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 Lenin dead body by xaver
Expect a huge queu before entering as it's always full of people wishing to go.
After the queu you will find the metal detector check point.You are not supposed to not take with you in the mausoleum any camera, mobile phone with camera and so on.
You can leave he things you are not allowed to take, in a deposit at the left side of the check point.After visited the mausoleum you can visit the rest of the cimiter where Stalin Gagarin and some more important russian personalities' tombs are.Then you can only exit at the opposite side of the square, you are not allowed to go back directly to the deposit.So you have to go around the square and then back to the queu point and after you show the deposit ticket, they let you go and take your stuffs back(a nonsense for me).
Remember o go back at the deposit ebfore 2 pm as the office closes at that time.
The mausoleum entry is free and it's opened every day but friday since 10 to 13.
All in all if you want my personal opinion, you can just avoid this mausoleum and its terrible ques, I'd save time for other places I missed if I could. Leave a Comment Directions: center
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in Red Square in Moscow (Arch. A.V.Shchusev) is the tomb of V.I.Lenin, and is one of the masterpieces of the Soviet architechture. The first (temporary, wooden) building was opened January 27 1924, near the Senate Tower of the Kremlin in Red Square. Two months later the temporary wooden Mausoleum was closed, and the construction of the new wooden Mausoleum began and lasted March through August 1924. Five years later, the construction of the stone Mausoleum began (July 1929 - October 1930). In plan, the stone Mausoleum is practically the same as the wooden building. Visitors enter the main entrance and descend the left 3m wide staircase (the walls are faced with labradorite) into the memorial hall. The hall is cubic in form (face length is 10m) with a step-like ceiling. A wide black labradorite band with red porphyritic pilasters on it runs round the periphery of the hall. To the right of the pilasters run the bands of black polished labradorite, with zigzag bright red smalta strips between them. Visitors move along the low podium around the sarcophagus from the three sides, exit the memorial hall, ascend the right staircase and exit the Mausoleum through the door in the right wall. Constructively, the frame of the building is reinforced concrete; the walls are filled with brick and faced with polished marble, labradorite, porphyry, and granite. The length of the Mausoleum facade is 24m, the height 12m. The top portico is shifted to the Kremlin wall (in the wooden Mausoleum, it was shifted to the facade). The Mausoleum pyramid consists of five projections of different height (in the wooden building they were six). In 1945 a tribune for top officials was arranged on the first projection. Admission is on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday, from 10.00 a.m. till 1.00 p.m. Leave a Comment
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 Least we forget by TheWanderingCamelLeave a Comment Directions: At the foot of the Arsenal Tower
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 change of guard by xaver
There is also a neverending fire near the tomb and the change of the guard here happens to be any hour.If you really want to take a photo of the change of the guard, prepare to be there at least 20 minuts before as it’s always full of curios and, as I said, there are often also wedding couples too. Leave a Comment Directions: center
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Along the western kremlin wall there are the Alexander gardens.The coloured grass and flowers and the great view on Kremlin, make this place one of the Moscowites and tourist favourite places to have a walk.
I found these gardens full of people any time, really hard to find a seat before 5 pm when Kremlin closes.On the opposite side of the gardens there are some nice fountains with mosaics and the popular first Mc Donald in Russia. Leave a Comment Directions: center
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The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier commemorates the soldiers of the Soviet Armywho perished at the front during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.The memorial was erected under the supervision of architects D.Burdin,V.Klimov and Yu.Rabayev. The sculptor was V.Tomsky. On the black graniteslab burns the "eternal flame of glory". The inscription reads:
Your name is unknown
but your deed is eternal
The porphyry blocks, beside which the guard of honourstands, contain earth from the cities which were awarded the designation"hero city" after the Second World War. Leave a Comment Address: Aleksandrovsky gardenDirections: Red sq metro - Ohotnui ryad
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 Ghosts by TheWanderingCamelLeave a Comment Directions: They are usually by the Resurrection Gate.
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 Zhukov statue by TheWanderingCamelLeave a Comment Directions: center
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 In and out by TheWanderingCamel
The tiny chapel of the Iverian Virgin (named for the icon it was built to house) in front of the gate is usually open and is much loved by Muscovites visiting the square. Leave a Comment Directions: center
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