Token - Yuri Gagarin ND

Reverse

Russian MiG-15UTI.

Lettering:
№ 07
27 марта 1968 год
деревня Новоселово
Владимирская обл.
СПМД
Ag 925

Translation:
27 March 1968
The village Novoselovo
The Vladimir region
SPMD
Ag 925

Edge

Reeded

Comment

On 27 March 1968, while on a routine training flight from Chkalovsky Air Base, he and flight instructor Vladimir Seryogin died in a MiG-15UTI crash near the town of Kirzhach. The bodies of Gagarin and Seryogin were cremated and the ashes were buried in the walls of the Kremlin on Red Square.