Alyosha

A graduation party is held under the statue of Aliosha. First-year students celebrate the end of the year. (Colin Delfosse)

I was impressed when I found out that the Russians built big statues out of concrete. This one is Alyosha. It is in Murmansk, a port in Northern Russia. It is about 400 miles Northwest of Arkhangelsk, another Northern Russian port city, and about a thousand miles Northeast of Bergen, Norway, my current point of reference for all things European.


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The statue does not show too well in this satellite view, but notice the length of its shadow.
Update March 2016. Replace missing picture, lost when Military Photos website died.