
Fifty-five years after Yury Gagarin became the first man in space on April 12, 1961, a monument to the Soviet cosmonaut was unveiled at Skolkovo, between the Boeing research centre and the Renova Lab building that is still under construction. The ceremony was attended by cosmonaut Yelena Serova, who returned from a six-month stay in space last March. Next to the new monument is a re-entry capsule from a spacecraft, presented to Skolkovo by United Rocket and Space Corporation in recognition of the cooperation between the two organisations.