People gather in a square to look at a giant inflatable in the shape of a cosmonaut installed ahead of Cosmonautics Day, which is widely celebrated in Russia on April 12 to mark the anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's historic first human space flight in 1961, in the Black Sea port city of Yevpatoriya, Crimea, on April 9, 2025. (Photo by Alexey Pavlishak/Reuters)
