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🌳 Alexander Garden
A garden along the Kremlin wall in three parts: the Eternal Flame, the Ruins Grotto and flower beds by the Manege.
6 routes
🏛 Red Square
The country's main square, paved with cobblestones, between the Kremlin, GUM, the State Historical Museum and St Basil's Cathedral.
11 routes
🖼 State Historical Museum
A red-brick Russian-style building of the 1870s–80s with tent-roof towers, the largest history museum in Russia.
3 routes
🚶 Nikolskaya Street
A pedestrian street from Red Square to Lubyanka with the Kazan Cathedral, the Print Yard and garlands overhead.
11 routes
🏛 GUM
Late-19th-century trading rows under glass vaults, with openwork bridges over three arcades.
9 routes
🏛 St Basil's Cathedral
The 16th-century Cathedral of the Intercession with colourful onion domes, the symbol of Moscow at the edge of Red Square.
3 routes
🌳 Zaryadye Park
A park by the Kremlin walls with landscapes of Russia's different zones, hills, underground pavilions and a concert hall.
10 routes
✨ Media Centre and "Flight over Moscow" in Zaryadye
A semi-underground pavilion of the park by Red Square with media attractions, an exhibition hall and a tourist centre.
1 route
🚶 Varvarka Street
A short ancient street in Kitay-gorod with a string of churches, the Old English Court and the Romanov boyars' chambers on the slope down…
7 routes
🏛 Pushkin Square
A square on Tverskaya with a garden, fountains and Opekushin's bronze Pushkin of 1880.
7 routes
🚶 Tverskoy Boulevard
A long, wide boulevard of lime trees and lawns between Pushkin Square and Nikitskiye Vorota, passing the Gorky Moscow Art Theatre.
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🏛 Nikitskiye Vorota
A square at the junction of boulevards with a rotunda fountain of Pushkin and Goncharova and the Empire-style Church of the Great Ascension.
9 routes
🖼 Bulgakov Museum (the "Bad Apartment")
The Art Nouveau Pigit apartment building where Bulgakov lived in 1921–1924 and from which he "moved" Woland and his retinue into the novel.
5 routes
🌳 Patriarch's Ponds (Patriarshiye Prudy)
A square pond surrounded by old lime trees and benches, a calm park amid quiet lanes and the setting of The Master and Margarita.
14 routes
🖼 Tretyakov Gallery
The main collection of Russian art in a fairy-tale building to Vasnetsov's design, from ancient icons to painting of the early 20th century.
7 routes
🏛 Marfo-Mariinsky Convent
A convent founded by Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, with a church in the spirit of Pskov-Novgorod architecture.
4 routes
🏛 Church of St Clement
A huge red-and-white five-domed 18th-century church, a rare example of Elizabethan Baroque in Moscow.
7 routes
🚶 Pyatnitskaya Street
Zamoskvorechye's main street with low-rise 19th-century houses, churches and cafés on the ground floors.
5 routes
🌳 Muzeon Art Park
A sculpture park on the embankment by Krymsky Bridge: Soviet monuments taken off their pedestals, and contemporary sculpture.
8 routes
🌳 Gorky Park
A big central park along the Moskva River with fountains, lawns, cafés, rentals and a skating rink in winter.
10 routes
🖼 Garage Museum of Contemporary Art
A contemporary art museum in the former Vremena Goda restaurant of 1968, converted into a gallery.
5 routes
🌳 Neskuchny Garden
A hilly, wooded part of the park zone on the river bank, with ravines, bridges and 18th-century estate pavilions.
6 routes
🌅 Andreevsky Bridge
A 1907 arched railway bridge moved here in 1999–2000, with a covered glass gallery above the Moskva River.
4 routes
🌅 Sparrow Hills viewpoint (Vorobyovy Gory)
A platform on the high right bank with a panorama of the bend of the Moskva River, Luzhniki and the city centre.
9 routes
🖼 Moscow Planetarium
One of the world's oldest planetariums, opened in 1929, with a domed star hall and interactive exhibits.
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✨ Moscow Zoo
Russia's oldest zoo, from 1864, on two sites linked by a pedestrian bridge over the street.
3 routes
🏛 VDNKh Main Entrance
A monumental 1950s triumphal arch topped with the Tractor Driver and Collective Farm Girl sculpture, with a wide main avenue behind it.
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🏛 Friendship of Peoples Fountain
A big 1954 fountain at the centre of VDNKh: gilded statues around a sheaf of grain in a granite bowl.
