The monument to Vladimir the Great, who brought Christianity to pagan Kievan Rus in the 10th century was opened in downtown Moscow on November 4. The official opening ceremony was held on Russia's National Unity Day. Russia's most remarkable monuments - in this gallery by TASS.
Russia's most remarkable monuments
The monument to Vladimir the Great unveiled near the Moscow's Kremlin
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A monument to Vladimir the Great outside the Kremlin in Moscow
© AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko A monument to Tsar Ivan the Terrible in the city of Orel, 350 kilometers south of Moscow. The installation of this statue caused local protests and court battles, as Tsar Ivan IV Vasilyevich known as Ivan the Terrible is one of the most controversial figures in Russia's history
© AP Photo/Howard Amos The Motherland Calls statue in Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd, commemorating the Battle of Stalingrad. It is the tallest statue in Russia, measuring 85 metres from the tip of its sword to the top of the plinth
© Nikolai Galkin/TASS Monument to the first Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in Moscow
© Sergei Bobylev/TASS A view of Moscow's Krymskaya Embankment and the Peter the Great statue designed by sculptor Zurab Tsereteli
© Sergei Bobylev/TASS Vera Mukhina's 24-meter-tall Worker and Kolkhoz Woman monument in Moscow
© Yuri Mashkov/ITAR-TASS Yuri Dolgoruky monument in Moscow's Tverskaya Square
© Anton Novoderezhkin/TASS Bronze Horseman statue of Peter the Great in Saint Petersburg
© Sergei Petrov/TASS The monument to the Defenders of the Soviet Arctic during the Great Patriotic War, commonly called Alyosha, is 35.5 metres high statue in Murmansk
© wikipedia.org/Dmitriy Shipulya Millennium of Russia monument in Veliky Novgorod. It was erected in 1862 to celebrate the millennium of Rurik's arrival to Novgorod, an event traditionally taken as a starting point of the history of Russian statehood
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