Lavrov's Address On 60th Anniversary of Gagarin's Flight Into Space

Video address by Sergey Lavrov on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight into space.

On April 12, 1961, a citizen of Russia, Yuri Gagarin, for the first time in human history, orbited the Earth in a manned spacecraft.

The significance of this breakthrough into near-earth space cannot be overestimated. The launch of the Vostok spacecraft ushered in a new era in the centuries-long chronicle of civilisation.