Monuments & statues in Russia
Detourmap maps 183 monuments & statues worth the detour in Russia — memorials, colossal statues, triumphal arches. The best known is Lenin's Mausoleum. The 150 most notable are listed here; the rest are on the map. Each has a photo and a Wikipedia article.
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Lenin's Mausoleum
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Renowned
Architectural structure in Red Square, Moscow, Russia
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The Motherland Calls
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Renowned
Volgograd monumental sculpture for heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad
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Nevsky Prospect
Monuments & statues · 18th century · Renowned
Thoroughfare in Saint Petersburg, Russia
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Mannerheim Line
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Renowned
Defensive fortification line built by Finland against the Soviet Union
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Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Notable
Medical research institute in Moscow, Russia
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Millennium of Russia
Monuments & statues · 19th century · Notable
Building of Veliky Novgorod, Russia
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Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Notable
War memorial in Moscow, Russia
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Alexander Column
Monuments & statues · 19th century · Notable
Victory column in Saint Petersburg, Russia
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Pavlov's House
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Notable
Strategic location in the Battle of Stalingrad
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Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Notable
First in the world reactor electricity
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Solovetsky Stone
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Notable
Monument on Lubyanka Square in Moscow, Russia
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Monument to the laboratory mouse
Monuments & statues · 21st century · Notable
Sculpture in Novosibirsk, Siberia, Russia
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Monument to the Conquerors of Space
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Notable
Monument in Moscow, Russia
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Moscow Triumphal Gate
Monuments & statues · 19th century · Notable
Triumphal arch in Saint Petersburg, Russia
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Memorial to Defenders of the Soviet Arctic during the Great Patriotic War
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Notable
World War II memorial in Russia
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Peter the Great Statue
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Notable
Monument in Moscow sculpted by Russian architect Zurab Tsereteli
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Polytechnical Museum
Monuments & statues · 19th century · Notable
Science museum in Moscow, Russia,one of the oldest science museums in the world
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Memorial to the Victims of the Deportation of 1944
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Hidden gem
Monument in Grozny, Russia
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Russian University of Transport
Monuments & statues · 19th century · Hidden gem
Higher education institution in the field of railway transport in Moscow, Russia
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To Leningrad the Hero City Obelisk
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Hidden gem
Monument in Vosstaniya Square in Saint Petersburg, Russia
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Triumphal Arch of Moscow
Monuments & statues · 19th century · Hidden gem
Monument commemorating Russia's victory over Napoleon
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Monument to Dimitry of Rostov
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Hidden gem
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Monument to Nicholas I
Monuments & statues · 19th century · Hidden gem
Monument in Saint Petersburg (1859)
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Museum of S. V. Rachmaninov in Ivanovka estate
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Hidden gem
Museum and cultural centre in Tambov Region, Russia
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Monument to Alexander Pushkin
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Hidden gem
Monument in Rostov-on-Don, Russia
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Petrozavodsk State University
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Hidden gem
University in Petrozavodsk, Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, founded in 1940
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National Theatre of Karelia
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Hidden gem
Theatre in Petrozavdosk, Russia
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Monument to heroes of World War I
Monuments & statues · 21st century · Hidden gem
Monument in Azov, Russia
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Yermolova Theatre
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Hidden gem
Theatre building, historic site, theatre company in Tverskoy District, Russia
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Möxämmädiä
Monuments & statues · 19th century · Hidden gem
Madrasa, muslim religious education school in Kazan
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Monument to Nizami Ganjavi in Saint Petersburg
Monuments & statues · 21st century · Hidden gem
Monument in Saint Petersburg, Russia
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Rear-front Memorial
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Hidden gem
Monument in Magnitogorsk, Russia
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Chkalov Stairs
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Hidden gem
Staircase, a landmark of Nizhny Novgorod
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Artyomka monument
Monuments & statues · 21st century · Hidden gem
A statue near house-museum of I. D. Vasilenko in Taganrog
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Monument to Yakov Baklanov
Monuments & statues · 19th century · Hidden gem
Monument in Novocherkassk, Russia
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Monument to the founders of Rostov-on-Don
Monuments & statues · 21st century · Hidden gem
Monument in Rostov-on-Don, Russia
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Monument to heroes of World War I
Monuments & statues · 21st century · Hidden gem
Monument in Rostov-on-Don, Russia
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Monument to the Don Cossacks
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Hidden gem
Monument in Kruzhilin, Russia
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Museum of the Moscow Railway
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Hidden gem
Museum next to Paveletsky Rail Terminal in Moscow
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Tchaikovsky State House-Museum
Monuments & statues · 19th century · Hidden gem
Former house of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, now a museum
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Citizens! During shelling this side of the street is the most dangerous
Monuments & statues · Hidden gem
Public warning message displayed in the USSR during World War II
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Bulgarian epigraphic monuments
Monuments & statues · 12th century · Hidden gem
Tombstones of the Golden Horde
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Sculptural Composition "The Man in a Case"
Monuments & statues · 21st century · Hidden gem
Sculpture in Taganrog, Russia
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Monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky, Moscow
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Hidden gem
Former monument stood in KGB Headquarters later relocated at the Muzeon Art Museum in Moscow
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Peter I Monument in Taganrog
Monuments & statues · 19th century · Hidden gem
Monument in Taganrog sculpted by Mark Antokolski
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Statue of Yuriy Dolgorukiy, Moscow
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Hidden gem
Equestrian statue in Moscow, Russia
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Statue of Lenin at Finland Station
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Hidden gem
Statue in Saint Petersburg, Russia
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Liberators of Rostov-on-Don
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Hidden gem
Monument in Rostov-on-Don, Russia
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Arches of Triumph
Monuments & statues · 19th century · Hidden gem
Monuments of Russian Classicist architecture
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Monument to Matvei Platov
Monuments & statues · 19th century · Hidden gem
Replica of a 19th-century monument in Novocherkassk, Russia
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Monument of the Great October Revolution
Monuments & statues · Hidden gem
Monument in Rostov-on-Don, Russia
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Monument to innocent murdered
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Hidden gem
Russian memorial in Rostov Oblast
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Monument to the Communications Workers of Don
Monuments & statues · Hidden gem
Monument in Rostov-on-Don, Russia
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Monument to Aleksandr Khanzhonkov
Monuments & statues · Hidden gem
Monument in Rostov-on-Don, Russia
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Monument to Peter and Fevronia
Monuments & statues · 21st century · Hidden gem
Monument in Bataysk, Russia
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Grand Ducal Burial Vault
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Hidden gem
Mausoleum in the Peter and Paul Fortress, Russia
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Chuvash State Academic Drama Theatre
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Hidden gem
Ancient theatre
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Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin) LETI Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University
Monuments & statues · 19th century · Hidden gem
Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University is one of the oldest Russian higher education institutions.
