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      MSU's new campus: Gandhi, Chekhov and Lomonosov

      ⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 3 km🍽 0📍 5 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      Five monuments along Lomonosovsky Prospekt — from two Gandhis to a young Lomonosov; you can sit beside the student Chekhov and his dog.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
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        🏛 Mahatma Gandhi Monument
        Ломоносовский пр-т, у пл. Индиры Ганди
        A bust of Mahatma Gandhi on a high pedestal in a square by Lomonosovsky Prospekt — India's gift to Moscow.
        At the exit of Lomonosovsky Prospekt metro. Gandhi stands in a little park by the avenue.
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        • Unveiled on 8 July 1988, a gift from the government and people of India.
        • The sculptor is the Indian Gautam Pal.
        • At first Gandhi had glasses, but they were broken off and never replaced.
        • The pedestal simply says: "MAHATMA GANDHI".
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        🏛 Indira Gandhi Monument
        пл. Индиры Ганди
        A bronze Indira Gandhi on the square named after her by Lomonosovsky Prospekt.
        A hundred metres further, on the square named after her.
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        • Unveiled on 3 July 1987; the ribbon was cut by Mikhail Gorbachev and Rajiv Gandhi.
        • The sculptor is Oleg Komov.
        • Indira Gandhi was an honorary professor of Moscow State University.
        • The square at the crossing of Lomonosovsky and Michurinsky prospekts also bears her name.
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        🏛 Monument to Chekhov the Student
        Ломоносовский пр-т, 27 (новая территория МГУ)
        The young Chekhov in a greatcoat hugging a dog on a granite bench — you can sit next to him.
        10 minutes along Lomonosovsky Prospekt to the new MSU buildings. Walk round the bench: on the back are carved Chekhov's funny pen names.
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        • The sculptor is Alexander Rukavishnikov.
        • On the side is a facsimile of Chekhov's petition to the rector asking for his diploma.
        • On the back are carved his pen names: "Antosha Chekhonte", "Doctor Without Patients", "Nut No. 6" and others.
        • Chekhov studied at the Faculty of Medicine of Moscow University from 1879 to 1884.
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        🏛 Monument to Ivan Shuvalov at the MSU Library
        Ломоносовский пр-т, 27, корп. 1
        Count Shuvalov, the university's first curator, sits and looks across the avenue straight at Lomonosov.
        Further along the buildings to the Fundamental Library, 8 minutes.
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        Monument to Ivan Shuvalov at the MSU Library
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        • The monument was unveiled in 2005 for MSU's 250th anniversary; the author is Zurab Tsereteli.
        • It stands in front of the Fundamental Library, opposite the Lomonosov monument.
        • With its pedestal it is 4 metres tall and weighs 20 tonnes.
        • An identical Shuvalov has stood since 2003 in the courtyard of the Academy of Arts in St Petersburg.
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        🏛 Lomonosov Monument at the MSU Main Building
        Ленинские горы, 1, у Главного здания МГУ
        A young Lomonosov with a pen and paper on the central axis of the whole university ensemble.
        Cross Lomonosovsky Prospekt at the crossing: Lomonosov stands right opposite Shuvalov, in front of the Main Building.
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        Lomonosov Monument at the MSU Main Building
        © Дмитрий Мозжухин · CC BY 3.0
        • Erected in 1953, when the Main Building on Lenin Hills opened.
        • It stands between the buildings of the chemistry and physics faculties.
        • The figure is bronze, the pedestal light-grey granite.
        • The monument lies on the same axis as the Main Building and the Fundamental Library.

      ↩️ Getting back: from the Lomonosov monument, 15 minutes to Universitet metro

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