Little girls observing the Cosmonaut statue (foreground) mounted close to the Outer Space Exhibition Center in Kozlov Square, Samara.

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Cosmonaut statue (foreground) mounted close to the Outer Space Exhibition Center in Kozlov Square, Samara.

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Samara Region Governor Vladimir Artyakov seen at the Outer Space Exhibition Center after unveiling the Cosmonaut monument.

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Yury Koptev, director-general of the Russian Space Agency from 1992 to 2004, seen at Samara's Outer Space Exhibition Center after unveiling the Cosmonaut monument.

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Samara Region Governor Vladimir Artyakov seen at the Outer Space Exhibition Center after unveiling the Cosmonaut monument.

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Galina Gagarina (foreground), the daughter of the world's first cosmonaut Yury Gagarin, seen at the Outer Space Exhibition Center after unveiling the Cosmonaut monument. left, background: Russian Cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko.

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From left, foreground: Cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko and the first cosmonaut's daughter Galina Gagarina seen at Samara's Outer Space Exhibition Center after unveiling the Cosmonaut monument.

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