{"id":48498,"date":"2026-05-14T06:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T04:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/?p=48498"},"modified":"2026-05-13T22:38:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:38:33","slug":"gagarin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/photo-of-the-day\/gagarin\/","title":{"rendered":"Gagarin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yuri_Gagarin\">Gagarin<\/a><\/strong> appears to be taking flight in this monumental mosaic, which exudes an impressive sense of dynamism. As the first man to fly into space, in a spacecraft launched from the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baikonur_Cosmodrome\">Baikonur <\/a><\/strong>Cosmodrome, Gagarin became the hero of many mosaics across the Soviet Union. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Karaganda\">Karaganda,<\/a><\/strong> Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>Credits: Mathilde Ramkissoon<\/strong>\u00a0(France,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sovietblocs\/\">@sovietblocs<\/a><\/strong>)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Find <a style=\"color: #f57d20; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/tag\/photo-of-the-day\/\">all of our photos of the day<\/a>. You can buy some of these and receive them at home: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/novastan\/you-can-buy-novastans-pictures-of-the-day\/\">here is the list<\/a><\/span>! If you can't find your picture in the list, mail us to <a href=\"mailto:photo@novastan.org\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">photo@novastan.org<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gagarin appears to be taking flight in this monumental mosaic, which exudes an impressive sense of dynamism. As the first man to fly into space, in a spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Gagarin became the hero of many mosaics across the Soviet Union. Karaganda, Kazakhstan. Credits: Mathilde Ramkissoon\u00a0(France,\u00a0@sovietblocs)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":984,"featured_media":48499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1923,470,4002,4651],"coauthors":[3992],"class_list":["post-48498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-of-the-day","tag-karaganda","tag-kazakhstan","tag-photo-of-the-day","tag-soviet-legacy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48501,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48498\/revisions\/48501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48498"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=48498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}