Weapons of the Revolution

Photographs of weapons exhibited before the Central Museum of the Contemporary History of Russia in Moscow (the former Central Museum of the Revolution).

Dmitry Ivanov. 2014. CC-BY-SA 3.0. The description of the photo →
A de Bange 155 mm long cannon modèle 1877. France.
In 1917, during the Moscow Bolshevik Uprising, the cannon was used by the Lefortovo Detachment of the Moscow Red Guards.

Painted Snuffbox in the VDNKh

Dmitry Ivanov. 2015. CC-BY-SA 4.0. The description of the photo →
Moscow. VDNKh. Pavilion No. 35 Tobacco. General view. 1954. Architect V. N. Kondratiev.
Until the early 1990s the pavilion was used as a model tobacco shop. Now (2016) the building is in private ownership and used as a café.
Address: Russia, Москва, Проспект Мира, д. 119, стр. 35.

New Housing Estates in Korolyov.

Dmitry Ivanov. 2015. CC-BY-SA 4.0. The description of the photo →
Korolyov, Moscow Oblast.
The Status housing estate. 2014.
Address: Russia, Московская обл., г. Королёв, пр-т Королёва, д. 5Д.

Two Vostoks

Dmitry Ivanov. 2015. CC-BY-SA 4.0. The description of the photo → Moscow. VDNKh. The full-scale model of the Vostok 8K72K1 carrier rocket installed before Pavilion No. 32—34 Cosmos and Mechanical Engineering.		Dmitry Ivanov. 2015. CC-BY-SA 4.0. The description of the photo → Korolyov, Moscow Oblast. The full-scale model of the Vostok-2M (8A292M)1 carrier rocket installed as a monument in 1995 on the territory of the RSC Energia. A view from the square before the main entrance check-point of the RSC Energia.

References:
1. The versions are given according the report of Aleksey Kalinovsky on the forum of the journal News of Cosmonautics («Новости космонавтики», in Russian).

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VDNKh. Pavilion No. 36 Produce Processing Industry

This post is the first of a prospected series of reports devoted to the VDNKh — the Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy in Moscow, Russia.


Dmitry Ivanov. 2015. CC-BY-SA 4.0. The description of the photo →
Moscow. VDNKh (the Exhibition of Achievements of the People's Economy). Pavilion No. 36 Produce Processing Industry.
Architects Piotr Revyakin and Yuri Sheverdyaev. 1954, reconstructed in 1974—1975 by Yu. Sheverdyaev.
Address: Russia, Москва, Проспект Мира, д. 119, д. 36.