Kul Sharif mosque fails to make it to Russia 10 project’s top ten. Part 3

The final round of the joint project, run by the Russian Geographical Society and Rossia 1 TV channel, to identify country’s new visual symbols, ended on Sunday. On 25 March, a national voting for architectural, landscape and cultural sites, aimed to select 10 sights to be in miniature replicated in a 300-hectare park under construction in Domodedovo near Moscow, began.

Early in the final round, the Kolomna Kremlin and the Heart of Chechnya mosque, named after Akhmat Kadyrov, were named as winners ahead of schedule. On Sunday, the names of other winners, including the Rostov Kremlin, Mamayev Mound with the Motherland Calling sculpture, Peterhof, Kizhi, the Trinity Lavra of Saint Sergius, lake Baikal, Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin, and Pskov Kremlin, became known.