The pedestrian-only avenue connects the museum of Cosmonautics and monument to the VDNKh subway station
Cosmonauts Alley is a wide avenue in northern Moscow leading to the Russian Museum of Cosmonautics and the Monument to the Conquerors of Space.
Memorial of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Vladimir OKC, Public DomainThe park-like avenue is punctuated by large stone memorials of important figures in the Soviet space program.
Cosmonauts Alley on Cosmonautics Day (2002) Errabee, CC BY-SA 2.5MonumentsAt its terminus below the monument, a larger-than-life statue of Soviet rocket pioneer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857–1935) sits facing back down the path.
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Cosmonauts Alley
Russian: аллея Космонавтов
