Local Gagarin museum renovated
The Yury Gagarin house-museum in the Russian border village of Korzunovo has been repaired with funding from the Just Russia party. Gagarin served in this area as a pilot when he was selected as cosmonaut for the Soviet Space Program.
Yury Gagarin served as a jet fighter pilot in Luostari, neighboring village to Korzunovo, from 1957 to 1959. On 12 April 1961, he became the first human in outer space and the first to orbit the Earth.
The Murmansk regional branch of the Just Russia party has now finanzed renovation of the museum building, which has been in a poor shape the last years, the party’s web site reads.
The relatively small museum only a few kilometers away from the border to Norway holds some of Gagarin’s personal equipment from the time he served on the Kola Peninsula.
