Monument to the Conquerors of Space!
Monument to the Conquerors of Space!
Built in 1964 just at the entrance to the All-Russias evhibition, teh VDNKh, this is an
extraordinary monument housing a full museum in the mound beneath. It is all clad in
shiny stainless steel.
In March 1958, a few months after the launch of Sputnik 1, a competition was announced
for the best design of an obelisk celebrating the dawn of the Space Age. Out of some 350
proposals, the design by sculptor A.P. Faidysh-Krandievsky and architects A.N. Kolchin
and M.O. Barshch was chosen. The grand opening of the monument took place on
October 4, 1964, on the day of the 7th anniversary of the Sputnik 1 launch.
Since the 1960s, this part of Moscow in general has had a high concentration of space-
themed sights and names: besides the monument and the museum under it, the grand
"Cosmos" pavilion in the Exhibition Centre displayed many artifacts of the Soviet space
program
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