Kilometre Zero • Moscow

Geographical marker: the Kilometre Zero marker at the Resurrection Gate, the entrance to Red Square from Manezhnaya Square in Moscow. The bronze marker was laid in 1995 and is regarded as the symbolic centre of Moscow and the zero point for distances in Russia. Visitors traditionally stand in the middle, make a wish and throw a coin. The photo shows part of the marker with the brass edge that carries the cardinal directions, here the word ЗАПАД (west).