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A vast Soviet exhibition park of grand pavilions, gilded fountains and a soaring monument to space flight.
US travel advisory: Level 4, Do Not Travel · checked 2026-11-03- Open
- Always
- Price
- Free; paid for the pavilions and museum
- Time Needed
- 2 hours
- Address
- Prospekt Mira 119, MoscowDirections
- Getting There
- VDNKh metro station.
Why Go
Built from 1939 to show off the farms and industries of the Soviet republics, the park is lined with pavilions and centered on the golden Friendship of Nations fountain. By the entrance, the 107-meter Monument to the Conquerors of Space rises over the Museum of Cosmonautics, and Vera Mukhina's steel Worker and Kolkhoz Woman stands nearby.
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