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      🏛 Gagarin Monument on Leninsky Prospekt

      пл. Гагарина, Ленинский пр-т

      A 42-metre column with a titanium Gagarin who seems to take off above the square — the road he drove into Moscow along after his flight.

      Gagarin Monument on Leninsky Prospekt
      © Kemal KOZBAEV · CC BY-SA 4.0
      • Unveiled on 4 July 1980, for the Olympics; the sculptor is Pavel Bondarenko.
      • The monument is 42.5 metres tall, and the figure is cast from titanium alloy.
      • At its foot is a copy of the descent module of the Vostok spacecraft.
      • On 14 April 1961 Gagarin drove along Leninsky Prospekt from Vnukovo to the Kremlin; until 1960 the Moscow city boundary ran here.

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