Moscow Travel Guide
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Red Square and the Kremlin Visiting Moscow, best in late spring or autumn when the weather is warm and sunny, there is simply no better place to start your sightseeing than its historic heart--the Red Square (Krasnaia Ploshchad') . Much of Russia's turbulent history has played out either in public on the Red Square itself or in private behind the walls of the … Read Moscow introduction
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St. Basil's Cathedral (Sobor Vasiliia Blazhennogo)
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Possibly the most widely-recognized of Russia's architectural monuments, St. Basil's looms at the southern end of Red Square in all its multi-colored, multi-coned glory. The cathedral's real name is the Cathedral of the …
Starlite Diner
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The Starlite Diner ranks among the most striking of all novelties in modern Moscow—an authentic, allegedly completely American-made chrome-plated American diner that appears like an alien spacecraft among the city's …
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Introduction
Moscow is the barometer and nucleus of the changes sweeping through Russia. Nowhere are Russia's contrasts more apparent than here - ancient monasteries and ultra-modern monoliths stand side by side, and 'New Russian' millionaires and poverty-stricken pensioners walk the same streets.
Not to miss
Gorky Park Stretching almost 3km (1.8mi) along the river, Gorky Park is full of that sometimes rare species - the happy Russian. Officially the 'Park of Culture', named after Maxim Gorky, it's the original Soviet park - part ornamental and educational, part funfair and amusement park, and a good …
Facts for the Traveller
Population : 8300000 Area : 1035km² Longitude / Latitude : 37.7000007629 / 55.75 Currency : Ruble (RUB) Weights & Measures system : Metric
Getting there & Getting around
Getting there If you're coming in from an overseas flight, you'll likely fly into either Domodedovo or Sheremetevo-2; there are also additional airports to handle travel to domestic destinations and the ex-Soviet states. There's a network of comfy-enough buses that run to places within about a …
History
Recent History By the mid-1990s Moscow was very much the vanguard of the 'New Russia', filling up with all the things Russians had expected capitalism to bring but which had barely begun to percolate down to the provinces: banks, stock exchanges, casinos, advertising, BMWs, new shops, hotels, …
Weather
July and August are the warmest months in Moscow. Summer days are long and can be wet. By the end of November Moscow is frozen most of the time; be warned that serious snow arrives in December and stays until April. Spring arrives fast and with a great thaw, a month or so long, during which people go a …
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Overview
It may be difficult for Westerners to appreciate what an important place Moscow holds in the Russian imagination as a symbol of spiritual and political power. Throughout much of its history the city was known as Holy Moscow, and was valued as a point of pilgrimage not unlike Jerusalem, Mecca, or …
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Popular Attractions in Moscow
- 1.Modern Art Museum (Muzei Sovremennogo Iskusstva)
- 2.St. Basil's Cathedral (Sobor Vasiliia Blazhennogo)
- 3.Sokol'niki Dvorets Sporta (Sokol'niki Palace of Sport)
- 4.Church of Kosmas and Damian (Tserkov Kos'my i Damiana)
- 5.Cathedral of the Assumption (Uspenskii Sobor)
- 6.Iliushin Aviation Complex (Aviacomplex imeni Iliushina)
- 7.Cathedral of the Epiphany in Elokhovo
- 8.Central House of Aviation and Cosmonautics (Tsentral'nyi Dom Aviatsii i Kosmonavtiki)
- 9.Church of Archangel Michael in Troparevo
- 10.Armenian Apostolic Church of the Resurrection (Armianskaia Apostol'skaia Tserkov Sviatogo Voskreseniya)
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