50 years ago, August 18, 1971, the opening of a monument to Yuri Gagarin took place in the star town. The event was timed to the Day of Aviation, because the first cosmonaut of the planet, like most of his colleagues, were directly related to the summer case.
The authors of the monument – the sculptor Boris Dügzhech and architect Alexander Zavarzin – tried to escape from the heroization of the image of Yuri Gagarin and focus on his simplicity, charm, that is, to show the astronaut as he was in ordinary life.
Monument set at the house where Yuri Alekseevich lived together with his family. The figure of the cosmonaut is deployed by the face to the CPK, as if he left the house to work. When the trees around were still low, the wife of the pero astronaut Valentina Ivanov could see a monument from the back from the apartment window. In the hand of Gagarin – chamomile. They say he went out in the morning into the courtyard for charging, and returned with daisies for his wife.
At the foot of the monument always live flowers. Dates associated with joyful and tragic events in the fate of Yuri Gagarin, important events in the history of domestic cosmonautics, solemn meetings of crews after flights are united by astronauts, CPC staff, representatives of the administration of the municipality and the residents of the Star Town.
On the day of the 50th anniversary of the opening of the monument to Yuri Gagarin, they again gathered here to honor the memory of the planet’s first astronaut, and now the authors of the monument, which became the main symbol of the Star Town.