Cosmonauts Alley
55°49′14″N 37°38′22″E / 55.82062°N 37.63933°E
Cosmonauts Alley (Russian: аллея Космонавтов) is a wide avenue in northern Moscow leading to the Russian Museum of Cosmonautics and the Monument to the Conquerors of Space . The pedestrian-only avenue connects the museum and monument to the VDNKh subway station.[1]
The park-like avenue is punctuated by large stone memorials of important figures in the Soviet space program. At its terminus below the monument, a larger-than-life statue of Soviet rocket pioneer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857–1935) sits facing back down the path. In 2008, Cosmonauts Alley was under a reconstruction, adding: A model of the Solar System, Monument of Sergey Korolev and star-shaped granite monuments which display important events in Russian cosmonautics.
Monuments
- Yuri Gagarin
- Valentina Tereshkova
- Pavel Belyayev
- Alexei Leonov
- Vladimir Komarov
- Valentin Glushko
- Mstislav Keldysh
- Sergey Korolyov
- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
- Valentin Lebedev
- Svetlana Savitskaya
- Alexander Alexandrov
- Vladimir Solovyov
Gallery
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Memorial of Mstislav Keldysh
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Cosmonauts Alley on Cosmonautics Day (2002) -
Model of the Solar System at the Cosmonauts Alley (Placed 2008)
References
- ^ Moon Moscow and St. Petersburg; J. Chater & N. Toohey, ed.; Public Affairs, 2009; p.127.
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