Yelena Yurievna Gagarina (russian: Еле́на Ю́рьевна Гага́рина; born 17 April 1959,

Zapolyarny, Murmansk Oblast Zapolyarny (russian: Заполя́рный; no, Zapoljarnyj) is a town in Pechengsky District of Murmansk Oblast, Russia, located on the Kola Peninsula, northeast of the Kola Superdeep Borehole project. Population: The area where the town ...

RSFSR The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR or RSFSR ( rus, Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, Rossíyskaya Sovétskaya Federatívnaya Soci ...

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) is a Soviet and Russian art historian. She is the General Director of the State historical and cultural Museum-reserve

Moscow Kremlin Museums Moscow Kremlin Museums (Russian ''Музеи Московского Кремля'', MMK or ''Государственный историко-культурный музей-заповедник «Московский Кремль»'') is a maj ...

(since 2001), and the eldest daughter of the first

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Yuri Gagarin Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin; Gagarin's first name is sometimes transliterated as ''Yuriy'', ''Youri'', or ''Yury''. (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space. Tr ...

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Career

Gagarina graduated from

MSU Faculty of History The Faculty of History is one of the faculties of the Moscow State University. Established at 1934 on the base of the Historical-philological faculty of the university. The dean of the faculty was Sergey Karpov (since 1995 to 2018). History The f ...

; her specialty is the history of art. She has been a member of the Commission of the Russian Federation for

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since 16 March 2005. In 2014, she signed a Collective appeal of cultural figures of the Russian Federation in support of the policy of President

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and

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Personal life

Gagarina is the daughter of the

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cosmonaut,

. She grew up in Zvyozdny gorodok, the space training facility known as Star City. American immigrant Anna Gagarina is a granddaughter of Yuri's younger brother Boris, and so is the daughter of Yelena's cousin.

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1959 births Living people People from Pechengsky District Directors of museums in Russia Women museum directors Soviet art historians Russian art historians Russian women historians Yuri Gagarin Moscow Kremlin 20th-century Russian historians 21st-century Russian historians Academic staff of Moscow State University Honorary Members of the Russian Academy of Arts Commanders of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic Officiers of the Légion d'honneur Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class Curators from Moscow {{art-historian-stub