The monument to Le Corbusier is located in front of the Tsentrosoyuz building on Myasnitskaya Street. This is the only building erected by the architect in Moscow. The sculpture was unveiled on October 15, 2015. The authors of the monument: sculptor Andrey…

Monument to A. N. Ostrovsky – a monument to the Russian writer Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky. Installed in Moscow on Teatralnaya Square in front of the Maly Theatre in 1929. Sculptor – Nikolai Andreev, architect – Fedor Shekhtel. The sculpture is made…

“Worker and Kolkhoz Woman” is a monument of monumental art, “an ideal and symbol of the Soviet era,” a recognized “standard of socialist realism.” It is a sculptural group of two figures, male and female, who are directed forward and raise a sickle and a…

Lobnoye Mesto is a medieval Russian architecture monument in Moscow on Red Square. It was presumably created in the 16th century, and until 1917 it was used for religious processions during Orthodox holidays and for the public announcement of royal decrees.…

Monument to Minin and Pozharsky is a sculptural monument dedicated to the leaders of the Second People’s Militia of 1612, the end of the Time of Troubles, and the expulsion of Polish invaders from Russia. It is the first major sculptural monument in Moscow.…

The sculpture “Diver” is a kind of navigation lighthouse made as a figure of a diver. Author: Leonid Tishkov based on the idea of Vera Mukhina. Material: bronze. Height: 3 meters. The sculpture was installed on May 5, 2016, in Moscow, Gorky Park, Pushkinskaya…

The monument to Peter the Great (official name is the Monument “To commemorate the 300th anniversary of the Russian fleet”) by Zurab Tsereteli was erected in 1997 by order of the Moscow Government on an artificial island, poured at the division of the Moscow…

The monument to the great Russian poet of the era of Russian futurism Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893 – 1930), was erected in 1958 in Moscow on Mayakovsky Square (now Triumfalnaya Square). The authors of the monument are sculptor Alexander Kibalnikov and architect…

The Monument to Vladimir Kozmich Zworykin. The sculptural composition “V. Zworykin – the inventor of television” by sculptor Sergei Goryaev and architect Alexei Tikhonov was installed near the Ostankino pond next to the Ostankino television center in 2013…

Monument to Suvorov – a sculpture in honor of the great Russian commander, Generalissimo Alexander Suvorov, on the square of the same name in Moscow. In 1977, the Council of Ministers of the USSR decided to build a monument to Suvorov in Moscow. On the 250th…

Monument to Yuri Dolgoruky – a sculptural monument to the founder of Moscow, the first Suzdal prince (later also the Grand Duke of Kyiv). Installed in 1954 on Tverskaya Square (from 1918 to 1993, it was called Sovetskaya), opposite the building of the Moscow…

The monument to Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin, the work of Alexander Mikhailovich Opekushin, was erected in Moscow on June 6 (18), 1880. The monument is made of bronze. It was initially installed at the beginning of Tverskoy Boulevard on Strastnaya Square…

Monument to Mikhail Kalashnikov – a monument by the sculptor Salavat Shcherbakov (or Chtcherbakov), dedicated to the creator of the Kalashnikov assault rifle, Mikhail Kalashnikov. It is in Oruzheyny Square at the intersection of Oruzheyny Lane and Dolgorukovskaya…

The monument to Alexander Trifonovich Tvardovsky is installed next to the building that houses the editorial office of the Novy Mir magazine, in which he worked as editor-in-chief from 1950-1954 and 1958-1970. The place on Strastnoy Boulevard (Moscow) was…

The monument to Vladimir the Great is a monumental structure erected on Borovitskaya Square in Moscow at the initiative of the Russian Military Historical Society and the city government. The opening ceremony took place on November 4, 2016. Architectural…

The monument to Maya Plisetskaya is the work of sculptor Viktor Mitroshin, installed in the center of Moscow, in Maya Plisetskaya Square, in 2015. The square, named after the ballerina, appeared on Bolshaya Dmitrovka in 2015 on the site of a wasteland formed…

The monument to Nadezhda Krupskaya is located on Sretensky Boulevard in Moscow. It’s made as a standing female figure draped with fabric. Behind the figure are two 10-meter pylons on which the dates of life and quotes from her speeches are inscribed. The…

Monument to Timiryazev – a monument to the natural scientist and specialist in plant physiology Kliment Timiryazev. The monument was erected in 1923 in Moscow on Tverskoy Boulevard near Nikitsky Gate Square. The authors of the monument are sculptor Sergey…

Red Square is the main square of Moscow, located between the Moscow Kremlin (to the west) and Kitay-Gorod (to the east). It goes to the bank of the Moskva River through the gentle Vasilyevsky Spusk. The square stretches along the northeastern wall of the…

Garden Ring (Russian: Садовое кольцо) is a circular arterial system of streets in the center of Moscow. Length – 15.6 km, width – 60-70 m. The Ring consists of seventeen individually named streets and fifteen squares. The Garden Ring is a direct descendant…

Tverskaya Street is the main street of Moscow in the Tverskoy district of the Central Administrative District. It runs from Manezhnaya Square to Triumphalnaya Square. The street originated as a road to Tver, a section of which within the boundaries of Moscow…