In Moscow, on Lenin Avenue installeda majestic and grandiose monument to the first man who has mastered space. The monument was probably seen by all who were in the capital. This 42-meter monument is an ornament of the avenue and a symbol of the achievements of our country in the exploration of outer space. What is this monument? When was it installed? What is his story? What was it made of? Who is the author of the monument? About the monument to Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin, installed in the capital, and will be discussed in the article.
History
Monument to Gagarin Yuri was established in 1980year, before the start of the Olympic Games. It was precisely this time that was chosen by chance: they wanted to magnify the astronaut and show the foreigners what the most powerful space power was. Many guests of the Olympiad and the capital considered it necessary to take a photo at the monument to Yuri Gagarin in Moscow. He became one of the symbols of the capital.
Sculpture monument made of alloytitanium from which to build the spacecraft. Its weight is very large - about 12 tons. The authors of the monument are sculptor Bondarenko P.I., architects Belopolsky Ya. B, Gazhevsky F.M. and designer Sudakov A.F. The monument is located, as already mentioned, on Lenin Avenue.
The monument to Yuri Gagarin in Moscow is very complex inmanufacturing, created and installed in record time. In 1979, the order was given as soon as possible to create and install a monument to an outstanding cosmonaut. We coped with this task by the summer of 1980. It is an object of cultural heritage of the city of Moscow and Russia. He can often be seen in the screensavers of Soviet films. In 1991, in honor of the 30th anniversary of the conquest of outer space, a coin was issued with the image of the Moscow monument to Gagarin.
The place where the monument is installed
Ленинский проспект для установки монумента был it was not by chance that it was along this road that Gagarin was heading from Vnukovo airport for a report on his flight into space. The square on which the monument is installed is named after the first cosmonaut.
Implementing the project, the authors of the monument wanted it to be visible from a long distance, for example, even from the ring road. The address of the monument to Yuri Gagarin in Moscow: Lenin Avenue, Building 39.
How and where the monument was made
Памятник Юрию Гагарину в Москве изготовили на Foundry-mechanical plant in Balashikha. The sculpture was collected from more than 230 cast fragments, which are connected together with bolts and welds. There were difficulties in carrying out the largest element - the face of an astronaut, whose weight was about 300 kg, and there were difficulties with a vacuum furnace. But metallurgists with a difficult task coped quite successfully. The monument became the world's first monument of such a large size, which was assembled from titanium.
Description of the monument to Yuri Gagarin in Moscow
Sculpture mounted on a high ribbedpedestal. It is made of titanium, its height is 42 meters. At its foot is a copy of the spacecraft on which Gagarin made his historic space flight.
The sculptural figure of Yuri Gagarin is staring up - into space. And the ribbed pedestal on which it stands is associated with a fiery plume that comes out of the spacecraft at launch.
Mysterious incident
In December 2010, on Gagarin Square in front ofan unusual incident happened to the amazed public. The monument turned off the standard light, the numbers of the pedestal appeared: from 10 to 0. After that, a stream of fire flame struck from the feet of the monument, and it flew away ... But after a while, the backlight turned on again, and startled eyewitnesses saw the monument to the astronaut the place, and the incident is a light installation, of which the titan astronaut became a part.
The most unusual monuments astronaut
The monument to Yuri Gagarin in Moscow is included in the list of the most unusual cosmonaut monuments that are installed throughout the world. The list also includes:
- Monument to Gagarin at Baikonur. This is the figure of an astronaut, whose hands are directed upwards. During sunset and sunrise, you can take a photo on which the astronaut supposedly holds the light above his head.
- The monument to Gagarin in Geneva consists of two parts: the first is an exact copy of the obelisk installed at the main entrance to the Museum of Cosmonautics in Moscow, the other part is a sculpture.
- The monument to the cosmonaut in Kaluga, the first stone of which was laid by Gagarin himself, was installed only in 2011.
- Monument in Karaganda. The city was chosen for the reason that all capsules with astronauts land in this area.
- Monument in Kolomna - the cosmonaut’s words are carved on the monument: “The stars are getting closer ...”.
- Monument in London. This is a copy of a monument erected in the Moscow region, in the city of Lyubertsy.
- Monumental sculpture of a spacecraft with a bas-relief of Gagarin in St. Petersburg.
- Obelisk in the Star City in the suburbs, on the Alley of astronauts.
- Monument in Bryansk on Gagarin Boulevard. The sculpture depicts a walking cosmonaut and symbolizes the "step of eternity."
- Gagarin monument in the Odessa region in the village. Sergeevka.
Moscow monument to Yuri Gagarin -a majestic monument, which is installed on one of the largest squares of the capital. It can be seen from a distance. Many tourists, visiting Moscow, certainly want to see this legendary monument.
