The monument to the first man in space discovered in Belgrade caused confusion in social networks with his ridiculous proportions.

The bust of Yuri Gagarin was ordered by the city authorities last year - he was installed on the street of his name and inaugurated a few days ago.

But something went wrong: it turned out that the bust of Gagarin does not fit the size of the pedestal on which it was installed. As a result, only a part of Gagarin's head, looking as if from a balcony fence.

"The only way to see the bust is to launch yourself into the sky," Serbian website Noizz.

"Although it is rather symbolic, the decision does not shine with common sense," commented writer Ivan Stoyanov.

The monument was installed at night, without any ceremony, wrote Noizz. One of the first his strange appearance was noted by the owner of the Twitter account Cenzura, who published a photo of the sculpture with the signature "Oh no".

Users of social networks are predictably mocking the monument. Someone jokes that they made the bust so small, "so that it does not get blown off the pedestal". Others ironically say that a small bust is "less likely to be stolen".

Some users of social networks suggest that a statue of an astronaut in full growth is hidden inside a massive pedestal. Others - that the bust is a conceptual installation of modern art, and the body of the cosmonaut is invited to find the spectator himself.

However, many consider the monument unsuitable for the Soviet pilot-cosmonaut, the first Earthlings to orbit around the planet in 1961. Compared with Moscow monuments, "the one in Belgrade is a scandal and an insult," says blogger Danilo Churcic.