Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #11 in Moscow, Russia

Viktor Nikolayevich Leonov was a Soviet Navy officer and twice Hero of the Soviet Union. Considered a legend in the Soviet era after the war, he frequently gave speeches to Communist organizations about the war, but he became obscure after the fall of the Soviet Union.

Wikipedia: Viktor Leonov (EN)

The Postscriptum Theater Studio is a Moscow studio theater that has existed since 1974. There is an acting studio at the theater.

Wikipedia: Театр-студия Постскриптум (RU), Website

Tatyana Mikhailovna Lioznova was a Soviet film director and screenwriter best known for her TV series Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973).

Wikipedia: Tatyana Lioznova (EN)

The Moscow Museum of Animation is the first international animation museum in Russia, opened in 2006 by employees of the Soyuzmultfilm film studio. The collection of exhibits is related to the history of the development of animation and animation in Russia and abroad. Currently, the main exposition is located on the territory of the Izmailovo Kremlin, and the museum also owns the VDNKh pavilion "House of Culture", which is closed for repairs until 2018. The founder is animator Leonid Aronovich Shvartsman. The director of the museum is Larisa Evgenievna Vyborgova.

Wikipedia: Московский музей анимации (RU)

The Stone Flower Fountain stands in the so-called "Industrial Square" of the Exhibition of Economic Achievements (VDNH) in Moscow, Russia. It was named and designed after the eponymous flower from Pavel Bazhov's fairy-tale "The Stone Flower".

Wikipedia: The Stone Flower Fountain (EN)

The Ukraine Pavilion is the 58th pavilion of VDNKh, built in 1950-1954. Until 1964 it was called the Ukrainian SSR.

Wikipedia: Павильон «Украина» на ВДНХ (RU)

Belorussky Pavillion at the Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy in Moscow ― construction of an original structure; is a permanent exhibition to promote the achievements of agriculture, science, technology and culture of the Republic of Belarus.

Wikipedia: Белорусский павильон (ВДНХ) (RU)

The Radio Electronics and Communications Pavilion, in 1954-1958 — the Volga Region Pavilion — a reconstructed pavilion at VDNKh.

Wikipedia: Павильон № 15 «Радиоэлектроника и связь» на ВДНХ (RU)

The Azerbaijan Pavilion is the fourteenth pavilion of VDNKh, built in 1939 and reconstructed in 1967. Initially, it was called "Azerbaijan SSR", after 1964 - "Computer Engineering".

Wikipedia: Павильон № 14 «Вычислительная техника» на ВДНХ (RU)

The Roerich Museum is a museum in Moscow dedicated to the life and artistic work of the Roerich family.

Wikipedia: Музей Рерихов (RU), Website

BTS-001 OK-ML-1, Product 0.01, BTS-01 is a full-size test mock-up of the Buran orbiter, designed to test the air transportation of the orbital complex, as well as for repeated static strength tests. In 1993, after the development of materials for the first flight of Buran and the subsequent actual closure of the program, it was converted into a scientific and educational attraction Buran: Space Travel and delivered to the Gorky Park of Culture and Leisure on Frunzenskaya Embankment in Moscow.

Wikipedia: БТС-001 ОК-МЛ-1 (RU)

The Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines is a private historical interactive museum that keeps a collection of arcade machines that were produced in the USSR from the mid-1970s. April 13, 2007 is considered to be the foundation day of the museum. Visitors of the museum are given 15-kopeck coins at the entrance to get the arcade machines started. The ticket price also includes an excursion.

Wikipedia: Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines (EN), Website

Pavilion No. 59 "Grain" - one of the pavilions of VDNH.

Wikipedia: Павильон «Зерно» (RU)

Pavilion No. 64 Optics is one of VDNH's pavilions.

Wikipedia: Павильон «Ленинград и Северо-Запад РСФСР» на ВДНХ (RU)

The Pavilion “Culture” is the 66th VDNH pavilion, built in 1954 as the Uzbek SSR pavilion. The name "Culture" received in 1964.

Wikipedia: Павильон Узбекской ССР (Культура) на ВДНХ (RU)

The Fontan "Friends of the Peoples" is the main fountain and one of the main symbols of VDNKh. It was created for the opening of VDNKh in 1954 according to the project of Konstantin Topuridze and Grigory Konstantinovsky. It is located on the Central Alley, on the Friendship of Peoples Square, next to the Main Pavilion. The fountain has been closed for restoration since the beginning of autumn 2018, reopened in April 2019.

Wikipedia: Дружба народов (фонтан) (RU)

The Karelia Pavilion is a building built in 1954 as the Karelian-Finnish SSR pavilion for the exposition of the achievements of the KFSSR at the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition.

Wikipedia: Павильон Карело-Финской ССР (Карелия) на ВДНХ (RU)

The Moscow Pavilion was designed as an exhibition pavilion for the Soviet Union at the international exhibition Expo 67 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The project was designed by a team of architects led by Mikhail Posokhin. Since the 1990s, the pavilion has been commonly called the Moscow Pavilion.

Wikipedia: Moscow Pavilion (EN)