Triumphal Arch VDNKh
Sights to see 16.11.2019
The arch, like the famous Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, opens the Central Alley - the main axis of the exhibition city, which embodied the triumph of the Great Victory and the first successes in the post-war revival of the country.
At the top of the arch, “Tractor Driver and Collective Farm Girl” raises to a 32-meter high colossus - an allegory of heavy industry and agriculture.
The architect is Innokenty Melchakov. In 1939, he took part in the design of the Soviet pavilion at the World Exhibition in New York.
A completely creative team worked on the sculpture "Tractor Driver and Collective Farm Girl", which gained fame as the emblem of the Exhibition.
VDNH, Prospect Mira, 119
Astoria Hotel in St. Petersburg: Reader’s Choice Awards nominee
The American travel magazine Conde Nast Traveler annually compiles a rating of the best hotels in the world. The editors select the nominees for the long list, after which readers vote for them. The main value of the rating - it reflects the opinion of guests.
Monuments of Pskov on the Unesco World Heritage List
The application includes monuments of serf architecture - the Pokrovskaya and Gremyachaya towers of the Pskov fortress, ten churches of the XII-XVII centuries (including the ensemble of the Snetogorsky monastery, the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Mirozhsky monastery and others), as well as civil buildings of the XVII century - stone chambers of the merchant Pogankin and Prikaznaya Chamber of the Kremlin.
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