Monument to Yuriy Gagarin

Yuri Gagarin statue in London

The 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's UK visit was marked by the unveiling of an aluminium statue of Gagarin, an exact copy of the one outside Lyubertsy Technical School number 10 where Gagarin started his training as a foundryman. The statue, a gift from the Russian federal space agency Roscosmos to the British Council, is located outside the British Council Offices in London but only for one year.

Yuri Gagarin statue unveiled in Greenwich

A statue of the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, has been unveiled at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. The monument is a replica of a statue in Lyubertsy where the cosmonaut trained as a foundry worker before he joined the air force. VoR's Tim Walklate went along to the ceremony.

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00:01:19 1 Early life and education
00:03:49 2 Soviet Air Force
00:04:44 3 Soviet space program
00:04:54 3.1 Selection and training
00:08:14 3.2 Vostok 1
00:11:42 4 After the Soviet space program
00:15:40 5 Death
00:16:14 5.1 Cause of jet crash
00:21:01 6 Personal life
00:22:02 7 Legacy and tributes
00:22:12 7.1 Legacy
00:23:33 7.2 Tributes
00:28:13 7.2.1 Statues
00:30:36 7.2.2 50th anniversary
00:31:44 7.3 Honours and awards
00:37:24 8 See also



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Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin  (Russian: Ю́рий Алексе́евич Гага́рин, IPA: [ˈjʉrʲɪj ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ ɡɐˈɡarʲɪn]; 9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He became the first human to journey into outer space when his Vostok spacecraft completed one orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961.
Gagarin became an international celebrity and was awarded many medals and titles, including Hero of the Soviet Union, his nation's highest honour. Vostok 1 was his only spaceflight, but he served as the backup crew to the Soyuz 1 mission, which ended in a fatal crash. Gagarin later served as the deputy training director of the Cosmonaut Training Centre outside Moscow, which was subsequently named after him. Gagarin died in 1968 when the MiG-15 training jet he was piloting crashed. The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale awards the Yuri A. Gagarin Gold Medal in his honour.

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00:01:20 1 Early life and education
00:03:48 2 Soviet Air Force service
00:05:59 3 Soviet space program
00:06:09 3.1 Selection and training
00:09:49 3.2 Vostok 1
00:13:45 4 After the Vostok 1 flight
00:18:44 5 Honours and awards
00:19:45 6 Personal life
00:20:43 7 Death
00:25:34 8 Legacy
00:26:46 8.1 Tributes
00:31:26 8.2 Statues
00:33:39 8.3 50th anniversary
00:34:51 9 See also



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- Socrates


SUMMARY
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Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin  (Russian: Ю́рий Алексе́евич Гага́рин, IPA: [ˈjʉrʲɪj ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ ɡɐˈɡarʲɪn]; 9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet Air Forces pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space, achieving a major milestone in the Space Race; his capsule Vostok 1 completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961. Gagarin became an international celebrity and was awarded many medals and titles, including Hero of the Soviet Union, his nation's highest honour.
Vostok 1 was Gagarin's only spaceflight but he served as the backup crew to the Soyuz 1 mission, which ended in a fatal crash, killing his friend and fellow cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov. Gagarin later served as the deputy training director of the Cosmonaut Training Centre, which was subsequently named after him. Gagarin died in 1968 when the MiG-15 training jet he was piloting crashed. The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale awards the Yuri A. Gagarin Gold Medal in his honour.