Monument to the first cosmonaut in the world, Yuri Gagarina opened at Telnet headquarters in Tunisia. This was reported in the press service of the Russian Embassy in Tunisia, RIA Novosti reports.
Bronze bust was transferred as a gift to the International Charitable Public Foundation “Dialogue of Cultures – a Unified World” with the assistance of the Russian embassy in the country. Its author became the sculptor Alexey Leonov.
The ceremony was devoted to the 60th anniversary of the first flight of a person in space. The participation in it took the Russian ambassador to Tunisia Sergey Nikolaev, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Tunisia Usman Jerandi, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Tunisia Ulf Ben Uda, as well as the heads of the diploma of a number of African countries, transfers TASS.