• Poet V.V. Mayakovsky lived and worked in this house in 1913-1915

    Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky was an outstanding Soviet poet, publicist, playwright and artist of the 20th century, a talented actor, director and screenwriter.

  • Monument to Rabindranath Tagore

    Rabindranath Tagore was a prominent Indian poet and writer, and the first non-European to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born on May 6, 1861, in Calcutta

  • Monument to Jawaharlal Nehru

    Jawaharlal Nehru was an eminent Indian politician and statesman, one of the most prominent global leaders of his time. Leading the left wing of India’s independence movement under Mahatma Gandhi’s guidance, he became the president of the Indian National Congress (INC) and, after India gained independence in 1947, its first Prime Minister.

  • Jawaharlal Nehru Square

    Jawaharlal Nehru was an Indian statesman, politician, and public figure—one of the most prominent political leaders of the 20th century.

  • Writer M.A. Sholokhov lived and worked for many years in this house

    Mikhail Alexandrovich Sholokhov was an outstanding Soviet writer and a classic of 20th-century Russian literature. He was born on May 24, 1905, in the hamlet of Kruzhilin, part of the Veshenskaya stanitsa (Cossack village), into the family of a Don Cossack.

  • Monument to Musa Jalil

    Musa Jalil (real name — Zalilov Musa Mustafovich) was an outstanding Tatar poet and a hero of the Great Patriotic War. He was born on February 15, 1906, in the village of Mustafino in the Orenburg region to a peasant family.

  • Monument to Walt Whitman

    Walt Whitman was a prominent American poet, a reformer of verse, publicist, and humanist whose work marked a new stage in the development not only of American but also of world literature.

  • Monument to Student Chekhov

    The Monument to Student Chekhov on the campus of Moscow State University is dedicated to the Russian literary classic Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. Created by sculptor A.I. Rukavishnikov, the bronze statue depicts Chekhov in his youth, wearing a greatcoat and embracing a dog with his left arm.

  • Nikolay Sirotkin Street

    Nikolai Evgrafovich Sirotkin was a Russian church figure and educator, the rector of the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God “The Sign” in Zakharyino.

  • Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Tushino, Patriarchal Compound

    Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker, also known as Nicholas of Myra or Nicholas the Wonderworker, is one of the most revered saints in the Orthodox tradition.