3 routes
🖼 Kosmos Pavilion
A pavilion with an arched glass dome and a Vostok rocket at the entrance, with authentic spacecraft inside.
3 routes
✨ Moskvarium
One of Europe's largest oceanariums, at VDNKh: tanks with sharks and rays, plus marine animal shows.
4 routes
✨ GES-2 House of Culture
A former power station across from the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, rebuilt by Renzo Piano into an open house of culture with…
14 routes
🌅 Patriarshy Bridge
A pedestrian bridge over the Moskva River from the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour to Bersenevskaya Embankment.
13 routes
🚶 Krasny Oktyabr Island
The tip of Bolotny Island, with the buildings of a former chocolate factory that now house bars, offices and exhibitions.
4 routes
🖼 New Tretyakov Gallery
The building on Krymsky Val with 20th-century Russian art, from the avant-garde to socialist realism and the Thaw.
5 routes
🏛 Danilov Monastery
A monastery behind white walls, with a gate bell tower and several churches from the 17th–19th centuries.
3 routes
🏛 Shukhov Tower
A steel lattice tower made of six hyperboloid sections, an engineering landmark by Vladimir Shukhov. According to RTRS's plan, repairs…
4 routes
🏛 Donskoy Monastery
A 16th-century monastery with a red wall, a large cathedral and an old cemetery with the gravestones of famous people.
4 routes
🚶 Kuznetsky Most
A pedestrian street on the site of an old bridge over the Neglinka, lined with early 20th-century apartment buildings and shops.
5 routes
🚶 Rozhdestvensky Boulevard
A boulevard that drops steeply to Trubnaya Square, with shady lindens and the Nativity Convent at the foot of the slope.
5 routes
🏛 Sretensky Monastery
A 14th-century monastery on Lubyanka with the Church of the Presentation of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God and a seminary behind…
8 routes
🌳 Chistye Prudy (Clean Ponds)
A boulevard with a pond in the middle, swan houses and a floating café on the water.
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🏛 Bolshoi Theatre
The country's main opera and ballet theatre, with an eight-column portico and Apollo's quadriga above the entrance.
9 routes
🚶 Stoleshnikov Lane (Stoleshnikov Pereulok)
A short pedestrian lane in the centre, with 19th-century apartment buildings and expensive shops.
4 routes
🏛 Eurasia Square (formerly Europe Square)
The square by Kievsky Station (until July 2024 called Europe Square) with a fountain, The Abduction of Europa, made of steel rods, and a…
3 routes
🚶 Taras Shevchenko Embankment
The embankment opposite Moscow City, with a wide promenade, piers and a view of the skyscrapers across the river.
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✨ Bagration Bridge
A covered pedestrian bridge-gallery between Taras Shevchenko Embankment and Moscow City. Closed for reconstruction from 12 May 2025 to the…
🌅 Panorama 360 observation deck
An observation deck at a height of 327 m in the Federation Tower, with views over all of Moscow through glass walls.
7 routes
🏛 Spassky Gate of Kolomenskoye
A white gate from the 1670s with two arched passages, the entrance to the former tsar's estate, with the Kazan Church with its blue domes…
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🏛 Church of the Ascension in Kolomenskoye
A white-stone tent-roofed church on a high bank, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
7 routes
🌳 Golosov Ravine
A deep wooded ravine with a stream and springs, descending to the Moskva River in Kolomenskoye.
6 routes
🖼 Palace of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich
A reconstructed 17th-century wooden palace with towers, tent roofs and painted chambers.
5 routes
🖼 Grand Tsaritsyno Palace
A pseudo-Gothic palace of red brick with white-stone decoration, built by Kazakov for Catherine II.
4 routes
✨ Tsaritsyno Greenhouses
Three restored greenhouses by the palace with palms, citrus trees and exotic plants.
4 routes
✨ Singing Fountain
A large fountain on the Middle Tsaritsyno Pond, where the jets move to music and lighting.
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🌳 Tsaritsyno Ponds
A cascade of large ponds around the estate with a dam, bridges and views of the palace ensemble.
3 routes
🏛 Arbatskaya Square
The square at the start of the Arbat, with the Khudozhestvenny cinema and a metro station shaped like a five-pointed star.
3 routes
🚶 Old Arbat (Staryi Arbat)
A pedestrian street about a kilometre long, with 19th-century mansions, cafés and street artists.
