RT reported that on March 27, the Russian State Museum published the first photos of the location where the world's first space traveler Yuri Gagarin passed away.
Yuri Gagarin - a pioneer in space - died in a plane crash 55 years ago along with Vladimir Seregin - a famous flight guide pilot and veteran of World War 2.
The two were flying a Mig-15UTI training aircraft when it crashed on March 27, 1968 in Russia's Vladimir Zone on a regular flight.
Both died at the scene, the plane broke up when it crashed. The official cause of the plane crash has never been officially announced, leading to various theories, from pilot error or collision with a hot air balloon to the involvement of KGB and even a clash with UFO.
Previously unpublished photos taken by the investigation committee the following day show debris from the plane lying scattered at the crash site but they hardly shed any light on the tragic death of the worlds first space traveler.
The son of a carpenter and a dairy farmer during the German occupation, Gagarin was trained as a steel worker before becoming a military pilot.
Then, at the age of 27, Gagarin had a historic 108-minute flight in space when his Vostok spacecraft completed a revolution around the Earth.
In 2011, 50 years after the day Gagarin flew into space, Russia published more than 700 pages of documents about Gagarin, revealing that the weather on March 27, 1968 (the day he died) was very complicated and the replacement moves performed by Gagarin or the pilots put the plane in a dangerous situation.
