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.
Russian crowd at airfield greeting cosmonaut Major Yuri Gagarin after his successful space flight from the Soviet Union. Premier Nikita Khrushchev is on hand. Children present flowers to Major Gagarin. Premier Khrushchev and Major Gagarin inspects formation of troops. Crowd surrounds Major Gagarin. Premier Khrushchev and Major Gagarin leave by car and drive through streets celebrating the cold war accomplishment by the Soviet Union during the so called "space race" against NASA astronauts in the United States.
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.
The Russians welcome their Space Hero Yuri Gagarin on his return to Moscow after orbiting the Earth, during the so-called "space race" between the United States and the Soviet Union. A Russian plane in Moscow. Large crowds with posters of Yuri Gagarin. He gets off the plane and is welcomed by Nikita Khrushchev. Yuri salutes him and both of them hug. The Major takes homage atop Lenin's Tomb in the Red Square. Crowds cheer to welcome
Red crowds celebrate May Day in Moscow. Guest of Honor, Yuri Gagarin reviews parade. Women parade. Rocket balloon launched in Yuri Gagarin's space visit. Yuri Gagarin waves to a huge crowd. Decorative floats on road. Portraits of Fidel Castro on the decorated floats.
Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin is given a welcome ceremony in Moscow, after he became the first human to voyage into outer space. From a Russian newsreel with English narration, created during the "Space Race" between the United States and the Soviet Union. Yuri Gagarin arrives by an Aeroflot plane (CCCP-757) at a Moscow airfield. Premier of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev, greets Gagarin. A huge crowd holds pictures and banners of Gagarin and Khrushchev. Gagarin reports to Premier Khrushchev that he has fulfilled his mission and feels well and ready for his next assignment. Gagarin greets his wife, Valentina Gagarina. He moves in a car through crowd filled streets. At a ceremony in the Kremlin Premier Khrushchev and Defense Minister Marshal of the Soviet Union Rodion Malinovsky congratulate Gagarin and award him the title "Hero of the Soviet Union".