THE 10 BEST Moscow Monuments & Statues
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- BrakiWorldTravelerBelgrade, Serbia17,760 contributionsThis solemn monument stands along the western Kremlin walls by the Alexander Gardens.
The monument is made of red granite with a helmet and flag in honor of all who lost their lives during WWII.Written May 11, 2021This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews. - Nikolai VLondon, UK67 contributionsA statue that will be familiar to anyone who's watched a Russian/Soviet film pre-nineties. The rest of VDNKh is worth a look as well, especially the Vostok rocket, if you're into retro Soviet chic.Written December 31, 2021This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews.
- Takarasina2,101 contributionsWe visited the place together with our grandchildren in January, during New Year holidays. It was dark and both figures were beautifully illuminated.
I agree that it is deadly overshadowed by the stunning St Basil's Cathedral. The author of the monument felt it and it was therefore he insisted that his creation must be placed in the middle of the Red Square, by the (nowadays) GUM department store. It were obscurantist communists who moved it later to its modern place.
Anyhow, these two gentlemen really mean a lot for us Russians since they virtually saved our country from total loss of its sovereignty at the moment when it was almost defunct. Never again was Russia in such a danger - maybe only after Hitler's attack.
Strongly recommended!Written January 7, 2021This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews. - BrakiWorldTravelerBelgrade, Serbia17,760 contributionsThe Moscow Triumphal Arch stands in the middle of Kutuzov Av. in the western part of the capital. The avenue is named after the Russian Imperial forces General commander who defeated Napoleon in 1812 (although that issue is little bit questionable, as both sides have their views).
You will arrive here by metro and exit at one of the most beautiful and the deepest station of Moscow - Park Pobedy, which is the first reason.
Second reason is the Triumphal Arch itself - not that magnificent as the Paris' Arc de Triomphe, but still very nice. For best pics use the pedestrian underground passageway, as the Arch is in the middle of the Av. dividing traffic directions. There're several chronologic plaques explaining the Patriotic war around the Arch.
Third reason is the Borodino battle panorama museum, 5 min walk from it (read in separate review).
Fourth reason is the terrific Victory park with its museum (read also in a separate review).
If visiting all, count on at least 3 hours.Written May 9, 2021This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews. - BrakiWorldTravelerBelgrade, Serbia17,760 contributionsThe moment you exit the metro station VDNH, you spot this tall and elegant monument. It stands atop the Museum of Cosmonautics beneath it (read that review).
Russians are very proud on their space program so they built this entire area in honor of Gagarin and others who contributed to their success.
I suggest walking the Cosmonauts Alley first with monuments to famous Russians in space, in the middle of which is our Solar system monument with all planets. Behind it rises this launching rocket monument. Very impressive.Written May 12, 2021This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews. - Alexander_KudrinSamara, Russia9,233 contributionsThe monument to Marshal of Victory Zhukov, as it were, greets Muscovites and guests of the capital, who are walking from Okhotny Ryad to the Kremlin.
As in 1945, he meets troops about to parade through Red Square.
It is located opposite the State Historical Museum and blends in very well with the surroundings.Written June 9, 2022This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews. - Takarasina2,101 contributionsI walked there a few days ago, in the middle of June.
A pretty short street offering many alternatives to relax and/or do some shopping. Various statues of famous Russians - a playwright, a writer, a composer, a theater practitioner - stay virtually at every corner.
Cozy.Written June 23, 2023This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews. - Takarasina2,101 contributionsSince Russians first celebrate New Year and only then (Orthodox) Xmas, it is a real focus (well, one of them) of almost two-week-long festivities in downtown Moscow. The best time to go there!
As a Muscovite, I visit it quite often, last time being in mid-August. It was a weekday, so the square was bustling with people - mums with baby carriages, pensioners, students, business plankton, tourists (mainly Russian, from province) and whoever one can imagine to criss-cross it during working hours. Frankly speaking, there's not so much of interest to a foreign idler there bar Pushkin statue, of course (one of the oldest in town, by the way).
To be visited only if you're on your way to the Kremlin, Red Square and surrounding attractions, for example. Otherwise don't waste your time - there are numerous much more thrilling places in this amazing metropolis.Written October 5, 2022This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews. - Tas GAthens, Greece1,423 contributionsA very magnificent monument in an area a little bit far from the center and a little bit busy from traffic. A huge monument where you need to turn your head up to see it.
A real big monument for a real big man of history of mankind!!!Written November 25, 2018This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews. - Takarasina2,101 contributionsAlexander Pushkin, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy - these names are well-known to anyone who is interested in Russia.
Not many foreigners know that Pushkin's ancestors came from Africa - most experts say that from Ethiopia but some claim that from Cameroon. One way or another, everybody agrees that he's the father of both modern Russian language and Russian literature.
