Gagarin. Myths and the truth about the first cosmonaut

To the 60th anniversary of the first flight of a person into space!
The name of Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin is inscribed in the history of gold. His famous "went!" It opened a new cosmic era for humanity. His smile conquered the whole world. And the tragic death at the age of 34 did not leave anyone indifferent ... Why was the fate of an ordinary Russian guy from under Gzhatsk so unusually? How was Yuri Gagarin elected for the greatest feat of the 20th century? And what is its main secret, which historians and biographers argue about to this day? In those 8 minutes of flight, when no one knew whether the first person could return from orbit? In classified accidents and disasters, through which you had to go on the way to the stars? In a happy setting of circumstances that preceded the first start of a person into space? Or in the words of the great Isaac Newton: "We are all on the shoulders of the titans"? After all, the flight of Gagarin became possible only thanks to the titanic work of millions of Soviet people and the genius of such colosses as Korolev and Keldysh, Glushko and