USSR Tour
Description:
In the west of the capital between the rivers Setun and Filka is a gentle hill. In the old days, travelers coming to the city from this hill could see such a city and worship it. Hence the name – Poklonnaya Mountain in Moscow. The first mention of it is found in the annals of the 16th century. It was located on the Smolensk road and important milestones in the history of our Motherland are connected with it. In 1812 Napoleon was waiting for the keys to Moscow. On the same road soldiers went to the front during the Great Patriotic War.
The compositional center of Red Square - Mausoleum - a monument-tomb, in the Mourning Hall of which there is a crystal sarcophagus with the body of V.I. Lenin. As soon as it became known of his death, telegrams and letters began to arrive in the Central Committee of the Party and the Sovnarkom with a request not to surrender his body to the earth. At the mourning session of the Second Congress of Soviets, it was announced the decision of the CEC of the USSR to build a mausoleum near the Kremlin wall
Memorial Museum of Spacecraft
Here are collected personal belongings of cosmonauts and designers, real samples, full-scale models and models of space technology, spacesuits and flight clothing, onboard food, simulators, a collection of paintings, photographs, stamps and much more related to the development of outer space.
All-Russian Exhibition Center (VVC)
Exhibition complex in the North-Eastern district of Moscow, the second largest exhibition complex in Moscow.
The total area of the territory of VDNKh after the merger of the territory of VDNKh with the Botanical Garden and Ostankino Park in the spring of 2014