Flowers laid at the bust of Yuri Gagarin in Ashgabat

April 12 is celebrated around the world as Cosmonautics Day and the International Day of the First Human Space Flight. In Ashgabat on this day, flowers were laid to the bust of Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin, the first cosmonaut of the Earth. This is reported by the Internet publication "Turkmenistan: Golden Age".

A memorial bust to the first cosmonaut has recently appeared in Turkmenistan - the sculpture was made by Alexei Leonov and installed on the territory of the Department of Education, Science and Culture of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in April 2021.

Schoolchildren of the Joint Turkmen-Russian Pushkin General Education School came to the Russian House to lay flowers to the bust of Yuri Gagarin. The representative of Rossotrudnichestvo in Turkmenistan Yulia Zaitseva addressed the audience, emphasizing the importance of the beginning of space exploration and telling about the events held in Turkmenistan on the occasion of Cosmonautics Day.