"Stone Flower" fountain (Moscow)

Russia / Moscow / Moscow

water, 1954_construction, musical fountain

Based on a popular fairy-tale (about a jeweller who wanted to find the magic Stone Flower kept in secret caves by the Mistress of the Copper Mountain - a spirit of the Urals, in order to understand the soul of stone), the fountain boasts a big sculpture of a flower decorated with mosaics and stones from the Urals, and multiple bronze figures of swans and of "plentitude" represented by fruits, vegetables and jugs.

Google-panorama: goo.gl/maps/jchbQUh6K7qmDSAv9

Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stone_Flower_Fountain

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Coordinates: 55°49'55"N 37°37'42"E

Sviblovskiye Ponds 2.5 km
Verkhny (Pervy) Putyayevsky Pond 3.1 km
Trety Putyayevsky Pond 3.2 km
Kazyonny Pond 4.2 km
Yegersky Pond 5.3 km
Bolshoy Yekaterininsky Pond 5.4 km
Cherkizovsky (Arkhiyereysky) Pond 6.9 km
Serebryano-Vinogradny Pond 8.8 km
Oleny (Olnyany) Pond 10 km
Dekorativny Pond 11 km

Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy 0.2 km
Future park funicular under construction 0.4 km
VDNKH Green Thearte 0.7 km
Cosmonauts' City (Moscow Stellar City) 0.8 km
Ostankinsky District 0.9 km
Kamenskiye Ponds 0.9 km
Ostankino Palace 1.1 km
Ostankino Park 1.2 km
Tsytsin Main Botanical Garden of Russian Academy of Sciences 1.6 km
Severo-Vostochny Administrative Okrug 4.2 km

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Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy Future park funicular under construction VDNKH Green Thearte Cosmonauts' City (Moscow Stellar City) Ostankinsky District Kamenskiye Ponds Ostankino Palace Ostankino Park Tsytsin Main Botanical Garden of Russian Academy of Sciences Severo-Vostochny Administrative Okrug