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Red Sq. - Kremlin area/Manezhnaya Sq.: Lenin mausoleum
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  • xaver
  • By xaver on May 5, 2006
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  • Lenin dead body - Moscow
    Lenin dead body
    by xaver
    One of the most important monument in the red square is lenin mausoleum.
    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.

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    Red Sq. - Kremlin area/Manezhnaya Sq.: Lenin Mausoleum
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  • By kris-t on December 2, 2005
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  • Red sq - Moscow
    Red sq
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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.

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  • Address: Red sq, Moscow
  • Directions: center of city
  • Website: http://www.lenin.ru/index_e.htm
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    Red Sq. - Kremlin area/Manezhnaya Sq.: Honouring the Dead
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  • Updated By TheWanderingCamel on July 17, 2005
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  • Least we forget - Moscow
    Least we forget
    by TheWanderingCamel
    The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the northern end of the Alexandrovsky Gardens that run along the west side of the Kremlin is a place of national pilgrimage. An eternal flame burns before the tomb that honours all the fallen, and along the path there are plaques naming the cities that bore the brunt of the fighting. The guard here changes every hour with much precision and almost balletic formality.

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  • Directions: At the foot of the Arsenal Tower
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    Red Sq. - Kremlin area/Manezhnaya Sq.: The unknown solder monument
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  • By xaver on May 5, 2006
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  • change of guard - Moscow
    change of guard
    by xaver
    On the north of the Alexander gardens there is the tomb of the unknown solder, this became a sort of natiolìnal peligrimage place, infact even new wedding couples come here to leave flowers and take some photos as a wish of luck. In the tomb there is a solder dead in 1941 at kilometre 41 of Leningradskoe, the poit closer to Moscow reached by nazists.
    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.

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    Red Sq. - Kremlin area/Manezhnaya Sq.: Alexander gardens
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  • By xaver on May 5, 2006
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  • gardens - Moscow
    gardens
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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.

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    Red Sq. - Kremlin area/Manezhnaya Sq.: The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
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  • Updated By kris-t on March 8, 2007
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  • Red Sq. - Kremlin area/Manezhnaya Sq. - Moscow
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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.

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  • Address: Aleksandrovsky garden
  • Directions: Red sq metro - Ohotnui ryad
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    Red Sq. - Kremlin area/Manezhnaya Sq.: Living ghosts
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  • Updated By TheWanderingCamel on July 17, 2005
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  • Ghosts - Moscow
    Ghosts
    by TheWanderingCamel
    One of the clearest signs that the past is the past is the sight of Lenin, Marx and Tsar Nicholas standing around together waiting to have their photos taken with tourists. These enterprising lookalikes, who really do look the part, will relieve you of 200 roubles for a souvenir of your visit to Moscow like no other.

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  • Directions: They are usually by the Resurrection Gate.
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    Red Sq. - Kremlin area/Manezhnaya Sq.: The nation's hero
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  • Updated By TheWanderingCamel on March 27, 2006
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  • Zhukov statue - Moscow
    Zhukov statue
    by TheWanderingCamel
    The northern approach to Red Square is a lively area where there always seems to be a crowd and something going on. Overlooking it all is the mounted statue of Marshall Zhukov, the USSR's wartime hero who accepted the surrender of Berlin, captured here in bronze just as he looked when he led the army in to Red Square for the Victory Parade at the end of WWII, or, as it is known in Russia -The Great Patriotic War.

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    Red Sq. - Kremlin area/Manezhnaya Sq.: Resurrection Gate
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  • Updated By TheWanderingCamel on October 21, 2006
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  • In and out - Moscow
    In and out
    by TheWanderingCamel
    The twin steeples of the Resurrection Gate leading in to Red Square are once again topped with the golden double- headed eagles that were the symbol of Imperial Russia. The gate you see now is another of the replicas that have been built to replace the buildings destroyed by Stalin - this one because it was in the way of the great parades he loved to stage on the square.
    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.

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    Red Sq. - Kremlin area/Manezhnaya Sq.: Center of the world
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  • Updated By brmi on January 19, 2004
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  • Girl standing in the center - Moscow
    Girl standing in the center
    by brmi
    They say it is center of the world. Well you can step in and took picture. So You can sey to everyone that you have been in the center of the world. I've been waiting for a while and there was a lot of people, so I haven't step in the center, but I was close.

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