Памятник собаке-космонавту Звёздочке, Space dog monument near former airport in Izhevsk, Russia
The cast iron monument depicts a space capsule with a dog looking out through an open hatch on Molodyozhnaya Street.
The monument commemorates Zvezdochka, the last Soviet space dog who landed near Votkinsk on March 25, 1961, before Yuri Gagarin's historic flight.
The names of fifty space program specialists and details about other cosmonaut dogs are engraved on the monument in both regular text and Braille.
The monument stands at the location of the former Izhevsk airport runway where Zvezdochka stayed before her transfer to Moscow.
Local schoolchildren initiated the monument by creating a snow sculpture model before journalist Sergei Pakhomov helped realize the permanent version.
Location: Izhevsk
Inception: March 25, 2006
Made from material: cast iron
GPS coordinates: 56.85000,53.28972
Latest update: March 3, 2025 17:34
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