The Best Landmarks in Russia

Saint Petersburg

Palace Square in central St Petersburg is bordered by the Winter Palace, the General Staff Building and the Alexander Column. The Anichkov Bridge crosses the Fontanka River on Nevsky Prospekt, and visitors stop at its four Klodt sculptures of men taming horses.

Moscow

Red Square sits beside the Kremlin walls in Moscow and is framed by St. Basil's Cathedral, GUM and the State Historical Museum. People walk the cobbled square after dark, when the lights come on.

Volgograd and Novgorod

The Motherland Calls is a monumental statue of a woman with a raised sword on Mamayev Hill in Volgograd, built to commemorate the Battle of Stalingrad. The Millennium of Russia Monument in the Novgorod Kremlin is a bronze monument erected in 1862, with 128 figures of rulers, commanders and writers on a bell-shaped pedestal under a large orb.