Friday, 9 December 2011

The worker


The worker bas relief at Petrovsky Passazh.
By Matvei Manizer  1921

Thursday, 8 December 2011

Red Telephone Box


Looks familiar.....
BTW no telephone in it

Moscow Zoo


Moscow Planetarium


The Moscow Planetarium designed by architects Mikhail Barshch and Mikhail Sinyavsky was opened on November 5, 1929.  In the 1960s was used an educational centre for the first Russian cosmonauts.  The building was abandoned for 17 years and then reopened on June 12, 2011