 Hotel Cosmos |
 Soviet Space Flight Monument, 1964 |
 100m tall titanium structure |
 At the top is a small rocket |
 It resembles the launch of a rocket |
 Base of the Soviet Space Flight Monument |
 Soviet Space Flight Monument |
 Soviet Space Flight Monument |
 Soviet Space Flight Monument |
 Soviet Space Flight Monument |
 Soviet Space Flight Monument |
 Soviet Space Flight Monument |
 Cosmonaut |
 Soviet Space Flight Monument |
 MoscowAug05 035.JPG |
 Soviet Space Flight Monument |
 Soviet Space Flight Monument |
 Surely in the Soviet days, you would not find grafitti on such a monument |
 Soviet Space Flight Monument |
 Soviet Space Flight Monument |
 Soviet Space Flight Monument |
 Tsiolkovskiy, the founder of cosmonautics |
 Cosmonautics Museum |
 Cosmonautics Museum |
 Cosmonautics Museum |
 Cosmonautics Museum |
 Soviet spacesuit, Cosmonautics Museum |
 Sputnik, Cosmonautics Museum |
 Cosmonaut memorial in the museum |
 Soviet space suit |
 Cosmonautics Museum |
 Tiny capsule |
 Soviet cosmonaut spacesuit |
 Dog in Space program |
 US-USSR Cooperation on Apollo-Soyuz |
 US-USSR Cooperation on Apollo-Soyuz |
 Cosmonautics Museum |
 In the name of Peace and Progress, In Glory of our Motherland |
 Cosmonautics Museum |
 Soviet emblem and flag |
 USSR-Bulgaria cooperation |
 Vietnam in space |
 Area around VDNKh Metro |
 Area around VDNKh Metro |
 Area around VDNKh Metro |
 Currency exchange rates Aug 2005 |
 Monumental gate way to the Exhibition of Soviet Economic Achievements |
 VDNKh |
 Ferris wheel at VDNKh celebrating 850 years since Moscow's founding |
 Gateway to VDNKh (Vuh-Den-Kha) |
 VDNKh |
 Looking from the gate to VDNKh back to the Hotel Cosmos |
 VDNKh |
 3rd Moscow City Festival of Flowers 25 June - 17 Sept 2005 |
 Kinderbahn |
 Map of the large area of VDHKh |
 Inside the main gate to VDNKh |
 Soviet symbols and art are still found at VDNKh |
 Even Lenin still stands proud at VDNKh |
 V.I. Lenin |
 V.I. Lenin |
 Soviet emblem, VDHKh |
 Central pavilion |
 Hammer and Sickle |
 VDHKh |
 VDHKh |
 VDHKh |
 Soyuz Sovyetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
 VDHKh |
 A Union Jack in Flowers at VDHKh |
 How times have changed... |
 Similar to the Admiralty in St. Petersburg |
 VDHKh |
 Fountain of the Friendship of the Peoples, VDHKh |
 Each of the statues represents one of the old Soviet Republics |
 Central fountain, VDHKh |
 Central fountain and the Armenia Pavilion |
 Armenia Pavilion |
 American flag in flowers, what would Lenin think? |
 VDHKh |
 VDHKh |
 VDHKh |
 Another pavilion at VDHKh |
 Fountain, VDHKh |
 Fountain, VDHKh |
 Fountain, VDHKh |
 Fountain, VDHKh |
 Fountain, VDHKh |
 Fountain, VDHKh |
 Fountain, VDHKh |
 VDHKh |
 Vostok rocket like the one Yuri Gagarin circled the earth with, 12 April 1961 |
 Soviet Vostok rocket (R-7A) |
 The R-7 was first launched in 1957 |
 Tupolev Tu-154, CCCP-85005 |
 Tupolev Tu-154, CCCP-85005 |
 Tupolev Tu-154, CCCP-85005 |
 YaK-42 CCCP-42304 |
 YaK-42 & R-7 rocket |
 YaK-42 and the Vostok (R-7) Rocket, VDNKh |
 Tu-154 and YaK-42 at VDNKh |
 Tu-154 and YaK-42 at VDNKh |
 Ostankino TV Tower (504m) |
 VDNKh |
 VDNKh |
 VDNKh |
 VDNKh |
 VDNKh |
 VDNKh |
 Colorful dachas at VDNKh |
 Fountain at VDNKh |
 Fountain at VDNKh |
 VDNKh |
 VDNKh |
 VDNKh |
 Armenia Pavilion, VDNKh |
 VDNKh |
 Pavilion #71 still bearing the Soviet crest |
 VDNKh |
 VDNKh |
 Lenin on one of the pavilions at VDNKh |
 VDNKh |
 VDNKh |
 VDNKh |
 Lenin and the Ostankino TV Tower |
 Memorial to World War II heros, VDHKh, Aug 2005 |
 Memorial to World War II heros |
 Memorial to World War II heros |
 Memorial to World War II heros |
 Memorial to World War II heros |
 Memorial to World War II heros |
 Memorial to World War II heros |
 Memorial to World War II heros |
 Memorial to World War II heros |
 Memorial to World War II heros |
 Memorial to World War II heros |
 Leaving VDNKh |