- Cosmonauts Alley
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Coordinates: 55°49′14″N 37°38′22″E / 55.82062°N 37.63933°E
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 "alley" 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
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Memorial of Yuri Gagarin.
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Memorial of Valentina Tereshkova.
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Memorial of Pavel Belyayev.
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Memorial of Alexey Leonov.
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Memorial of Vladimir Komarov.
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Memorial of Valentin Glushko.
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Memorial of Mstislav Keldysh.
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Memorial of spaceship designer Sergey Korolyov.
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Memorial of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky.
Gallery
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Cosmonauts Alley on Cosmonautics Day (2002).
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Cosmonautics Day visitors gathered near bust of Yuri Gagarin
See also
References
- ^ Moon Moscow and St. Petersburg; J. Chater & N. Toohey, ed.; Public Affairs, 2009; p.127.
Categories:- Streets in Moscow
- Outdoor sculptures in Russia
- Soviet and Russian space program locations
- History of spaceflight
- Monuments and memorials built in the Soviet Union
- Visitor attractions in Moscow
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