In the true movie "k 19", the captain said Yuri was given credit after the first Russian astronaut to orbit the earth, died because of a failure in his life support system.
Yuri Shaporin died on December 9, 1966, in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia].
Yuri Gagarin was a Soviet cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on April 12, 1961. This historic spaceflight made him an international hero and a symbol of Soviet space achievement during the Space Race with the United States. Tragically, Gagarin died in a plane crash in 1968 at the age of 34.
Yuri German died on January 16, 1967, in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia].
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was born on 9 March 1934 - and died on 27 March 1968. He was the first human in outer space and the first to orbit the Earth.
In 1961, Major Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Air Force was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. He and his Vostok capsule completed almost-but-not-quite one orbit of the Earth, and touched down on land several miles short of the launch site at 108 minutes after launch. Gagarin toured the USSR and the world as a space hero, was never launched again, and died in the crash of a small trainer aircraft several years later.
Yuri Andropov died on February 9, 1984 at the age of 69.
Yuri Senkevich died on September 23, 2003 at the age of 66.
Yuri Vyshinsky died in 1983.
Yuri Lukin died in 1998.
Yuri Danilov died in 1937.
Yuri Tregubov died in 2000.
Yuri Linnik died in 1972.