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10 Monuments & Statues in District Western (ZAO) That You Shouldn't Miss
The political, scientific, historical, architectural and business center of Russia, Moscow displays the country's contrasts at their most extreme. The ancient and modern are juxtaposed side by side in this city of 10 million. Catch a metro from one of the ornate stations to see Red Square, the Kremlin, the nine domes of St. Basil's Cathedral, Lenin's Mausoleum, the KGB Museum and other symbols of Moscow's great and terrible past, then lighten up and shop Boulevard Ring or people watch in Pushkin Square.
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1. Monument to Baron Munchausen
2. Monument to Lesya Ukrainka
3. Fame Monument to the Participants of the Chernobyl AES Catstrophy Liquidation
4. Monument to the Russian Land Defenders
5. A.M. Butlerov Monument
6. A.P. Chekhov Monument
7. Triumphal Arch
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4.5 based on 141 reviews
The main Moscow's monument of the Patriotic War of 1812 and victory over Napoleon.
Reviewed By sergeyk147
We were here in January, during New Year's festivities. It was rather warm, practically no snow around, more like winter somewhere in France than in Russia. It's curious that a "predecessor" of this arch in Paris mentions battle at Borodino - a decisive clash of that 1812 war - as victory of the French while Russians claim it were them who took the upper hand. Well, strictly speaking, the former is right: Napoleon captured Moscow - his major goal and prize - several days later. Its inhabitants, however, preferred to arson it and turned the city into ashes which radically changed the course of the war and ultimately made the French emperor retreat from this "wrong" country. Yes, this Triumphal arch is not authentic. So what? Russians still revere those events as sacred. They call that war "Patriotic" and don't give a damn about what others think of it. In the end of the day, it was their army which - together with its allies - entered Paris in 1814, didn't it? Recommended.
8. Monument to Yevgeny Leonov
9. Monument to Walt Whitman
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4.5 based on 6 reviews
10. Monument to Valentina Grizodubova
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