Red Square Facts for Kids

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Kremlin and Red Square, Moscow
UNESCO World Heritage Site
View from northwest, from the State Historical Museum, with Saint Basil's Cathedral and the Spasskaya Tower in the background
Location	Moscow, Russia
Criteria	Cultural: i, ii, iv, vi
Inscription	1990 (14th Session)

Red Square (Russian: Красная площадь, Krasnaya ploshchad) is the most famous city square in Moscow, Russia. The square separates the Kremlin, the former royal citadel and currently the official residence of the President of Russia, from a historic merchant quarter known as Kitay-gorod (China-Town). As major streets of Moscow radiate from here in all directions, being promoted to major highways outside the city, the Red Square is often considered the central square of Moscow and of all Russia.

Red Square and the Kremlin are a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Joseph Stalin's body was preserved near Red Square, in Lenin's mausoleum. It was later moved and reburied deep behind the Kremlin Wall without any ceremony.

Red Square is a popular tourist attraction in Russia.

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Map of Red Square from 1917
Moscow Kremlin (finished 1495)
State Historical Museum, as seen from the Red Square
Resurrection Gate, facing southeast
Kazan Cathedral
GUM
Middle Trade Rows
Lobnoye Mesto at the center
Monument to Minin and Pozharsky
Saint Basil's Cathedral
Lenin's Mausolem, as seen in front of the Kremlin
17th century Palm Sunday procession leaving Saint Basil for Kremlin.
Execution of streltsy by Tsar Peter I (to the right on a horse) in Red Square, 1698 (painted 1881)
Book shops at the Spassky bridge at the main gate of the Kremlin
Kazan Cathedral (1993 reconstruction, it originates back to 1612–25)
Zemsky prikaz, town hall built 1700
The Kremlin with Alevizov moat and Nikolskaya Tower in front. By Fyodor Alekseyev, 1800
Red Square with St. Basil's Cathedral and Moscow Kremlin in background, by Fyodor Alekseyev, 1801
Left-right: Zemsky prikaz, Voskresensky gates, Provincial Board and Kazan Cathedral, 1802
Left-right: market lines by Bove, Saint Basil and Kremlin. View from 1816. Market lines were replaced by GUM store in 1893
Minin-Pozharsky monument from 1818 commemorating the expulsion of the Polish forces from Moscow, 19th century
Saint Basil's Cathedral, Monument to Minin and Pozharsky and Spasskaya Tower in 1908
Lenin's mausoleum
2008 Military parade marking the sixty-third anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War
Red Army soldiers cheer Joseph Stalin in Red Square in a scene from the 1942 film Moscow Strikes Back
A soldier during a parade on Red Square in 2017.

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