Yuri Gagarin

The cosmonaut you mean?
Yes, the one and only who made it to orbit in 1961. Hey, that was way before the Americans reached the moon. No?
Yuri stayed 3 times in the Voyennyy Sanatoriy Mork in Tamga. On our way to Bokonbayevo we decided to visit this little gem. The place is a pearl, and on top well preserved. You can actually book a room and stay a night if you wish to revive the Russian athletic spirit. We didn’t.

One of the entrances to the sanatorium

Walking around the park searching for a Yuri Gagarin monument we noticed several people painting stuff & weeding the area. When asking a lady for direction she yelled at man to get ‘the key’.
Little did we knew that we would get kicked back 40 years. She ordered us to follow her. We did.
Turned out that they keep a little museum in one of the buildings dedicated to the cosmonaut. The lady transformed instantly into a proud & patient guide. Our Russian is limited, that explains.

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