I ventured to the north of Moscow today, near the VDNKh – the famous All-Union Exhibition Centre. By the time I was going back home via the same metro station it was snowing heavily, and I couldn’t really take many decent photos. I resorted to videofootage, to somehow compensate for the change in weather that could stop me from letting you see my native city in this majestic snowfall. You can gather the impression of how heavy the snowfall was on the video above.
In the video beneath this paragraph you will see the monument to the Conquerors of Space with the Memorial Museum of Astronautics located in its basement; the Ostankino TV Tower (it is barely noticeable but you can see the silhouette right next to the Monument); the entrance to the VDNKh; and the Cosmos Hotel.
This is how the entrance to the All-Russia Exhibition Centre looked like when I somehow managed to capture it in more or less ‘stable’ form. This impressive combination of a colonnade and a triumphant arch is lavishly decorated with rye ears and statues symbolising Soviet people at work, and the top is adorned with the Soviet man and woman with the sheaf of corn, in a pose not unlike the famous The Worker and the Peasant Woman that stands a stone-throw away.
Towards the end of my photo ordeal I was blessed with a great shot. I am amazed myself when I look at it, all the more so as I have no idea how what I saw with my eyes was also captured by the camera. Either way, here is an Ostankino streetlight.
