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Statue of Yuri Gagarin, Greenwich

Monument in London

Field	Value
image	Statue of Yuri Gagarin at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich.jpg
title	Yuri Gagarin
alt	The Yuri Gagarin Statue at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich
image_upright	1
artist	After Anatoly Novikov
year	2011
type	Zinc statue
city	London, United Kingdom
museum	Royal Observatory, Greenwich
italic title	no

The Statue of Yuri Gagarin in Greenwich, London, is a zinc statue depicting the cosmonaut wearing a spacesuit and standing on top of a globe. The 3.5 m high statue is a replica of an original by Anatoly Novikov in Lyubertsy, where Gagarin was trained as a foundry worker. It was a gift to the British Council from the Russian space agency Roscosmos as a part of several cultural events commemorating the 50th anniversary of the first human spaceflight.

History

The figure was originally unveiled on 14 July 2011 at a temporary location in the Mall, close to Admiralty Arch and facing the statue of Captain James Cook. This location was chosen as it was where Gagarin first met the then Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. It was later moved to the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, at a site overlooking the Prime Meridian line, and was unveiled at the new location on 7 March 2013. There had been an unsuccessful proposal to move it to Manchester.

References

Kennedy, Maev. (14 July 2011). "Yuri Gagarin statue unveiled in London". The Guardian.
(14 July 2011). "Yuri Gagarin Statue Unveiled On The Mall". Londonist.
Amos, Jonathan. (14 July 2011). "Gagarin statue unveiled in London". BBC News.
Kennedy, Maev. (3 October 2012). "Yuri Gagarin statue to take up residence at Royal Observatory". The Guardian.
(7 March 2013). "Gagarin Monument Moved from London's Mall to Greenwich". RIA Novosti.
(3 October 2011). "Manchester bid to give Yuri Gagarin statue a home". BBC News.

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