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The Cosmos hotel complex was built to serve the XXII Summer Olympic Games, held in Moscow in 1980.The architecture and design of the building, overlooking VDNH (now VVC) and the monument "To the Conquerors of Space," were developed jointly by a team of Soviet and French architects (V. Andreev, T. Zaikin, V. Steiskal — Mosproekt-1; O. Kakub, P. Zhuglyo, S. Epstein — France)[2].The hotel program included:The official opening of the hotel took place on July 18, 1979. It was a grand celebration attended by many prominent politicians, businessmen, and pop stars. Special guest singer Joe Dassin performed.In 1990, the square in front of the hotel was named after General Charles de Gaulle, and on May 9, 2005, on the day marking the 60th anniversary of Victory Day, a monument was unveiled there in the presence of Jacques Chirac. The eight-meter sculpture of Charles de Gaulle rises on a classic ten-meter pedestal made of polished granite.

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The monument "To the Conquerors of Space" was erected in Moscow in 1964 to commemorate the achievements of the Soviet people in space exploration.The monument is located in the North-Eastern Administrative District of Moscow, near the main entrance to VDNH (now the All-Russia Exhibition Center), at the end of Cosmonauts Alley.

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The Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics in Moscow is a space-themed museum located in the basement part of the monument "To the Conquerors of Space" on Cosmonauts Alley.The museum opened on April 10, 1981, for the 20th anniversary of Y. A. Gagarin's flight into space. The museum's exhibits include examples of rocket and space technology, personal belongings of cosmonauts and designers, archival documents, and items of numismatics and philately.In 2006, a large-scale reconstruction of the Museum of Cosmonautics, the monument "To the Conquerors of Space," and Cosmonauts Alley began.In 2006, Moscow's chief architect Aleksandr Kuzmin announced that a circular square with an architectural representation of the planets of the Solar System and a monument to designer Sergey Korolyov would be built near the monument "To the Conquerors of Space." By the end of 2008, the square and the monument to S. P. Korolyov (arch. A. V. Kuzmin, I. N. Voskresensky, sculptors S. A. Shcherbakov, S. S. Shcherbakov) already existed and became part of the renovated Cosmonauts Alley.

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"Worker and Kolkhoz Woman" is an outstanding monument of monumental art, the "ideal and symbol of the Soviet era"[1], representing a dynamic sculptural group of two figures holding aloft a sickle and hammer above their heads. The author is Vera Mukhina; the concept and compositional design are by architect Boris Iofan. The monument is made of stainless chromium-nickel steel. Height is about 25 m (the height of the pavilion-pedestal is 33 m). Total weight is 185 tons.[2]It was created for the Soviet pavilion at the World's Fair in Paris in 1937. The ideological concept of the sculpture and the first model belonged to architect B. M. Iofan[3][4], who won the competition to build the pavilion. Even while working on the competition design, the architect "very soon conceived the image... of the sculpture, a young man and woman personifying the masters of Soviet land — the working class and the collective-farm peasantry. They raise high the emblem of the Land of Soviets — the sickle and hammer"[4].

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The All-Russia Exhibition Center (VVC) is an exhibition complex in the North-Eastern District of Moscow, the second-largest exhibition complex in Moscow. It is among the 50 largest exhibition centers in the world[1].The total area of the VVC grounds is 237.5 ha[2], and the pavilion area is 134 000 m².The exhibition complex was officially opened in 1939 as the "All-Union Agricultural Exhibition" (VSKhV) and operated until 1941. Its predecessor was the "All-Russian Agricultural and Handicraft-Industrial Exhibition," organized in 1923 in Moscow on Sparrow Hills[3]. In 1941, the exhibition operated for only 1 month and five days. During the Great Patriotic War, the exposition and library of VSKhV were evacuated to Chelyabinsk. The exhibition reopened only in 1954 after reconstruction, which had begun in 1950. In 1959, the complex was repurposed and received a new name — the "Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy of the USSR" (VDNKh USSR).

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The N. V. Tsitsin Main Botanical Garden of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow) is the largest botanical garden in Europe[2], with exceptionally rich plant collections representing the diverse flora of almost all continents and climate zones of the globe. It was founded on April 14, 1945, and Nikolai Vasilyevich Tsitsin became its first director. The living collections number 8220 species and 8110 forms and varieties of plants — a total of 16 330 taxa. Based on these collections and using modern landscape architecture techniques, botanical exhibitions have been created of plants from Russia's native flora, the former USSR, an arboretum, an exhibition of tropical and subtropical plants, and ornamental flowering and cultivated plants.On January 21, 1945, Resolution No. 128 of the Council of People's Commissars, "On Commemorating the 220th Anniversary of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR," was adopted in Moscow, and among other measures it was decided to establish a new botanical garden in the capital.

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The Ostankino TV Tower is a television and radio broadcasting tower located in Moscow. Height — 540 m[1], the 8th tallest free-standing structure in the world after the Burj Khalifa skyscraper (Dubai), Tokyo Skytree (Tokyo), Shanghai Tower (Shanghai), Abraj Al-Bait (Mecca), Guangzhou TV Tower (Guangzhou), CN Tower (Toronto), and One World Trade Center (New York). Its first name was the "All-Union Radio and Television Transmitting Station named for the 50th Anniversary of October."The Ostankino TV Tower is a full member of the "World Federation of Great Towers"[2].Chief designer — N. V. Nikitin. Engineers — M. A. Shkud and B. A. Zlobin[3]. Chief architect — L. I. Batalov. Architects — D. I. Burdin, M. A. Shkud, and L. I. Shchipakin. The decision to build the tower was made in 1957, and construction took place from 1963 to 1967. At that time it was the tallest structure in the world[1].