Monument Space conquerors

Monument Space conquerors (Moscow).
Photo by N.I.Zharkikh, May 6, 1979.

At the entrance to the exhibition of achievements of the USSR those Russians who do not flown in space, built this monument (1964). Moreover, they built it very timely, because in 1969 the Americans landed on the Moon and leadership in space exploration was irrevocably lost to the United States.