{"id":5276,"date":"2019-06-05T22:42:13","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T20:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nopictures.be\/?p=5276"},"modified":"2025-10-28T11:28:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T10:28:45","slug":"yuri-gagarin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nopictures.be\/?p=5276","title":{"rendered":"Yuri Gagarin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"color:#515c60\" class=\"has-text-color\">The cosmonaut you mean?  <br \/>Yes, the one and only who made it to orbit in 1961. Hey, that was way before the Americans reached the moon. No?<br \/>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&#8217;t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" src=\"http:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_4524-1920x1280.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4985\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_4524.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_4524-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_4524-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><figcaption>One of the entrances to the sanatorium<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#515c60\" class=\"has-text-color\">Walking around the park searching for a Yuri Gagarin monument we noticed several people painting stuff &amp; weeding the area. When asking a lady for direction she yelled at man to get &#8216;the key&#8217;.<br \/>Little did we knew that we would get kicked back 40 years. She ordered us to follow her. We did.<br \/>Turned out that they keep a little museum in one of the buildings dedicated to the cosmonaut. The lady transformed instantly into a proud &amp; patient guide. Our Russian is limited, that explains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" src=\"http:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_4526-1920x1280.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"4987\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_4526.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/nopictures.be\/?attachment_id=4987\" class=\"wp-image-4987\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_4526.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_4526-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_4526-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" 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1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" src=\"http:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_4543-1920x1280.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"4999\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_4543.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/nopictures.be\/?attachment_id=4999\" class=\"wp-image-4999\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_4543.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_4543-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_4543-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">Museum and sport facility<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" src=\"http:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_4542-1920x1280.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4998\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_4542.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_4542-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nopictures.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_4542-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"wrap-excerpt-more\"><a class=\"excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/nopictures.be\/?p=5276\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,57,45],"tags":[124,128],"class_list":["post-5276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historic-art","category-museum","category-travel","tag-kyrgyzstan","tag-yuri-gagarin","post--featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nopictures.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nopictures.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nopictures.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nopictures.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nopictures.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5276"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/nopictures.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5318,"href":"https:\/\/nopictures.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5276\/revisions\/5318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nopictures.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nopictures.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nopictures.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nopictures.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}