Valentina Ivanovna Gagarina (Russian: Валенти́на Ива́новна Гага́рина,[1][2] née Goryacheva; December 15, 1935 – March 17, 2020) was the wife of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.

The fame reached his family too; they were often photographed, shown on TV, interviewed, they were visited by different famous people of those years: politicians, cosmonauts, artists, singers.

On April 14, 1961, she was captured in photos and video footage sitting next to Yuri Gagarin and Nikita Khrushchev in an open-top car that drove through the streets of Moscow, surrounded by cheering crowds of Moscovites.

[12] In 1976 she gave Yuri Gagarin's personal belongings to the museum: full dress jacket, all the awards and documents, presents, special editions of Pravda, Izvestiya, Red Star, Sovetskaya Kultura, Literaturnaya Gazeta, Moskovsky Komsomolets of April 12–13, 1961.

She lived in Zvezdny Gorodok in Shchelkovsky district of Moscow region, in the apartment which Gagarin received in March 1968 .