62nd anniversary of Gagarin’s voyage into space on the Vostok 1 space capsule.

Pay your respects to legendary Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first person to be sent into space.




Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was famously the first human in space and this achievement is recognised with this statue, depicting Gagarin in his spacesuit, standing astride the globe.




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