who was he married to?
Valentina Goryacheva
Yuri Gagarin
 Gagarin met Valentina Goryacheva at the May Day celebrations at the Red Square in Moscow. She was a medical technician who had graduated from Orenburg Medical School. They were married on 7 November of the same year, the same day Gagarin graduated from his flight school, and they had two daughters. 
how many times did the first russian orbit the earth One who is yuri gagarin? A Soviet Air Forces pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space. when was this mission carried out? Vostok 1, the spaceflight carrying Yuri Gagarin was launched on April 12, 1961. any medals or awards conferred to him? The Soviet Academy of Sciences awarded him with the Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Gold Medal;  the 1960 Gold Air Medal and the 1961 De la Vaulx Medal from the "Fédération Aéronautique Internationale" in Switzerland;  first Commander of the Order of Playa Girón medal from Cuba among many others.He was bestowed the Order of Lenin, Order of the Nile, Order of Karl Marx etc. as well.
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Yuri Gagarin [SEP] Personal life
Gagarin was a keen sportsman and played ice hockey as a goalkeeper. He was also a basketball fan and coached the Saratov Industrial Technical School team, as well as being a referee. In 1957, while a cadet in flight school, Gagarin met Valentina Goryacheva at the May Day celebrations at the Red Square in Moscow. She was a medical technician who had graduated from Orenburg Medical School. They were married on 7 November of the same year, the same day Gagarin graduated from his flight school, and they had two daughters. Yelena Yurievna Gagarina, born 1959, is an art historian who has worked as the director-general of the Moscow Kremlin Museums since 2001; and Galina Yurievna Gagarina, born 1961, is a professor of economics and the department chair at Plekhanov Russian University of Economics in Moscow.