Апр
12
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»? ))
Апр
22
Happy birthday, Lenin!
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Today 138 years from the date of a birth of the leader of world proletariat V. I.Ulyanov (Lenin).
Photo: Lenin’s mausoleum. 1930. Arh. Shusev. Object № 545 UNESCO World Heritage.
The Red square in such case is closed. Likely, to not admit a national communistic party. Therefore Lenin celebrates in proud loneliness in the bulletproof sarcophagus.
And how here to not be «is more alive than all the living» if you are not buried with 84 years.
Апр
12
We are the first for ever!
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Today Russia celebrate Day of astronautics!
On 12 April 1961, Gagarin became the first human to travel into space in Vostok 1 and return.
Monument to «Subjugators of space». It is opened on October, 4th, 1964. Height of 100 meters, weight of 250 tons, it is reveted by titanic panels thickness of 1.5 mm. In the basis the Memorial museum of astronautics is located.
Ноя
24
Suvorov was Russian Generalissimo, Prince Italiysky and Count Rimniksky. He never lost battles.
Suvorovskaya Sq.
Suvorov looks at theatre of the Russian Army. The building is a five-pointed star.