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Fountan at Theater Square
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Hidden gem
Fountain in Rostov-on-Don, Rostov Oblast, Russia
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Chapayev monument (Samara)
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Hidden gem
Monument in Samara, Russia
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Monument to Victims of Political Repressions
Monuments & statues · Hidden gem
Monument in Saint Petersburg, Russia
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Solovetsky Stone in Saint Petersburg
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Hidden gem
Monument to victims of political repressionin Petrograd-Leningrad (Saint Petersburg)
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Alexander Garden Obelisk
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Hidden gem
Monument in Alexander Garden, Moscow, Russia
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Monument to the first-grader (Rostov-on-Don)
Monuments & statues · Hidden gem
Monument in Rostov-on-Don, Russia
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Rozhdestveno Memorial Estate
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Hidden gem
Estate and museum in Russia
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Baksan hydroelectric power station
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Hidden gem
Dam in Atazhukino, Baksansky District
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Nevsky Pyatachok & Nevskaya Dubrovka
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Hidden gem
Bridgehead for Soviet troops in the battle to lift the blockade of Leningrad
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Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Hidden gem
Art museum in Yekaterinburg, Russia
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Sverdlovsk Regional Natural History Museum
Monuments & statues · 19th century · Hidden gem
Museum in Yekaterinburg, Russia
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Gully of Petrushino
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Hidden gem
Place on the outskirts of Taganrog, where about 7,000 Soviet citizens, mostly Jews, were killed during the Nazi occupation of the city in 1941-1943
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Cossacks
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Hidden gem
Sculpture composition at the Volga-Don Canal in Volgodonsk, Russia
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Monument to Boris Yeltsin in Yekaterinburg
Monuments & statues · 21st century · Hidden gem
Monument in Yekaterinburg, Russia
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Stele “City of Military Glory”
Monuments & statues · 21st century · Hidden gem
Historic site in Rostov Oblast, Russia
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Monument to Sergei Yesenin in St. Petersburg
Monuments & statues · Hidden gem
Monument in Saint Petersburg, Russia
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Monument to the sailors of the Azov Flotilla
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Hidden gem
World War II monument in Azov, Russia
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Formula of Sorrow
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Hidden gem
Monument to Jewish victims of Nazism, killed in 1941 in the city of Puschkin during the World War II
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Monument to Ivan Dokunin
Monuments & statues · 21st century · Hidden gem
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Monument "The Third Bastion of the Trinity Fortress"
Monuments & statues · 21st century · Hidden gem
Monument in Taganrog, Russia
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Monument to Leo Tolstoy on Prechistenka
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Hidden gem
Sculpture in Moscow
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Monument to Alexander Fadeev
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Hidden gem
Monument in Moscow, Miusskaya square
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House-Museum of Mitrofan Grekov
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Hidden gem
Museum, historic site in Novocherkassk, Russia
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9 towers
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Hidden gem
Memorial complex and museum, originally dedicated to the victims of Stalinism, located in Nazran
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Rimsky-Korsakov Monument
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Hidden gem
Monument in Saint Petersburg, Russia
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Monument to the heroes of the October Revolution and the Civil War
Monuments & statues · Hidden gem
Monument in Ufa, Russia
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Monument to Alexander Matrosov
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Hidden gem
Monument in city of Ufa
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Monument to Feodor Chaliapin
Monuments & statues · 21st century · Hidden gem
Statue in Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia
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Monument to Minin and Pozharsky
Monuments & statues · 21st century · Hidden gem
The small copy of the Moscow monument in Nizhny Novgorod
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Monument to Chocolate
Monuments & statues · 21st century · Hidden gem
Sculpture in Pokrov, Vladimir Oblast, Russia
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Monument to the 1st Cavalry Army
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Hidden gem
Monument in Rostov-on-Don, Russia
