Monument to Yuri Gagarin is a big monument located near a metro station, in the surroundings of Moscow, the main city of Russian Federation. It is one of the monuments dedicated to the conqueror of space. It is dedicated to Yuri Gagarin, the first human...More

It is not clear why this place, where one of the largest squares of Moscow is located, and even appeared on the third transport ring, and even with the new subway on the new circular line, has a monument to the cosmonaut, though the first...More

Yuri Gagarin was the first man to go to space. The first man ever to leave the earth! His statue is bewildering, tall and proud he stands, high in the air, in the blue sky. Definitely a sight you must behold!

Designed by Pavel Bondarenko and architect Yakov Belopolskiy and erected in 1980, this amazing monument to Yuri Gagarin is 42.5-meter high. He is a national hero because he was the first person to travel in space, and even if spacetravel has changed a lot since...More

This statue is an amazing sight not least because it sits high above a very busy thoroughfare. Yuri sits on top of a very tall pillar that is a little bit out of town but still worth seeing.

This is as close as I can find for the Yuri Gargarin cosmonaut training center a really cool site to visit, the largest underwater training facility is located here, as well as a sweet functional training centrifuge.

It's just a statue, a very big one. But its style will remind guys in their 40s (like me) how we used to dream about going to space. If you read and see films about Yuri before going, you will understand the myth better. Worth...More