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They walked along the granite embankments of the Neva, past the magnificent Admiralty building and its proud white columns, its countless statues and friezes depicting figures from myths and ancient times.

They identified the feature as the Jinlin crater, a bowl-shaped structure positioned on a hillside and protected within a thick layer of weathered granite.

Obelisks were carved at the granite quarry in Aswan, Egypt.

Theirs are among 51 names on that pale grey granite cenotaph.

Nikita Khrushchev and other top officials watched from atop the red granite mausoleum holding the bodies of the former Soviet leaders Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin.