Cosmonauts Alley
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Cosmonauts Alley (Russian: аллея Космонавтов) is a wide avenue in northern Moscow leading to the Russian Museum of Cosmonautics and the Monument to the Conquerors of Space . The pedestrian-only avenue connects the museum and monument to the VDNKh subway station.[1]
The park-like avenue is punctuated by large stone memorials of important figures in the Soviet space program. At its terminus below the monument, a larger-than-life statue of Soviet rocket pioneer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857–1935) sits facing back down the path.
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Monuments
- Yuri Gagarin
- Valentina Tereshkova
- Pavel Belyayev
- Alexey Leonov
- Vladimir Komarov
- Valentin Glushko
- Mstislav Keldysh
- Sergey Korolyov
- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Gallery
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Memorial of Mstislav Keldysh
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Memorial of spaceship designer Sergey Korolyov
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Cosmonauts Alley on Cosmonautics Day (2002)
See also
References
- ↑ Moon Moscow and St. Petersburg; J. Chater & N. Toohey, ed.; Public Affairs, 2009; p.127.
