Summary
Coordinates: 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 reconstruction, adding a model of the solar system, monument to Sergey Korolev, and star-shaped granite monuments displaying important events in Russian cosmonautics.
Monuments
Gallery
Memorial of Mstislav Keldysh
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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