Cosmonauts' Alley (Varna)

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The Astronaut Alley is located near the Pantheon. It has been a tradition the visiting astronauts to plant a coniferous tree.
The first such tree was planted by Yuri Gagarin on May 26, 1961. It marks the beginning of the tradition.
The silver fir, planted by the first astronaut has been long dry and replaced several times. But some of coniferous trees planted by other astronauts can be seen today. Among the names of the Russian astronauts, the names of the Bulgarian astronauts Georgi Ivanov and Aleksandar Aleksandrov can be read.
Several years ago, the broken mable slabs were replaced by other more modest ones. In the alley you will see the names of:
Pilot astronaut - P. I. Beliaev - 1965 Vozhod-2
Pilot astronaut - G. T. Beregovoy - 1968 Soyuz -3
Pilot astronaut - Aleksey A. Leonov - 1965 Vozhod -2, 1975 Soyuz-19, Apollo
Pilot astronaut - Valentina V. Tereshkova - 1963 Vostok-5
Pilot astronaut - Valery F. Bykovsky - 1963 Vostok-5, Soyuz-29, 1978 Salyut-6, Soyuz-31
Pilot astronaut - D. A. Nikolaev - 1962 Vostok-3, 1970 Soyuz-9
Pilot astronaut - A. S. Eliseev - 1969 Soyuz-5, Soyuz-4, Soyuz-8, 1971 - Soyuz-10
Pilot astronaut - P. R. Popovich - 1962 Vostok-4, 1974 Soyuz-14, Salyut-3
Pilot astronaut - A. A. Gubarev - 1974 Soyuz-17, Salyut-4, 1978 Soyuz-28, Salyut-6
Pilot astronaut - N. N. Rukavishnikov - 1971 Soyuz -10; 1974 Soyuz -16, 1979 Soyuz-33
Pilot astronaut - Yuri Gagarin - 12.04.1961 Vostok-1
Pilot astronaut - Georgi Ivanov - 10-12.04.1979 Soyuz-33
Pilot astronaut - Aleksandar Aleksandrov - 07.06.1988 Soyuz M-5
Pilot astronaut - G. S. Titov - 1961 Vostok-2

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