Moscow 2001

Countryside Kaliningrad Moscow 1963 Moscow 1995 Moscow 2001 Moscow 2007 Saint Petersburg

Moscow 2001

A day in the city
April 24, 2001

 

St Basil's Cathedral

 

Kuzma Minin and Prince Dmitry Pozharsky
(led the army that ejected the occupying
 Poles from the Kremlin in 1612)

 

Kazan Cathedral

 

Marshall Zhukov statue in front of
 the State History Museum

 

Honor guard for the Unknown Soldier

 

Kremlin tower
(Kremlin Palace of Congresses in background)

 

Kremlin wall

 

South view of the Kremlin

 

GUM department store

 

Monument to Peter the great

 

detail of Peter

 

Christ the Savior Cathedral
(rebuilt over the site of a swimming pool built by Stalin

 

Novodevichy Convent

 

statue of Brezhnev in statue park
Brezhnev, Leonid Ilich (1906-1982), general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) from 1964 to 1982. His time in office is noted as an era of both stability and stagnation in the domestic and foreign policies of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).

 

the "White House"
(House of Government of the Russian Federation)
as seen from my room on the 46th floor of the Ukraine Hotel

Moscow in 1963

Countryside Kaliningrad Moscow 1963 Moscow 1995 Moscow 2001 Moscow 2007 Saint Petersburg

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