Gagarin is located in Russia (Smolensk Oblast) and time zone Europe/Moscow.
Places nearby are Sychëvka, Shakhovskaya and Vyaz’ma.
Moscow is 211 km away, Saint Petersburg is 611 km away and Nizhniy Novgorod is 725 km away as the crow flies.
Distances from Gagarin to the most important cities in Russia and the world.
55.5532900°
34.9968400°
Soviet cosmonaut and first human in space (1934–1968)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_GagarinTown in Smolensk Oblast, Russia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gagarin,_Smolensk_OblastLaunch site at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gagarin's_Start