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 |