Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Dmitry Ivanov. 2015. CC-BY-SA 4.0. The description of the photo →
Korolyov, Moscow Oblast. The interior of the illuminated New Year tree installed on Prospekt Korolyova.

Buildings of the Eastern Water Supply Canal

The Eastern Water Supply Canal (also known as the Akulovo Water Supply Canal) was built in 1933—1937. It connects the Ucha Reservoir (a reservoir in the system of the Moscow Canal located in northern central part of Moscow Oblast) and the Eastern Water Station in the Eastern Administrative District of Moscow. A section of the canal goes across the city of Korolyov where following photographs were taken.

Dmitry Ivanov. 2015. CC-BY-SA 4.0. The description of the photo →
Korolyov, Moscow Oblast. Valve houses of the Eastern Water Supply Canal (Akulovo Water Supply Canal) located at the crossing of the canal and the railway line between the stations Podlipki-Dachnye and Bolshevo.

VDNKh. Pavilion No. 38 Fishing

This faced with aluminum and glass piece of the Soviet Brutalism was built in 1985.

Dmitry Ivanov. 2015. CC-BY-SA 4.0. The description of the photo →
Moscow. VDNKh. Pavilion No. 38 Fishing. A view from the Fourth Kamensky Pond.
The location of the pavilion:

Boats of Saint Petersburg

Dmitry Ivanov. 2014. CC-BY-SA 3.0. The description of the photo →
A Rinker sport boat of the Captiva series (the Rinker Boat Company, the USA) on the Moyka River in Saint Petrsburg.

Towers of the Moscow Kremlin. A view from the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge.

Let’s ascend the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge and have a look on the Kremlin.

Dmitry Ivanov. 2016. CC-BY-SA 4.0. The description of the photo →
On the left we see three towers of the south wall (from left to right):

• the Taynitskaya Tower (the Secret Tower) – it was built in 1485 and became the first tower of the current Kremlin; in 1770–1771 the tower was dismantled but in 1783 it was built again;
• the First Unnamed Tower, it was built in 1480s, dismantled in 1770s and built again in 1780s; in 1812 the tower was blown up by the French, in 1835 it was restored;
• the Second Unnamed Tower, it was built in 1480s, dismantled in 1770s and built again in 1780s.

The building of the Grand Kremlin Palace is seen behind the towers.

Portriat of Nikolay Gnedich by Anton Ivanov

Dmitry Ivanov. 2015. CC-BY-SA 4.0. The description of the photo →
Portrait of Nikolay Gnedich by Anton Ivanov. 1835. Marble.
The medaillon on the tombstone of Nikolay Gnedich in the Tikhvin Cenetry, Saint Petersburg: the marble replica created in 1961. The marble original of the medaillon (1835) is kept in the Annunciation Church of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra.
Primarily the sculptural portrait of N. Gnedich was attributed to the Samuil Ivanovich Galberg (1787—1839). Later Elena Karpova, the curator of the sculpture collection of the State Russian Museum, advanced another version: the bas-relief was created by Anton Andreevich Ivanov (?—1852), a pupil of Samuil Galber. This version is based on a report in Khudozhestvennaya Gazeta (Artistic Newspaper, 1841), where the portrait of N. Gnedich is mentioned among works by A. A. Ivanov and on the list of works by A. A. Ivanov in The Lexicon of Russian Artist by Nikolay Sobko.

The Church of Saint Basil the Great in the VDNKh

Dmitry Ivanov. 2015. CC-BY-SA 4.0. The description of the photo →
Moscow. VDNKh. The Church of Saint Basil the Great (Russian: храм Святителя Василия Великого). Architect: Andrey Obolensky.
The building was was under consuction in 2000—2001; in 2001 it was consecrated as a chapel by Patriarch Alexy II.
In 2011 the sanctuary was attached to the chapel and Bishop Tikhon (Shevkunov) consecrated it as a church.

The location of the Saint Basil the Great Church:

VDNKh. Pavilion No. 8 Young Naturalists

Dmitry Ivanov. 2015. CC-BY-SA 3.0. The description of the photo →
Moscow. VDNKh. Pavilion No. 8 Young Naturalists. Built in 1954.
Currently (2016) the pavilion is used by the museum theater The House of Fairy Tales Once Upon a Times.

The Bell Tower of St. John's Church at the Pine Forest in Moscow

Dmitry Ivanov. 2015. CC-BY-SA 4.0. The description of the photo →
Moscow. The bell tower of the Church of the Beheading of John the Baptist at the Pine Forest (Russian: Храм Усекновения Главы Иоанна Предтечи под Бором). The end of the 18th century.
A view from Pyatnitskaya Street.
A notable feature of this bell tower, built in traditions of the early Classicism with some elements of the Baroque, is different stylistics of its levels. Columns of the lover level (they are not seen on this photograph) are in the Doric style, the medium level is built according to the Ionic order, the columns of the upper level are the most spectacular, they have Corinthian capitals.

The location of the bell tower of the Church of the Beheading of John the Baptist:

Ventilation

Dmitry Ivanov. 2016. CC-BY-SA 4.0. The description of the photo →
Moscow. Ventilation shafts of the Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics.