The Peoples Friendship Fountain (1951-54) at All-Russia Exhibition Centre (VDNKh), Moscow. 16 golden sculptures represent republics of the Soviet Union: the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (Ukrainian SSR), the Uzbek SSR, the Georgian SSR, the Lithuanian SSR, the Latvian SSR, the Tajik SSR, the Turkmen SSR, the Karelo-Finnish SSR, the Estonian SSR, the Armenian SSR, the Moldavian SSR, the Kirghiz (Kyrgyz ) SSR, the Azerbaijan SSR, the Kazakh SSR & the Soviet Socialist Republic of Belarus (Byelorussian SSR). The project of the fountain by architects K. Topuridze & G. Konstantinovsky.
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I’ve heard about some of the fountains, I’m not sure which one it is but one of them has drinkable water, can you enlighten me to which one it is?
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Well, actually you can drink from any of them. But only once)) Seriously speaking, there used to be some, e.g. (in Russian): http://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/moscow/3366/фонтаны.
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