Cosmonauts Alley
Appearance
55°49′14″N 37°38′22″E / 55.82062°N 37.63933°E
Cosmonauts Alley
аллея Космонавтов | |
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Pedestrian zone | |
![]() Cosmonauts Alley (2018) | |
Features | Monuments to individual cosmonauts, Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics, Monument to the Conquerors of Space, VDNKh subway station |
Design | Mikhail Barshch, Alexander Kolchin |
Opening date | October 4, 1967 |
Length | 250 metres (820 ft) |
Dedicated to | Soviet space program |
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Russian cultural heritage register: 771620657220006[1] |
Cosmonauts Alley (Russian: аллея Космонавтов) is a wide avenue in northern Moscow leading to the Russian Memorial 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.[2]
Monuments
[edit]- 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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Cosmonauts Alley on Cosmonautics Day (2002)
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Model of the Solar System at the Cosmonauts Alley (Placed 2008)
References
[edit]- ^ "Cosmonauts Alley". Russian cultural heritage register. Retrieved April 22, 2025.
- ^ Moon Moscow and St. Petersburg; J. Chater & N. Toohey, ed.; Public Affairs, 2009; p.127.
Categories:
- Streets in Moscow
- Outdoor sculptures in Moscow
- Soviet and Russian space program locations
- History of spaceflight
- Monuments and memorials built in the Soviet Union
- Tourist attractions in Moscow
- Monuments and memorials to Yuri Gagarin
- Alexei Leonov
- Monuments and memorials to explorers
- Monuments and memorials in Moscow
- Cultural heritage monuments of federal significance in Moscow