I tell from the words of a friend from the Star City, confirmed by a couple of technical publications that came to me later.

Gagarin to send into space was very hasty - in a few weeks, an American ship was to launch, even suborbital, but still into space. By the time of our launch, the soft parachute landing system turned out to be raw – on the last kilometers of the descent Gagarin had to cascading to leave the heated lander and jump out with a parachute, and without any catapult – a feat that did not repeat subsequently any of the subsequent hundreds of cosmonauts and astronauts. In addition, the rocket itself was not refined - to put it simply, the place where the astronaut would fall was known with an accuracy of up to a thousand kilometers. Therefore, for the first and last time in the history of cosmonautics, the descent was planned in a relatively densely populated area, in the Saratov region, in order not to look for a cosmonaut throughout the country. Of course, the designers were offended by all these shortcomings - they were driven by the leading party, and therefore the details of the most interesting final part of the flight of thirty years remained blurred, and even now few people know about them.

And it was all simple – grandmother Anna Akimovna from the village Smilovka went out before lunch to walk into the yard with granddaughter Rita and saw a little man in a strange orange suit with an open helmet wandering through her garden. When asked where he came from, the man replied that he was from space and himself laughed at his ridiculous version. The mysterious man explained that his ration remained in the descending apparatus, who fell, the hell knows where, and the straps of his parachute he cut off in the field. Then he asked how to get to the center. A successful search and rescue expedition at the entrance of the cellar found Anna Akimovna's carefully folded orange scavenger, and the cosmonaut himself - at the table in the company of mechanizers who ran. Gagarin joyfully wrapped the creams with cream and smiled happily.