Pictures of Moscow » Monuments http://picturesofmoscow.com Photo Moscow today Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:42:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Femmes-poules? http://picturesofmoscow.com/2010/06/09/femmes-poules/ http://picturesofmoscow.com/2010/06/09/femmes-poules/#comments Wed, 09 Jun 2010 06:02:45 +0000 Pictures of Moscow http://picturesofmoscow.com/?p=661
Photo: sculpture by an unknown author in the children’s recreation park. Lyubertsy.
Perhaps, unsigned author decided to eclipse Salvador Dali with his Femmes-poules.
I hope the father of surrealism is not turning over in his grave by such followers

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]]> http://picturesofmoscow.com/2010/03/27/gaz-24/feed/ 0 Squadron http://picturesofmoscow.com/2009/11/10/squadron/ http://picturesofmoscow.com/2009/11/10/squadron/#comments Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:28:29 +0000 Pictures of Moscow http://picturesofmoscow.com/?p=544 Photo: monument to military pilots in Zhulebino.

Photo: monument to military pilots in Zhulebino.

Inscription: «Eternal glory to the military pilots, the defenders of Moscow. Here in 1941 1942g.g. based 108-th Guards Ground Attack Air Rava-Russian Order of Suvorov Regiment, took part in the defense of Moscow.»

Rava-Russian (Ukrainian Rava-Ruska) – a city in Zholkovsky area of Lviv region of Ukraine. For the liberation of the city in 1944, the regiment named in his honor.
During the war the regiment trained 7 Heroes of the Soviet Union.

]]> http://picturesofmoscow.com/2009/11/10/squadron/feed/ 0 Cosmonautics Day http://picturesofmoscow.com/2009/04/12/cosmonautics-day/ http://picturesofmoscow.com/2009/04/12/cosmonautics-day/#comments Sun, 12 Apr 2009 06:41:21 +0000 Pictures of Moscow http://picturesofmoscow.com/?p=448 <em>Photo: monument to Yuri Gagarin in Moscow on Leninsky prospect.</em>

Photo: monument to Yuri Gagarin in Moscow on Leninsky prospect.

On April 12, 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first spaceman of planet Earth. He flew over around the globe on a ship «Vostok 1″.

The monument was installed in 1980. The ball at the foot – the layout of landing module spacecraft «Vostok 1″

P.S.
The people named a monument: – «Where is my luggage»? ))

]]> http://picturesofmoscow.com/2009/04/12/cosmonautics-day/feed/ 1 Today Yuri Gagarin would have turned 75! http://picturesofmoscow.com/2009/03/09/today-yuri-gagarin-would-have-turned-75/ http://picturesofmoscow.com/2009/03/09/today-yuri-gagarin-would-have-turned-75/#comments Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:47:35 +0000 Pictures of Moscow http://picturesofmoscow.com/?p=431 <em>Photo: monument to Yuri Gagarin in city Lyubertsy near college, where he studied in 1949-1951.</em>

Photo: monument to Yuri Gagarin in city Lyubertsy near college, where he studied in 1949-1951.

It is a pity that he lived only 34.

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