Description of the attraction
On April 12, 1986, on the 25th anniversary of the first flight into space, a monument to Yuri Gagarin was erected in Orenburg. The sculptural composition consists of a full-length bronze figure of the first cosmonaut of the Earth, in protective overalls, with arms outstretched to the sky, mounted on a one and a half meter rectangular pedestal and two vertical steles of different heights behind the conqueror of space, also visually directed upwards. The four-meter sculpture and steles are installed on a stylobate, from which a wide staircase descends. In our time, a flower bed has been laid out near the stairs, and the entire area near the sculptural composition has been ennobled. The author of the monument to the first cosmonaut is the sculptor YL Chernov.
Orenburg is rightfully considered the runway in the career of the young Gagarin. It was in this city that the first cosmonaut of the Earth took the oath, mastered flying skills, and received cadet, later officer's shoulder straps. Personal life is also inextricably linked with Orenburg; the history of the Gagarins family is told in the museum-apartment of Valentina Ivanovna Gagarina (mother of the famous cosmonaut). In memory of the honorary citizen Yuri Gagarin, the avenue (1961) was named, the square (1986), where the monument was erected, a MIG-15 (the plane on which Gagarin flew) was exhibited near the building of the flight school, as well as a memorial plaque with embossed gold years of study of the world's first pilot-cosmonaut at the Orenburg military aviation school.
The monument to Yuri Gagarin is located in the park of the same name, next to the National Village.
