This one is picture heavy, but I just couldn't resist. I was out for a walk the other day after the archive closed, and stopped to snap some pictures. The first several are, if you use your imagination, a panorama of sorts, taken from a spot atop the ext of the Third Ring from a tunnel near Leninskii prospekt. The river is below and Moscow City in the distance in the first one, Luzhniki in the second, the university in the distance in the third, and the Academy of Sciences in the fourth. Oh, and the trees are the southwest end of Park Gorkogo.
This one is bad news, should one be foolish enough to actually drive in this city: "Average speed to the intersection with Kutuzovskii prospekt is less than 10 km/h., with Zvenigorodskoe shosse - more than 50 km/h." [Womp, womp.]
Not far from there is Gagarin Square. I just love the statue that stands [flies?] there as a monument to the first man in space. There's a picture of the statue from the front here. It has this rather odd Iron Man quality about it, but one which gives you the impression that the man flew himself into space
"Поехали!"
This one is bad news, should one be foolish enough to actually drive in this city: "Average speed to the intersection with Kutuzovskii prospekt is less than 10 km/h., with Zvenigorodskoe shosse - more than 50 km/h." [Womp, womp.]
Not far from there is Gagarin Square. I just love the statue that stands [flies?] there as a monument to the first man in space. There's a picture of the statue from the front here. It has this rather odd Iron Man quality about it, but one which gives you the impression that the man flew himself into space
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