Spot the Lenin and Other Fun Things in Moscow

VDNKh (ВДНХ)

VDNKh, a showground in Soviet times, used to hold world exhibitions and is now just a park with plenty of rides and Soviet nostalgia. It used to hold the world’s greatest sculpture Worker and Kolhoznitsa (Рабочий и колхозница).

What better way to capture the moment than a snap of two cops in Soviet era uniforms in front of everyone’s favourite grandpa.

Fountains of VDNKh, unfortunately it’s so late in the year that they’ve already been switched off.

Yes, a real live Vostuk rocket for flying to space.

Fallen Monument Park

Located just outside of the New Tretyakov Gallery (not the one most people think of when you mention the Tretyakov Gallery).

World of Good.

USSR – Requirement for peace (Stalin and Lenin in the foreground).

Two Lenins and an Ivan.

Cosmonaut Museum

The Soviets sent the first dogs, the first man and the first woman into space. They also built the first space station which they subsequently destroyed. This is all covered in the museum. There is also mention of some barely significant capitalist pig mission in Apollo 11.

Read and envy, I am – a citizen of the USSR! (Читайте, завидуйте, я – гражданин советского союза!)

Other

The White House, in Moscow, Russia.

Gothic style Roman Catholic cathedral in Moscow (Located on Malaya Lubianka).

Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, destroyed by the Soviets to make the world’s largest statue of Lenin, however abandoned due to the Great Patriotic War (WWII). Replaced with a swimming pool and finally rebuilt after the collapse of the USSR.