Y. A. Gagarin Monument

The monument to Yuri Gagarin in Izhevsk is a full-height figure of the first cosmonaut, 3.65 meters tall, installed on April 20, 2016. The monument is a copy of the work by sculptor Anatoly Novikov from Lyubertsy near Moscow, and its author was the Izhevsk sculptor Pavel Medvedev. Gagarin is depicted in a spacesuit with the helmet removed, walking along a ribbon symbolizing the Earth's orbit. The monument is located on the territory of the "Aksion-Holding" factory next to the school where the cosmonaut learned the profession of a foundry worker, and after the opening, Metropolitan Viktorin of Izhevsk and Udmurtia consecrated the monument.