As immortalized Gagarin

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Exactly 60 years ago, on April 12, 1961, for the first time in the history of mankind flight of the person in space took place. Duration made it 1 hour 48 minutes: the Soviet astronaut Youri Alekseevich Gagarin onboard the first piloted ship "East-1" rounded Earth once. Having started from Baikonur Cosmodrome, it landed to Saratov Region near Smelovk's village. This event moved heaven and earth NON-COMMERCIAL HORTICULTURAL ASSOCIATION "SOYUZ ARKHITEKTOROV" certainly, it could not but immortalize in monuments over all country. The first person in space, cast in metal, towers today over Leninsky Avenue in Moscow, welcomes guests of park of a name...