After turning the old Arbat street, we came to the new Arbat street. Sveta said that in the past, there was only Arbat Street, and in the early eighties, Kalinin Boulevard, which is adjacent to Arbat Street, was renamed New Arbat Street.

The New Arbat Street is flanked symmetrically by high-rise buildings where a number of Russian ministries, banks and large corporations work. New Arbat Street is a modern commercial street, where almost all of Moscow's most famous shops are concentrated, including the new Arbat food supermarket with a wide range of expensive prices and luxurious decorations, Irish shops selling imported clothing, shoes and hats and high-end cosmetics, the popular "Spring" department store, Russian specialty snack bars and grocery stores. There is also a completely Westernized nightclub, the Cherry Casino, a small kiosk selling all kinds of gifts in front of the main mall, and Moscow's most famous jewelry store at the south end of the street.

When the weather warms up, Sveta said, the streets are full of kiosks selling all kinds of snacks, cold drinks and coffee, and parasols and chairs are very distinctive. At the end of the New Arbat Street, there is a famous building, the largest restaurant in Moscow - the Prague Hotel, which is magnificent. In comparison, at the end of the Arbat Old Street, we have just visited the Pushkin House, which is regarded as a literary mecca by countless domestic and foreign tourists, and it looks dignified and simple. The contrast between these two famous buildings and the old and new streets seems to show the ambivalence of the Russians, on the one hand, they have accepted Western values and begun to move towards marketization; On the one hand, I am nostalgic for the old days, indulging in a leisurely and quiet traditional cultural atmosphere.

We walked along New Arbat Street to a few large shops, the halls are bright and spacious, and the furnishings are similar to those of the big shopping malls in China, except that the customer aisles are very wide, and there are not many customers at this time, so the shops seem empty and deserted. Most of the products in the store are brands from Western European countries such as France, Italy, and Germany, and although there are many products that make me very excited, I lost the ** I bought after reading the price. In the end, I bought a rose gold necklace in the most famous jewelry store in Moscow and gave it to Sveta as a New Year's gift, and Sveta was very happy. Brother Chao also bought a piece of jewelry and gave it to Vera, who smiled and said, "This tour guide is not in vain. Lao Chen looked at the fat brother, squeezed the fat brother and said, "Fatty, you learn from others, I haven't seen you buy a gift for Lena on New Year's Day." The fat guy smiled and scratched his head, and asked Sveta to help him choose a necklace to give to Lena.

Seeing that the time was already noon, we found a Russian snack bar, everyone ate a hot dog and drank a cup of lemon tea, the Russian hot dog is different from the American hot dog seen in the movie, the Russian hot dog with pickled cucumber, it tastes more refreshing. Fat brother said that this is the only Western thing that the Russians have not accepted in its entirety. But what's interesting is that after the American HotDog arrived in China, it was translated as hot dog according to the meaning, which sounded very vivid, but in Russia, the Russians did not translate it, but directly called it according to the English HotDog, but the thing has been transformed into a Russian flavor. But come to think of it, translating HotDog into Russian is really not good. After eating a hot dog and drinking hot tea, I feel a lot warmer. Sveta laughs and says, "If you eat HotDog, you become a warm dog." ”

After strolling through the famous Arbat Street, we took the tube to Wittenham. Brother Chao used to say that Wittenhain is "the transliteration of the first letter of the Russian language at the All-Russian Exhibition Center." The All-Russian Exhibition Center was called the "Exhibition Hall of the Achievements of the National Economy of the Soviet Union" in the former Soviet Union. We got out of the Wittenham subway station, and the first thing we saw was a very magnificent semi-circular high-rise building, and if we looked carefully at the words on the upper floor, it was the Universe Hotel. The dark red building of more than 20 floors, with a long oval shape that seems to open its arms to the front. Directly in front of the Cosmos Hotel is the majestic exhibition complex of the National Economic Achievements of the former Soviet Union, on the left hand is the Ostankino TV transmission tower, the tallest in Russia, which we climbed yesterday, and on the right hand is a silver monument to the sky and space. Sveta said that the space monument is made of titanium. I listened to it and thought to myself that this space monument was worth a lot of money. The red façade of the hotel, the gray TV tower, the silver-white monument and the gold-domed exhibition sculpture are contrasted with each other, and several of Moscow's most famous buildings meet here.

In 1964, in order to commemorate the first satellite to be launched into space in April 1957 and the first person to be sent into space in April 1961, the former Soviet Union built a space monument on the Peace Avenue on the south side of the All-Russian Exhibition Center, also called the Cosmonautics Monument. The monument is 107 meters high. This cosmonautical monument shows the power of the Soviet Union to dominate the world in the fifties and sixties.

In front of the monument is Konstantin, the father of Russian rocketry? Tsiolkovsky's statue, in the center of the avenue ahead is a five-star chronology of aerospace events, with a rocket flying into space at the top, and an astronautical museum at the bottom; On both sides are statues of scientists and cosmonauts who contributed to the conquest of the universe, and there is the chief designer of the spacecraft, Sergei. Krolev, the world's first cosmonaut Gagarin, etc.; The bottom of the monument is flanked by reliefs. On one side the background is the sun and a hammer and sickle held by the maiden in her hands, and on the other side the background is Lenin waving his finger forward.

The gate of Wittenham is a very tall and magnificent colonnaded building, topped by sculptures of men and women holding ears of wheat aloft. When we walked to the gate, we saw a few patrolling policemen, but they were very leisurely basking in the sun and ignored us. Sveta told me that the entire exhibition hall of Wittenham covers an area of 300 hectares, with a perimeter of 35 kilometers. The 15 republics of the former Soviet Union have special pavilions here, showcasing the latest great scientific and technological achievements in the fields of economy and technology. The exhibition center consists of 45 main buildings. There are nearly 100 exhibition halls such as industry and aerospace, with more than 100,000 exhibits, including the first artificial satellite in human history and the first astronaut's spacesuit.

When we enter Wittenhaim, we find that the design here is somewhat like the ancient Chinese palace complex, the central axis facing the gate are all important buildings, very magnificent, and the buildings on both sides are some symmetrical, some have their own characteristics, anyway, each building has strong characteristics. We walked to the center of Wittenham and saw the most famous central fountain of great scale, the "Fountain of Friendship of People", which is composed of a group of fifteen maidens of different nationalities holding ears of wheat in their hands, surrounded by layers of gilded statues of wheat stacks symbolizing a good harvest. Brother Chao said that fifteen maidens of different nationalities holding ears of wheat symbolize the fifteen republics of the former Soviet Union. The only pity is that a very high light blue barbed wire has been added to the outside, which greatly reduces this beautiful landscape.

There are a lot of entertainment facilities in Vuitton Han, Sveta pulling me on a small train and a go-kart. At the go-kart, Sveta grabbed my hand and screamed like a child.