Notable figures include a computer programmer (or perhaps some other computing or telecommunications professional) holding a punched tape, a cosmonaut wearing a space suit, and Laika the space dog, first living creature to orbit Earth. Scientists, engineers, workers, their occupations indicated by appropriate accoutrements of the professions. Once overcoming rightlessness and darknessīelow, in smaller letters, is the dedicatory statement: ![]() It is 107 meters (350 feet) tall and, on Korolyov's suggestion, covered with titanium cladding.Ī statue of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, the precursor of astronautics, is located in front of the obelisk.Ī poem in Russian on the front of the stone base of the monument base says: The main part of the monument is a giant obelisk topped by a rocket and resembling in shape the exhaust plume of the rocket. The museum reopened on Apafter three years of renovations. Preparatory work and open the Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics. However, it took until Ap(two days before the 20th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight) to complete the The monument was designed to accommodate a museum in its base. The grand opening of the monument took place on October 4, 1964, on the day of the 7th anniversary of the Sputnik 1 launch. Out of some 350 proposals, the design by sculptor A.P. In March 1958, a few months after the launch of Sputnik 1, a competition was announced for the best design of an obelisk celebrating the dawn of the Space Age. Korolyov himself lived in a house within a few blocks from the monument, which is now preserved as the Korolyov Memorial Museum ( Russian: Дом-музей академика С. П. Королёва). (today's Korolyov City) much of the space program was based. The choice of this part of Moscow for space-related names and monuments may have been inspired by the fact that Prospekt Mira runs toward the north-eastern suburbs of Moscow, where, in Podlipki The Cosmonauts Alley south of the monument features busts of Soviet cosmonauts. Many streets in the area have been named after the precursors of the space program ( Nikolai Kibalchich, Friedrich Zander, Yuri Kondratyuk) and its participants ( Sergey Korolyov). Since the 1960s, this part of Moscow in general has had a high concentration of space-themed sights and names: besides the monument and the museum under it, the grand "Cosmos" pavilion in the Exhibition Centre displayed many artifacts of the Soviet space program. The easiest access is from the VDNKh subway station. The monument is located outside the main entry to today's Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy ( VDNKh), in the northeastern part of Moscow, near Prospekt Mira ("Peace Avenue"). The Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics is located inside the base of the monument. ![]() The monument is 107 metres (351 feet) tall, has 77° incline, and is made of titanium. It depicts a starting rocket that rises on its exhaust plume. Monumént "Pokorítelyam kósmosa", IPA: ) is a giant obelisk erected in Moscow in 1964 to celebrate achievements of the Soviet people in space exploration.
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