during "space race" between the Soviet Union and the United States.