To my mind, this monument which I visited together with my grandchildren in January, during New Year holidays, is the most elegant in Moscow. There were so many joyful people around, everybody smiled, enjoyed snowy but mild weather and I thought that our great poet would have loved to see this merry crowd around him. He was such a lover of life himself, after all...
Strongly recommended!Written January 7, 2021This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews. - Takarasina2,101 contributionsBecause his mother was Gytha of Wessex, daughter of Harald Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England. I bet practically no-one, either in my country or abroad, knows it.
Since I live in Moscow, I saw this monument maybe several hundred times. Last time I did it was in December when the square around was being adorned with magnificent New Year illumination and shimmering decorations. This spot is one of the most beautiful in the city these days, by the way.
Looking at this gentleman's equestrian statue I thought that he had not looked as gorgeous as a Soviet sculptor depicted him. The prince had not been tall, just about 160 centimeters, and suffered from osteochondrosis and spinal disc herniation. It's also funny to note that, while not founding Moscow at all, he just invited in that very 1147 one of his cronies to a party in that small settlement - i.e., to booze - and it was this "historic" event that was fixed by a medieval Russian chronicler. (Not a word about next day's hangover, though.)
Still, I like the monument and consider it a real decoration of the city. Strange that communists created such a beauty.Written December 30, 2020This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews. - Takarasina2,101 contributionsAs well as your soul and every-damn-thing inside you that can feel pain.
Who, except for us Russians, remembers today the first of September of 2004? Terrorist attack on a school in Ossetia, Northern Caucasus, 1,128 hostages seized, most of them children, 331 died including 186 boys and girls.
Me and my wife walked across central Moscow and stumbled upon this extraordinary piece of art in February. A tribute to killed kids... We were electrified by pain. We had watched that tragedy live, on TV. Exhausted, half-naked children scared to death to such an extent that they could not walk. Our soldiers bringing them out of that inferno in their own hands, covering them with their own bodies - undefended from behind.
Thank you, Mr Tsereteli! Your architectural sins against Moscow are enormous but by this monument you've at least tried to atone for them.
Please hold on for a couple of minutes, take off your hat and bow your head. One hundred and eighty-six innocent souls perished among bullets of grown-up bearded cannibals, after all...Written February 26, 2021This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews. - Takarasina2,101 contributionsEvery Russian knows this melody...
The last time I saw that heartbreaking composition was in early October.
I was on my way to a shuttle train that would take me to the Sheremetyevo International Airport (still functioning notwithstanding the Western sanctions) and couldn't but pause for a moment to admire that amazing work of art.
Slavyanka means "Slav woman" in Russian. My country has fought nearly constant conflicts throughout its more than a millennium of history, so such scenes could be observed everywhere and at any time. The monument, however, is dedicated to WWI and WWII events.
One of my faves in my hometown.
A can't miss!Written January 12, 2024This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews. - drogilmourGuatemala City, Guatemala2,709 contributionsWhen walking towards Gorkyi park we saw Peter’s statue and decided to visit in first. We were on the other embankment so we walked towards the bridge, made it into the Red October factory district and reached a fence. The naval sculpture is off-limits, no wonder tourist buses simply drive by on the embankment opposite Muzeon and leave.
We got great shots from the embankment at Muzeon.Written December 15, 2019This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews. - Alexander_KudrinSamara, Russia9,233 contributionsThe monument is located right in the center of Russian capital directly opposite the Kremlin and Borovitskaya metro station. A very beautiful place and the monument itself. A disproportionately low monument, the prince stands as if on a stool.Written April 7, 2021This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews.
Frequently Asked Questions about Moscow
- These places are best for monuments & statues in Moscow:
- Tomb of Unknown Soldier
- Worker and Kolkhoz Woman
- Triumphal Arch
- Monument to Conquerors of Space
- Kamergerskiy Lane
- These are the best places for kid-friendly monuments & statues in Moscow:
- Worker and Kolkhoz Woman
- Minin & Pozharsky Monument
- Monument to Conquerors of Space
- Tomb of Unknown Soldier
- Triumphal Arch
- These are the best places for couples seeking monuments & statues in Moscow:
- Tomb of Unknown Soldier
- Kamergerskiy Lane
- Pushkin Monument
- Monument to Pushkin And Goncharova
- Monument Farewell of Slavyanka
- These are the best places for groups seeking monuments & statues in Moscow:
- Worker and Kolkhoz Woman
- Monument to Conquerors of Space
- Tomb of Unknown Soldier
- Monument to Marshal Zhukov
- Pushkin Monument
- These are the best places for budget-friendly monuments & statues in Moscow:
- Worker and Kolkhoz Woman
- Minin & Pozharsky Monument
- Monument to Conquerors of Space
- Tomb of Unknown Soldier
- Triumphal Arch
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