Clip of the Week - Yuri Gagarin visits Manchester, 1961

Rare footage of Soviet cosmonaut and first human in space, Yuri Gagarin, visiting Manchester in 1961. Awarded with his nation's highest accolades, he became an international celebrity and had his birth town named in his honour.
Click through see the rest of this film in the Bridgeman Footage archive: bit.ly/1igyfuC

[@anoplolepisgracilipes]

I heard someone on CZcams that’s already in his 80s said “I seen Gagarin in Manchester, England and I was standing at the round about and I saw him when he passed by”

[@user-uh8sk1jn9y]

Какая красота у Юрия Гагарина во всем! ❤Как жаль,что он покинул Землю таким молодым…😢
Слава Герою! 🙏

[@Zeusdattilo]

The World was one form Yuri Gagarin.
After so many years I like to see how Gagarin was friendly and smilling and it's touching to see how is warmly welcomed in Britain and all over the world even during the cold war. People were amazed by great human enterprise. No matter where he is was from.
The world would be one. Maybe he knew it because he had the chance to look at the Earth from his Vostok.
A great man.

[@user-up3lf6wv3s]

Молодцы! Спасибо!
Ваши будут знать...Наши--знать,помнить и гордиться.

[@user-ib4vp4tb6e]

The interpreter's job was brilliant!

[@ronanrogers4127]

Brilliant video, look at the adoring crowds greeting a true hero...what bravery to go into space before anyone else. I’ve seen the magnificent statue of Gagarin in Moscow, it’s stunning and he is entirely deserving of it, and more recently the commemorative stamps upon the 50th anniversary.

[@vivalaquincebrigada]

Thanks for posting this footage. Gagarin was a fine ambassador for the USSR as well as being a brave and modest human being.

[@liamgleesonjnr.3600]

Perhaps the 9th March should become Yuri Gargarin Day. What better way for the world to remember this brilliant and wonderful person!

[@alexiscortes83]

Así es...la humildad de Gagarin conmueve.

[@alexiscortes83]

Bello archivo. Greetings from chile. Слава Гагарин!

[@BumsnotDead]

Gagarin became a symbol of spacecraft. He is the greatest astronaut of all times.

[@MadderMel]

Yeah ! This is great !

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