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Juri Gagarin

Yuri Gagarin

Юрий Алексеевич Гагарин / Yuriy Alekseyevich Gagarin
Klushino 1934 - Novosyolovo 1968
Soviet pilot and cosmonaut; the first human being to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961.
(Wikipedia)

Lev Kerbel'
1986

Description

Second cast of the 1967 bust at the Alley of the Heroes of Space in Moscow (on this website).

Inscription(s)

JURI
GAGARIN

Sculptor

Lev Yefimovich Kerbel' - Лев Ефимович Кербель (Sumy 1917 - Moscow 2003), Russian sculptor of Soviet realist works (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Erfurt-web.de, Denkmale in Erfurt, Juri Gagarin.

Location (N 50°58'44" - E 11°2'14")

Item Code: deth163; Photograph: 12 October 2018
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