VDNKH, Exterior

I recommend that you start your visit by going through the main entrance, unmistakably marked by a magnificent five-bay triumphal arch, topped with a large golden statue of a tractor driver next to a farmer, symbols of the Russian economy.

Before going through to the park, you will immediately notice a sort of futuristic obelisk, 100 meters tall and truly extraordinary: this is the monument dedicated to Russian astronauts and represents the contrail from a launched rocket, visible at the top of the structure.

There are busts of famous Russian astronauts around it and in front is a monument dedicated to Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, a leading Russian scientist in the field of astronautics. The Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics is at the base.

Nearby, there is an enormous 24-meter sculpture which is one of the most famous symbols of Russia in the world: "Worker and Kolkhoz Woman"...