was a soviet military turboprop aircraft, designed for civilian purposes that day from the frunze central airfieldign bureau il-18 was overtaken by the senior test pilot of the okb vladimir kakinaki, the plane received its own name moscow, this medium and long-range main liner became the most massive and most profitable aircraft of its time and at 18 massively transported passengers for almost 35 years until the early nineties, and where they served until the beginning of the 21st century, and russians still use them. vksli performance of special tasks july 4 , 1980. in moscow, on leninsky prospekt , a monument to yuri gagarin was solemnly opened sculptor. pavel bondarenko portrayed the first cosmonaut as aspiring. upward, the monument is more than forty meters high and weighs 12 tons, made of titanium. because of this metal, spaceships were built . at the base of the pedestal, which symbolize the launch of the rocket, there is a copy. let us in the apparatus of the ship vostok-1 in it gagarin returned to earth. after the first time in history circled our planet, the sculpture is assembled from 20