Our last hours in Moscow
we decided to spend in the VVT park, the Russian Exhibition Centre.
The park is famous for it's iconic monuments from the Soviet era.
Grandiose Stalinist pavilions were once meant to glorify Soviet
Union.
To get there is very easy.
Take the yellow metro line to the north, the ВДНХ station. Once
outside you'll see the first monument: Space Obelisk. It's hard to
miss, because he sticks high above the metro exit. Walk in that
direction and you'll see the entrance to the park. Near the obelisk
is a cosmonauts museum, which seem to be worth visiting. I have only
seen the outside area. When you pass the great gate of the park,
you'll see al the pavilions. In the middle of the square there is a
big Fountain of the Friendship of Peoples, which represents the
sixteen Soviet republics:
- Russia
- Ukraine
- Uzbekistan
- Kazakhstan
- Belarus
- Azerbaijan
- Georgia
- Tajikistan
- Moldova
- Kyrgyzstan
- Lithuania
- Turkmenistan
- Armenia
- Latvia
- Estonia
- Karelo-Finnish SSR
Everything points to the
former pride of the great country and its variety of nationalities.
That's pretty ironic, because Muscovites are not particularly
tolerant of the countries that used to be part of soviet union.
Travelers who are looking to the faded grandeur of soviet union can
have a good time here.
After having enough of the
communist symbols we returned back in the hart of downtown where I
did some shopping at GUM. And then we headed home to get ready for
the train journey.
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