St Petersburg's Moscow Triumphal Gates are so named as they stand at the beginning of Moskovsky Prospekt and the end of Moskovskoe Shosse (Moscow Highway) which is the main road into the city from Moscow. The gates were installed in 1838 and were designed by architect Vasili Stasov. They were built out of cast iron in the empire style and decorated with various friezes of a military theme. After the Revolution the gates were dismantled and the metal blocks were even used to from part of an anti-tank defence. The gates were eventually recreated between 1958 and 1960.