Lenin Mausoleum
Moscow, st.m. Okhotny Ryad, pl. Krasnaya Lenin Mausoleum is a monument, a museum, and in fact it is a burial vault located in the very center of Red Square. According to a widespread version, the idea of embalming Lenin belonged to Kalinin. Negative to this idea was only Trotsky, who called this message "real madness."
Victory Park
Moscow, st. m. Park Pobedy, ave. Kutuzovsky, 53 Victory Park - a large memorial complex dedicated to the victory in the Great Patriotic War. It is often called the Poklonnaya Hill - by the name of the historic area, in which the park is located.
Tsar Bell
Moscow, art. m. Okhotny Ryad, Kremlin What is the Tsar Bell and where you can see it, they know practically everything. However, very few people know the history of this most interesting Moscow landmark. Today, the Tsar Bell is in the Kremlin - to touch it and any tourist can be photographed for a memory.
Tsar Cannon
Moscow, st. m. Okhotny Ryad, Kremlin On the territory of the Moscow Kremlin a lot of interesting sights. However, most tourists first of all recall two historical monuments - the Tsar Cannon and the Tsar Bell.
Composition "Road to ducklings! »
Moscow, art. m. Sportivnaya, Novodevichy pr-d, d. 1 Funny sculptural composition "Road to ducklings! "Is in the park near the Great Novodevichy Pond - it is a gift from the USSR from the wife of George W. Bush and a symbol of friendship between the children of the two superpowers. Behind the bronze mother-duck stretched a chain of 8 clumsy ducklings
Moscow Metro
Stations of the Moscow Metro - "Moscow's underground palaces" are truly palatial magnificence of the vestibules and underground halls. Underground complexes are decorated with statues and reliefs, monumental and decorative compositions by leading artists of the country.
Monument to Alexander Blok in Moscow
Moscow, st.m. Arbatskaya Str. Spiridonovka, 6 Of course, Alexander Blok is a Petersburg poet. "My incomprehensible city," he wrote of the great city on the Neva, with which his whole life was connected. But Moscow, the ancient capital of Russia, played a big role in the fate of the poet
Monument to Vladimir Vysotsky in Moscow
Moscow, st.m. 15, and Monument to Vladimir Vysotsky on Strastnoy Boulevard was established on the fifteenth anniversary of the death of the Russian poet. It was solemnly opened on the square Petrovsky gates, contrary to the words of one of his songs "they will not put me a monument in the park, somewhere near the Peter's Gate ..."
Monument to Gogol on Gogol Boulevard
Moscow, st. m. Arbatskaya, pl. Arbatskaya, Gogol Boulevard Gogol Monuments in Moscow are now at once two, and they are at a distance of three hundred meters from each other. The first was cast in 1909 and installed on Gogol Boulevard, but during the Soviet period, he seemed too mournful to the party top.
Gogol Monument at Nikitsky Boulevard
Moscow, st. m. Arbatskaya, pl. Arbatskaya, Nikitsky Boulevard, 7A At the initiative of Joseph Stalin in 1951 the monument was moved to the Donskoy monastery, Stalin did not like the gloomy view of the monument. In 1952 another monument to Nikolai Vasilievich was erected on this site. In 1959, the monument was moved to the courtyard of the estate of Count Tolstoy.
Monument to Griboyedov in Moscow
Moscow, st.m. Pure ponds, Chistoprudny Boulevard, 6 In 1959, to the 130th anniversary of the death of the great Russian writer Alexander Griboyedov, a landmark monument appeared in Moscow - a monument to Alexander Griboyedov. The monument was located in one of the most beautiful places of the capital - Chistoprudniy Boulevard.
Monument "Children - victims of adult vices"
Moscow, st.m. Tretyakovskaya, pl. Swamp The first year after the opening to the sculptures could be approached closely. However, after the attempt of the vandals, the authorities decided to encircle it with a fence, put out security and open it for visitors at certain times. The grill behind which the monument stands is open from 9 am to 9 pm
Yesenin Monument in Moscow
Moscow, st.m. Pushkinskaya, Tverskoy boulevard, 19 In the middle of Tverskoy Boulevard there is a monument to poet Sergey Yesenin. In these places during the Silver Age there was a popular cafe Stoil Pegasus, where the poets liked to gather. Therefore, next to the figure of the poet you can see the statue of Pegasus.
Monuments of Tsereteli in Moscow
Moscow, st. m. Kropotkinskaya, nab. Bersenevskaya The works of Zurab Tsereteli stand apart from all Moscow monuments. You can treat them differently, but you can not erase them from the pages of modern history. The most amusing is the monument to Luzhkov the janitor with huge arms holding a broom and trampling rubbish.
Krylov Monument in Moscow
Moscow, st.m. Mayakovskaya Str. Malaya Bronnaya etc. 44 Monument to I. A. Krylov was opened on September 17, 1976 in the square near the Patriarshy ponds in Malaya Bronnaya. The authors of the monument created an original sculpted ensemble. The center of the ensemble is set on a very low and wide granite pedestal with the memorable inscription "Ivan Andreevich Krylov."
Monument to Malchysh-Kibalchish in Moscow
Moscow, art. m. Vorob'evy Gory, st. Kosygina, d. 17 On May 19, 1972 in Moscow, not far from Vorobyovy Gory, a monument to the "thunder of bourgeois" was discovered - a boy-kibalchish. The running fragile figure of the Gaidar hero in the Budyonovka, fluttering in the wind, with his father's saber in one hand and with the horn in the other, is read with a clear outline against the sky.
Monument to Minin and Pozharsky
Moscow, st.m. Okhotny Ryad, pl. Krasnaya In the very heart of Moscow - on Red Square - there is a monument to Minin and Pozharsky. To be more precise, the sculptural group was installed in front of the Cathedral of St. Basil the Blessed. It is dedicated to Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Mikhailovich Pozharsky, the leaders of the second national militia during the Polish intervention, and the victory over Poland in 1612.
Monument "Moscow-Petushki"
Moscow, art. m. Mendeleevskaya, pl. Wrestling, etc. 13 Two figures stand opposite each other in a small square, which is pathetically called "Battle Square". The place was chosen not by chance: it was here that the hero of the immortal poem Venechka drank a glass of coriander on the way to Kursky station
Monument "Antitank hedgehogs"
Moscow, Leningradskoe shosse, 23 km In the formidable autumn days and nights of 1941, when the enemy was torn to the capital, Moscow and Moscow region worked selflessly, creating a whole system of complementary powerful defensive fortifications. They were intended to protect the boundaries of the city, which became an impregnable fortress.
Monument to Pushkin in Moscow
Moscow, st.m. Pushkinskaya, pl. Pushkinskaya It is difficult to imagine the present Moscow without a well-known monument to the poet AS Pushkin. The material from which the sculpture-granite is created, thanks to it, it is perceived as something eternal. On the shoulders of the author lay a huge responsibility: what he creates will be preserved forever
Famous domestic sculptors, artists, architects, composers, bards, artists, figures are immortalized in bronze and look at passers-by from their pedestals in the streets of Moscow science, doctors, cosmonauts and pilots, patrons and revolutionaries, military leaders and heroes of the USSR and Russia.