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The Monument to Yuri Gagarin is the world's first large-scale monument made of titanium. [2] [4] The figure of Gagarin is facing upward. The high ribbed pedestal is an important part of the composition and symbolizes the launch of the space rocket. [5] The inscription at the base of the monument reads (in Russian):
The Statue of Yuri Gagarin in Greenwich, London, is a zinc statue depicting the cosmonaut wearing a spacesuit and standing on top of a globe.The 3.5-metre (11 ft) high statue is a replica of an original by Anatoly Novikov in Lyubertsy, where Gagarin was trained as a foundry worker.
Monuments and memorials to Yuri Gagarin (1934 - 1968). Pages in category "Monuments and memorials to Yuri Gagarin" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.
Vostok 1 (Russian: Восток, lit. ' East ' or ' Orient ') was the first spaceflight of the Vostok programme and the first human orbital spaceflight in history. The Vostok 3KA space capsule was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome on 12 April 1961, with Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin aboard, making him the first human to reach orbital velocity around the Earth and to complete a full orbit ...
Moscow Soviet building, monument to Yury Dolgoruky: 5,000,000 (509,500 proof) 1980 1 ruble Games of the 22nd Olympiad in Moscow: Olympic Torch in Moscow 5,000,000 (509,500 proof) 1981 1 ruble 20th anniv. of the first human flight into space (USSR citizen Yuri Gagarin) Yuri Gagarin, Salyut station with two Soyuz spacecraft docked, dates: "1961 ...
On 4 June 1980, Monument to Yuri Gagarin in Gagarin Square, Leninsky Avenue, Moscow, was opened. [139] The monument is mounted to a 38 m (125 ft) tall pedestal and is constructed of titanium. Beside the column is a replica of the descent module used during his spaceflight. [140]
Korolev and Gagarin Monument (Russian: Памятник Королёву и Гагарину) is a bronze sculpture of Yuri Gagarin and Sergei Korolev by the sculptor O. Komov. It was installed in Taganrog on Chekhov Street in front of the building "A" of the Engineering and Technology Academy of the Southern Federal University .
Statue of Yuri Gagarin in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. A monument to fallen Soviet soldiers in Ivanovka , Ukraine . Warrior Liberator statue at the Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park , Berlin .