The first cosmonaut, the secrets of his death

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The first cosmonaut, the secrets of his death

Written by Natascia

Monday, 11 April 2011 07:46

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On March 27, 1968, the stick of an airplane MiG-15 two-seat training, Soviet cosmonaut crashed with his shotgun in the Vladimir region northeast of Moscow. The accident, occurred at 7 years after his performance Yuri Gagarin on 12 April 1961, when he became the first man in space, has shocked public opinion, but the investigation that followed was classified as "state secret" by Soviet authorities, this status until it was canceled Friday after 43 years.

At the time when Russia celebrates 50 years since Gagarin's flight into space, a representative of the archives department of the Kremlin, Alexander Stepanov, read at a press conference a document extracted from the documents declassified by the conclusions of the investigation committee . "The committee's conclusions: analysis under circumstances in which the air accident investigation and the elements, the most likely cause of the disaster is a sudden maneuver (the pilot) to avoid an atmospheric probe," Stepanov said.
Another question, but "less likely", is that the Soviet pilot wanted "to avoid entering the cloud layer. A sign of the importance of the case, these conclusions were recorded in a decree of the Central Committee of Communist Party of the USSR, dated November 28, 1968, marked with the stamp "state secret". Maintaining secrecy over this case during the Soviet era has fueled rumors and assumptions of the most diverse Gagarin's death, which remains one of Russia's favorite heroes.
Some assumptions have evoked a second flight maneuvers that would be embarrassed unit MIG-15 piloted by Yuri Gagarin and others have talked about it a technical problem of the device. Conspiracy thesis advocates said that Yuri Gagarin would have been the victim of the KGB or other intelligence.
Others say that the famous astronaut, pilot of the aircraft band, much too busy for his national hero status and role play in propaganda for the Soviet Union, simply lost their level of qualification required to fly with such a device. Cancellation of state secret documents on the investigation should lead to the elimination of some of these questions.
Another representative of the Russian state, Deputy Director of State Archives in scientific, Larisa Uspenskaya, stressed that "over 200 documents and files were declassified, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of historic flight successful Gagarin.

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