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On August 20, 2021, the grand opening of a bronze bust of Yuri Gagarin took place at the Brisbane Planetarium. The event was timed to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the first human flight into space. A commemorative bust by sculptor A.D. Leonov was donated to the Planetarium. Thomas Brisbane by the International Charitable Foundation ...

... of K.E. Tsiolkovskiy expressed in the sculpture is the one of a dreamer studying the sky, who was able to see distant worlds in space and flying rockets as early as in the 19 th century. Two monuments, in the town of Borovsk of Kaluga region and in Brisbane (Australia), were installed in 2007 - the year of the 150 th anniversary of the birth of great Russian scientist and inventor K.E. Tsiolkovskiy. Sculptor: Sergei Bychkov.