Yuri Gagarin statue unveiled in London

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Russian astronaut - the first man to travel into outer space - discovered by his daughter Elena Gagarina

The Man Who Fell to Earth came to rest in the commercial center of London. Half a century after the Russian Yuri Gagarin became the first man to see our little blue world of space, his daughter Elena Gagarina unveiled his statue where jubilant crowds gathered to greet the hero on 14 July, 1961.

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The statue is standing in the world Gagarin in his space suit, and was hunted by the original cast artist Anatoly Novikov, commissioned a statue in the small Russian town of Lyubertsy where Gagarin was formed as a foundry worker. He came to London as a gift from the Russian Space Agency, Roskosmos, and just opposite the statue of another great explorer, Captain Cook, outside the British Council offices, which also has an exhibition of extraordinary objects and images have never left Russia before, including food, space, flight seat for a dog, and against the severity of Gagarin harness and safety training.

"It's huge, important not only for my family and my country, but for all people -. 50 years ago began a new era," said Gagarina

In his own account of 108 minutes, in April 1961 when his Vostok 1 spacecraft in Earth orbit in April 1961, Gagarin recalled his safe return possible parachuting down near the capsule in a field near the village of Smelovka -. feared he would not survive the landing capsule was hidden at a time

"step on land again, I saw a woman and a girl looking at me curiously. I was still in my orange spacesuit, and were terrified." I am a friend, "I cried, taking off his helmet." Do you come from outer space, "asked the woman." As a matter of fact, what I have. "

• came to England as part of an international tour, and cosmonaut beautiful, charming was received everywhere with the rape and given that to pop stars, footballers and honeymooners Princesses.

never forgot his visit, and the warmth of the crowds who welcomed him, Gagarina said. "He knew from the newspapers and literature are very close, but he felt when he arrived in Britain, everyone loved him and expressed his joy at what was stunned."

The government was quick to continue the rape of crowds, the three-day visit was extended twice so that Gagarin would have lunch with the Queen at Buckingham Palace - the place where now the statue, in a Rolls Royce with the number plate YG1 -. and to meet with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan

In large herds of Manchester waited for hours in the rain. Gagarin called the top of the car to be opened, saying: ". If all these people getting wet to welcome me, probably least I can do is wet, too" In London, an American correspondent reported with unconcealed shock, the crowds were so numerous and enthusiastic. A month earlier by President John F. Kennedy Visit
Gagarin seemed a time of optimism and joy, to melt at the end of the Cold War - but NATO allies strongly condemned the semi-official home of Gagarin, and the within one month, the new Iron Curtain was up, the Berlin Wall.

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