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      Space: the Cosmonautics Museum and the Alley of Heroes

      ⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 1.5 km🍽 2📍 5 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      Real capsules, spacesuits, and Belka and Strelka — under a rocket monument.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture☔️ If it rains
      👶 3–6, 7–12, 13+ years · ✓ stroller-friendly

      The alley and the square by the monument are level. At the museum under the monument you can check your stroller in the cloakroom. VDNKh metro has no lift — better to take surface transport.

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        🏛 Monument to the Conquerors of Space
        A titanium rocket-shaped stele at VDNKh, a 1964 monument to space exploration.
        The rocket's 107-metre titanium plume
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        Monument to the Conquerors of Space
        © Vasilii Martynov · CC0
        Monument to the Conquerors of Space
        © Александровы АГ · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • At first the obelisk honoring the satellite was to be placed near Moscow State University; the 1958 competition drew over a thousand designs.
        • It was Sergei Korolev who suggested cladding the monument in polished titanium, and he also secured supplies of the scarce metal.
        • During design the height grew from 50 to 107 m.
        • The frame is a steel lattice weighing 250 tonnes, assembled by hand on the ground and raised with cranes.
        • Korolev, seeing himself in the bas-relief at the base, was angry: he thought there were worthier heroes.
        • The monument is stamped on the 10-kopeck coin of 1967.
        • It is the second-tallest monument in Russia after the Victory monument on Poklonnaya Hill.
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        🖼 Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics
        пр-т Мира, 111
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        A museum in the base of the monument with real rockets, satellites and capsules.
        The museum is right under the monument, 1.5-2 hours
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        Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics
        © Clockedok · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics
        © Clockedok · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The museum was Sergei Korolev's idea; it opened on 10 April 1981, for the 20th anniversary of Gagarin's flight.
        • The halls were originally underground, five meters deep, in the base of the monument.
        • After renovation the museum reopened on 12 April 2009, with Valentina Tereshkova and Pavel Popovich at the ceremony.
        • The museum has a branch of Mission Control showing the ISS's movement live.
        • Inside you can walk into a mock-up of the base block of the Mir station.
        • The museum's collection holds more than 100,000 items.
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        🚶 Cosmonauts Alley
        A wide alley from the monument to VDNKh with monuments to Korolev and the first cosmonauts.
        Busts of cosmonauts and a model of the Solar System
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        Cosmonauts Alley
        © Александр Сигачёв · CC0
        • The alley opened on 4 October 1967, for the 10th anniversary of the first satellite launch.
        • It was laid out to continue Prospekt Mira and to open up a view of the Monument to the Conquerors of Space.
        • At the end of the alley stands a monument to Tsiolkovsky by Andrei Faydysh-Krandievsky.
        • At the center of the Solar System model is a sundial; among the planets is Pluto, which by then had already lost its planet status.
        • In 2017 busts of Alexandrov, Lebedev, Savitskaya and Solovyov appeared, and all four came to the unveiling.
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        🍽 Syrovarnya at Sun of Moscow (The Cheese Dairy) · 🧸 play area
        2-я Останкинская ул., 3 (МФК «Солнце Москвы»)
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        From the end of the Alley of Cosmonauts through the main entrance of VDNKh to the "Sun of Moscow" wheel is about 700 m, 10 minutes. The children's room is free, the paths are level and easy with a stroller; on weekend afternoons, book a table.
        🍴 Arkady Novikov's restaurant at the foot of the Ferris wheel: the cheeses are made right here, and there is a kids' room. What to order: wood-fired pizza, crispy focaccia, syrniki (fried curd pancakes), and cake for dessert.
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        ☕️ Vzlyot Space Café at the Museum of Cosmonautics
        проспект Мира, 111 (цокольный этаж музея)
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        Lunch
        🍴 A space-themed café on the lower level of the Museum of Cosmonautics, open daily from 10:00, with a kids' menu. What to order: "Space borscht", a cutlet or sausages with potato wedges, pizza for kids, and space food in tubes as a souvenir.

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