“On the occasion of this year's celebration of the 60th anniversary of the first flight into space, a bust of Yuri Gagarin was unveiled in Managua.
The event was attended by Ambassador Alexander Khokholikov, a delegation led by cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin and the Nicaraguan authorities, ”RIA Novosti reports the message of the Russian embassy in the Central American country.
The monument to Gagarin was erected in the capital's Peace Park.
Earlier it was reported that on October 10 in St. Petersburg, at the age of 90, a doctor died, who had selected Yuri Gagarin as an astronaut.