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English: The statue to cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was unveiled at its permanent location at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich on 7 March 2013. The statue shows Gagarin in his spacesuit standing on the globe and is a gift from the Russian federal space agency, Roscosmos, to the British People.
The statue is near the Observatory’s 19th century Astronomy Centre; the area in which the statue stands has been named Yuri Gagarin Terrace in honour of the cosmonaut.
Yuri Gagarin was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961. He was killed in 1968 when the MiG-15 training jet he was piloting crashed.statue in London after a work by Anatoly Novikov | |||||
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Location | Royal Observatory, Greenwich, Royal Borough of Greenwich, Greater London, London, England | ||||
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Media in category "Statue of Yuri Gagarin, London"
The following 21 files are in this category, out of 21 total.
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Estatua de Yuri Gagarin.jpg 1,280 × 1,258; 408 KB
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Gagarin Terrace, Royal Observatory, Greenwich (geograph 3624209).jpg 481 × 640; 313 KB
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Statue of Yuri Gagarin in London.jpg 1,536 × 2,048; 651 KB
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Statue of Yuri Gagarin in Spring Gardens as part of an exhibition at the British Council.jpg 1,944 × 2,592; 1.17 MB
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Statue to Yuri Gagarin on the British Council Plaza - geograph.org.uk - 2822949.jpg 3,000 × 4,000; 4.02 MB
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Unveiling of Gagarin statue on The Mall, London (14 July 2011).jpg 3,000 × 4,000; 2.46 MB
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Yuri Gagarin-Юрий Гагарин Greenwich Observatory 6428.JPG 2,448 × 3,264; 3.11 MB
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