Gagarin Monument in London

[Dogel]

Monument to the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, which will be opened on 14 July this year in central London to mark the 50 th anniversary of his visit to Britain, was made the capital of the Udmurt Republic.

Gagarin's statue was made in the winter of this year at the Izhevsk factory "Lit" and is a replica of a monument built to the 50 th anniversary of Gagarin's famous domestic sculptor Anatoly Novikov, and installed in the Moscow suburb of Lyubertsy, where the future astronaut was in trade school.

Izhevsk sculptor Pavel Medvedev, who made the copy, told The argument in Izhevsk "that work on the production started in October last year under the supervision of specialists from the Russian Federal Space Agency and the UK, including the curator of the project, the director of visual arts of the British Council, Andrew Rose (Andrea Rose).

Sculptor Medvedev, who is familiar thanks to the inhabitants of Udmurtia Izhevsk monument stars and arms makers, said the monument in Lyubertsy had to copy a very delicate, because local residents were opposed to dismantle it. Moreover, according to the sculptor, residents near Moscow city made a protest after learning that the statue may be sent to London. "Therefore we had to make a copy" - said Medvedev. According to him, for it required a computer graphics - using new technologies every fragment of the monument was executed in three dimensions. After that, the sculptor made the first model of the future, and then at the Izhevsk factory "Lit" was made the first segment. "In December we were visited by specialists from the UK, assessed the quality of the product and were very satisfied," - said Pavel Medvedev.

As a result monument is made of an alloy of aluminum and silicon, the total product weight was 300 pounds. Currently, he is transported to Moscow. Some time, according to Medvedev, he will stand on the ENEA, and then went to London.

Medvedev stressed that the British more than a year of 200 monuments have chosen one that would not be static, cheap popular, as well as accurately conveyed the spirit of the time. At the Gagarin monument stands in the suit with wide open arms - the author of the original sculptor Alexander Novikov personally knew astronaut and managed to pass his energy.

According to media reports, a monument to the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin will be opened on 14 July this year in central London to mark the 50 th anniversary of his visit to Britain. The monument will be installed at the headquarters of the British Council, near Trafalgar Square, a year later it was back in one of Britain's cultural institutions. Gagarin's visit to Britain in July 1961 at the peak of his fame as the first cosmonaut. Initially, he was invited into the country by the British Trade Union Foundry (Gagarin began his career as precisely as a caster), but later in the program were added to the meeting with the Prime Minister and the Queen of Great Britain.