Monuments in Russia

This effigy of Peter the Great is greatly disproportionate.

A solemn, monumental, kitschy palace of worship honoring victory in the Great Patriotic War.

This massive monument honors the first human in space.

The world's tallest statue of a woman wields the world's tallest sword and is at risk of toppling over.

A monument to Malchik, a stray dog who lived in a Moscow metro station until his tragic death.

Pictures tacked onto trees remember the more than 40,000 of Stalin's victims buried here in mass graves.

Russia's giant concrete QWERTY keyboard is likely the largest in the world.

This cuddly rodent has a place of honor at a Russian institute for genetic research.

Mostly underground in the old days Back in the USSR, today the Beatles beckon to tourists from a wall sculpture out in the open in central Russia.

It took over half a century but a Russian monument to a famous and tragic space pup finally stands in Moscow.

Thirteen sculptures in central Moscow graphically depicting vices of the modern world.

A monument to the defenders of the Arctic in Murmansk, Russia.

Ukrainian defense contractor's center for studying "pyramid energy."

Russian spa's bronze monument to enemas.

This massive glowering Lenin head gazes out over eastern Siberia.