19/04/2022
A state commission was set up to investigate the catastrophe, but even after months of work by hundreds of specialists, the commission was unable to unambiguously explain the causes of the tragedy. As a result, the commission's report was classified and its details are known only from articles and interviews with individual members. To date, the causes and circumstances of the disaster are unclear. There are several conflicting versions of the event.
Before flying into space, Gagarin wrote a farewell letter - in case he dies. This letter was handed to his wife after his death near Kirzhach.
Nationwide mourning was declared in the USSR. This was the first time in the history of the USSR that a day of mourning was declared in the event of the death of a person who was not the current head of state at the time of death.
Urns with the ashes of Gagarin and Seryogin are walled up in the Kremlin wall [12].
The astronaut's name is immortalized in the sculpture "Fallen Astronaut" on the Moon