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5 unusual facts about Red Square


2A3 Kondensator 2P

Western observers got their first look at the new weapon during a 1957 parade on Red Square.

Harry Phibbs

As an activist in the Federation of Conservative Students, he was arrested for distributing dissident literature in Red Square, Moscow.

Kingston near Lewes

The radical reputation of the university influx earned this new green the nickname "Red Square" from some of the more traditional locals.

Mosinee, Wisconsin

Mayor Kronenwetter surrendered at 10:15 AM in the town's new "Red Square" with a pistol to his back.

Paul McCartney in Red Square

It is composed of footage taken during his concerts in Moscow's Red Square and St Petersburg's Palace Square.


Arkady Renko

The action in Gorky Park takes place in the Soviet Union and in the US, Polar Star on board a Soviet fishing vessel in the Bering Sea, and Red Square in West Germany and the Glasnost-era Soviet Russia.

Coffin

Sometimes coffins are constructed to permanently display the corpse, as in the case of the glass-covered coffin of the Haraldskær Woman on display in the Church of Saint Nicolai in Vejle, Denmark or the glass-coffin of Vladimir Lenin which is in the Red Square in Moscow.

Dobryninskaya

The side ones feature images of two Parades on the Red Square, the left one of Soviet athletes and the right of the Soviet Military, which featured a portrait of Stalin being carried, and like the bas-relief in the Central Hall, this was removed in 1961 and then carefully replaced with an image of Yuri Gagarin.

Larisa Bogoraz

Bogoraz became well known when, on August 25, 1968, she organized seven people to protest in Red Square against the Soviet Union's invasion of Czechoslovakia at the 1968 Red Square demonstration, together with Pavel Litvinov, Natalya Gorbanevskaya, Vadim Delaunay and other protesters.

Narkomtiazhprom

The Narkomtiazhprom (NKTP, Russian: Наркомтяжпром) is a portmanteau for the People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry that was conducting a 1934 architectural design contest for the building of People's Commissariat of Construction of Heavy Industry, constructed in Red Square, Moscow.

Naryshkin Baroque

Civic architecture also sought to conform to the baroque aesthetics, e.g., the Sukharev Tower in Moscow and there is also a neo-form of this style like the Principal Medicine Store on Red Square.

Sergey Kalugin

In 1999 in an interview to a social-patriotic weekly Zavtra edited by Alexander Prokhanov Sergey Kalugin confessed to supporting the GKChP during the conservative 1991 August Putsch, claiming that he was the only one not afraid of coming out and walking around the Red Square (while hundreds of thousands of people were protesting against the GKChP).

Tsar Cannon

It is known to have been mounted on a special frame with a fixed inclination angle in Red Square near the Place of Skulls in order to protect the eastern approaches to the Kremlin, indicating that it originally did have a practical application.

Vadim Delaunay

On August 25, 1968, he and seven other dissidents organized the now-famous demonstration in support of the Prague Spring in Red Square near the Moscow Kremlin.

Vertical wind tunnel

A vertical wind tunnel performance in Moscow's Red Square was shown in 2009 during the presentation of logotype of Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics.


see also

2013 Moscow Victory Day Parade

Col. Gen. Chirkin led the marchers on that day's practice run on the Red Square grounds.

Cooper Union financial crisis and tuition protests

It was built from the carré rouge (red square) worn for the 2012 Quebec student protests against tuition hikes.

St. Basil's Church

Saint Basil's Cathedral, a Russian Orthodox cathedral erected on the Red Square in Moscow

Western Australia Police Pipe Band

It was represented at the Sydney Edinburgh Tattoo in 2010 and the Kremlin Zoria in Moscow's Red Square.