Moscow Gets Its Own Mt. Russ-More
Russians strolling through Gorky Park will soon look up at giant plastic faces of four former U.S. presidents in a replica of Mt. Rushmore.
The replica will go on display in the central Moscow park later this month as part of a new attraction. The busts of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt will be slightly more than half the size of the originals, carved in stone in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
The German construction firm FAB also is putting up several new rides, including a Dutch roller coaster. Helmut Schreiber, an FAB official, said he had no idea why the attraction’s financial backer, whom he identified only as a Russian businessman living in Germany, wanted to replicate Mt. Rushmore.
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