Location: Lefortovo
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Top 10 Sights & Landmarks in Lefortovo, Central Russia
The political, scientific, historical, architectural and business center of Russia, Moscow displays the country's contrasts at their most extreme. The ancient and modern are juxtaposed side by side in this city of 10 million. Catch a metro from one of the ornate stations to see Red Square, the Kremlin, the nine domes of St. Basil's Cathedral, Lenin's Mausoleum, the KGB Museum and other symbols of Moscow's great and terrible past, then lighten up and shop Boulevard Ring or people watch in Pushkin Square.
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1. Church of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin by the Saltykov Bridge
2. The Eiffel Tower
3. Main House of the A.L. Knopa's Manor
4. Monument to the Heroes of the Patriotic War of 1812
5. Stroganov Estate on the Yauza
6. Catherine's Palace
7. Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul
8. Trinity Temple by the Saltykov Bridge
9. Monument to Aviators of Regiment Normandy-Nieman
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Reviewed By AlexeevIgor - Moscow, Russia
A monument to the pilots of the French Normandy-Neman Fighter Aviation Regiment was opened in Moscow, in Krasnokursantsky Square, on October 10, 2007. The composition of the monument: French and Russian pilots after a combat flight... The place for the monument was not chosen by chance - the Vvedenskoye Cemetery is not far, there the pilots of the Normandie-Niemen regiment who died in battle are buried. In 1943-1945, when the French pilots of the Normandie-Niemen air regiment together with Russian pilots in the 303rd fighter Air Division of the Red Army fought with the Nazis, 42 French pilots were killed. We remember...
