Legendary Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's rides in a car to the Communist Party's central committee or the OKB-1 rocket design bureau (now space corporation Energia) were classified, but still, traffic police officers might have occasionally guessed that he was inside the vehicle and gave their salutes, Isfat Minnizyanov, a former head of the cosmonaut training center's garage, who sometimes drove Gagarin's car, has said