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      🏛 Vostok launch vehicle at VDNKh

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      A full-size model of the rocket that put Gagarin into space, by the Cosmos pavilion.

      Vostok launch vehicle at VDNKh
      © Perituss · CC0
      • The model was installed by the pavilion on 20 September 1969.
      • During the 2009–2010 repairs it turned out that in 1985 the original rocket had been quietly replaced with an identical one.
      • The real Vostok put the Vostok-1 spacecraft with Yuri Gagarin into orbit on 12 April 1961.
      • The pavilion behind the rocket was built in 1938–1939 as a terminal shed resembling the Kievsky Station train shed.
      • The "Cosmos" exhibition appeared in the pavilion in 1967, and in 1991 the "Gagarin Party" rave festival was held under its vaults.
      • The "Cosmonautics and Aviation" center in the pavilion opened on 12 April 2018, Cosmonautics Day.
      • Under the dome hangs a portrait of Gagarin with a dove — a round panel 10 m across, based on a 1961 photo taken in Bulgaria.

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