In his diary, Nikolai Kamanin recorded that the Soyuz 1 capsule crashed into the ground at 30–40 m/s and that the remains of Komarov's body were an irregular lump 30 cm in diameter and 80 cm long.
Three hours after the capsule's crash, Keldysh, Tyulin, Rudenko, and other State Commission members visited the site.
At 21:45 Kamanin accompanied Komarov's remains to the Orsk aerodrome, where they were loaded on an Il-18.
Ten minutes before departure an An-12 landed with Kuznetsov and several cosmonauts.
Kamanin's aircraft arrived in Moscow in the early hours of the next morning.
The aircraft had to divert to Sheremetyevo since all the other airfields around Moscow were closed to takeoffs or landings due to weather.
The orders were that Komarov's remains were to be photographed, then immediately cremated so that a state burial in the Kremlin wall could take place.
The remains underwent a quick autopsy that morning, then were cremated.

On 25 April, a response to Komarov's death by his fellow cosmonauts was published in Pravda:
"For the forerunners it is always more difficult.
They tread the unknown paths and these paths are not straight, they have sharp turns, surprises and dangers.
But anyone who takes the pathway into orbit never wants to leave it.
And no matter what difficulties or obstacles there are, they are never strong enough to deflect such a man from his chosen path.
While his heart beats in his chest, a cosmonaut will always continue to challenge the universe.
Vladimir Komarov was one of the first on this treacherous path."

When interviewed on 17 May by the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, Yuri Gagarin alluded to the failure of the administration to listen to the concerns about the Soyuz module that the cosmonaut corps had identified, and maintained that Komarov's death should teach the establishment to be more rigorous in its testing and evaluation of "all the mechanisms of the spaceship, even more attentive to all stages of checking and testing, even more vigilant in our encounter with the unknown.
He has shown us how dangerous the pathway to space is.
His flight and his death will teach us courage."
In May 1967, Gagarin and Leonov criticised program head Vasily Mishin's "poor knowledge of the Soyuz spacecraft and the details of its operation, his lack of cooperation in working with the cosmonauts in flight and training activities," and asked Kamanin to cite him in the official crash report.

After Komarov's death, the communications systems on board all Soviet spacecraft were modified because Komarov's voice transmissions from Soyuz 1 had blocked its telemetry signals.

In Leo de Boer's 2000 documentary The Red Stuff, Alexei Leonov noted the profound effect that Komarov's death had on the morale of the cosmonaut corps: "He was our friend.
Before his death the press and public had paid little attention to the extreme risks we took."
In his diary, Nikolai Kamanin recorded that the Soyuz 1 capsule crashed into the ground at 30–40 m/s and that the remains of Komarov's body were an irregular lump 30 cm in diameter and 80 cm long. Three hours after the capsule's crash, Keldysh, Tyulin, Rudenko, and other State Commission members visited the site. At 21:45 Kamanin accompanied Komarov's remains to the Orsk aerodrome, where they were loaded on an Il-18. Ten minutes before departure an An-12 landed with Kuznetsov and several cosmonauts. Kamanin's aircraft arrived in Moscow in the early hours of the next morning. The aircraft had to divert to Sheremetyevo since all the other airfields around Moscow were closed to takeoffs or landings due to weather. The orders were that Komarov's remains were to be photographed, then immediately cremated so that a state burial in the Kremlin wall could take place. The remains underwent a quick autopsy that morning, then were cremated.
On 25 April, a response to Komarov's death by his fellow cosmonauts was published in Pravda:
"For the forerunners it is always more difficult. They tread the unknown paths and these paths are not straight, they have sharp turns, surprises and dangers. But anyone who takes the pathway into orbit never wants to leave it. And no matter what difficulties or obstacles there are, they are never strong enough to deflect such a man from his chosen path. While his heart beats in his chest, a cosmonaut will always continue to challenge the universe. Vladimir Komarov was one of the first on this treacherous path."
When interviewed on 17 May by the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, Yuri Gagarin alluded to the failure of the administration to listen to the concerns about the Soyuz module that the cosmonaut corps had identified, and maintained that Komarov's death should teach the establishment to be more rigorous in its testing and evaluation of "all the mechanisms of the spaceship, even more attentive to all stages of checking and testing, even more vigilant in our encounter with the unknown. He has shown us how dangerous the pathway to space is. His flight and his death will teach us courage." In May 1967, Gagarin and Leonov criticised program head Vasily Mishin's "poor knowledge of the Soyuz spacecraft and the details of its operation, his lack of cooperation in working with the cosmonauts in flight and training activities," and asked Kamanin to cite him in the official crash report.
After Komarov's death, the communications systems on board all Soviet spacecraft were modified because Komarov's voice transmissions from Soyuz 1 had blocked its telemetry signals.
In Leo de Boer's 2000 documentary The Red Stuff, Alexei Leonov noted the profound effect that Komarov's death had on the morale of the cosmonaut corps: "He was our friend. Before his death the press and public had paid little attention to the extreme risks we took."
Vladimir Komarov