Photo credit: Administration of the Odintsovo city district of the Moscow region
Street artist from Italy, Yorit, became an honored guest of the Star City, the Kultura TV channel reports. He had a tour of the territory where space explorers live and visited the model of the Mir international space station. The Italian even sat in the layout of the Soyuz spacecraft, on which Yuri Gagarin made his flight.
Yorit was invited to Star City as the author of the world's largest portrait of the first cosmonaut. The guest took part in the Urban Morphogenesis graffiti festival, which was held in Odintsovo near Moscow. He created his sixty meters high masterpiece there. The facade of a twenty-story building became a «canvas» for his work. Yuri Gagarin is depicted with photographic accuracy. It took Yorit more than one week to complete the work.
According to the artist, he considers the first cosmonaut a real hero, especially since Gagarin was born in a simple peasant family. Yorit himself was born in Naples.
The artist was greatly impressed by the orbital station and a meeting with Oleg Kononenko, who recently returned from an expedition to the ISS. The artist tried borsch from a tube and visited the Gagarin Museum, where cosmonaut’s office and personal belongings are kept intact. Yorit even learned to say «let's go!» in Russian.
After completing the tour, the artist promised to return to Russia to write another portrait of the first woman-cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova.
Russkiy Mir