10 routes
🏛 Melnikov House
A house of two intersecting cylinders with hexagonal windows, built by Konstantin Melnikov for himself in 1927–1929.
5 routes
🏛 Tsoi Wall
The wall of a building on the Arbat, covered with graffiti and messages from fans of Viktor Tsoi.
3 routes
🖼 Pushkin Apartment Museum on the Arbat
A two-storey mansion on the Arbat where the second floor recreates the setting of Pushkin's rooms.
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🏛 Foreign Ministry skyscraper on Smolenskaya
The Stalinist Foreign Ministry skyscraper on Smolenskaya Square, 172 m tall, with a spire and the Soviet coat of arms.
5 routes
🖼 Tolstoy Estate in Khamovniki
A preserved city estate where Tolstoy lived with his family in winters from 1882 to 1901, with its authentic interiors.
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🏛 Church of St Nicholas in Khamovniki
A five-domed 17th-century church painted in green, red and white, with a tall tent-roofed bell tower.
2 routes
🏛 Novodevichy Convent
A 16th–17th-century convent with crenellated walls, the Smolensk Cathedral and a tall bell tower, a UNESCO site.
7 routes
🌳 Novodevichy Pond
A pond by the convent walls reflecting the bell tower and the Smolensk Cathedral, with a path and benches around it.
6 routes
✨ Winzavod Centre for Contemporary Art
The 19th-century brick workshops of a former wine factory, with contemporary art galleries, showrooms and cafés.
3 routes
✨ Artplay Design Centre
A creative cluster in the buildings of a former factory near Kursky Station, with exhibitions and furniture and design showrooms.
3 routes
🖼 Andronikov Monastery and the Rublev Museum
A 14th-century monastery above the Yauza behind white walls, where, according to tradition, Andrei Rublev lived and was buried.
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🚶 Yauza Embankment
The embankment of the small Yauza River, with walking paths, small bridges and views of old factory buildings.
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✨ Izmailovo Kremlin
A newly built wooden "kremlin" with towers, painted terems and a tent-roofed church next to the Vernisazh market.
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✨ Vernisazh in Izmailovo
An open-air flea market and rows of stalls with crafts, carpets, antiques and Soviet items.
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🏛 Sovereign's Court on Izmailovo Island
An island among ponds with the five-domed 17th-century Intercession Cathedral, the Bridge Tower and the gate of the tsar's estate.
3 routes
🌳 Druzhby Park (Friendship Park)
A park by Leningradskoye Highway, laid out for the 1957 youth festival, with ponds and avenues.
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🌳 Northern River Terminal Park
A 1930s park around the Northern River Terminal, with a view of the Khimki Reservoir and a promenade along the water.
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🏛 Northern River Terminal
A 1937 terminal built like a ship, with a spire, long galleries and moorings on the Moscow Canal.
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🌳 Nagatinskaya Poyma Park
A large park on a peninsula in a bend of the Moskva River, with an embankment, lawns and sports grounds.
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✨ Ostrov Mechty (Dream Island) amusement park
A large indoor amusement park on the Nagatinskaya Poyma, with themed zones based on cartoons.
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🏛 Main entrance to Sokolniki
The arched entrance complex of the park at Sokolnicheskaya Square, from which a wide avenue leads deep into the forest.
6 routes
🌳 Fountain Square in Sokolniki
A round square with a large fountain, from which the main clearings of the old park radiate like rays.
6 routes
🌳 Rose Garden in Sokolniki
A rose garden from 1957 with thousands of rose bushes, themed gardens, fountains and benches in the middle of a forest park.
5 routes
🌳 Putyayevsky Ponds
A chain of forest ponds deep in Sokolniki, surrounded by old trees and paths.
3 routes
🏛 Epiphany Cathedral in Yelokhovo
A five-domed Empire-style cathedral with rich decoration, for a long time Moscow's cathedral church.
6 routes
🏛 Lefortovo Palace
A two-storey stone palace of the late 17th century, built for Franz Lefort, now a military archive.
3 routes
🏛 Catherine Palace
A huge late 18th-century Neoclassical palace with a colonnade of 16 columns, built for Catherine II.
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🌳 Lefortovo Park
An 18th-century estate park with a cascade of ponds, islands and a Rastrelli grotto decorated with shells.
3 routes
🖼 Kuskovo Estate Palace
The 18th-century Sheremetev estate: a wooden palace, a formal French park, pavilions and ponds.
3 routes
🌳 Kuskovo Great Pond
A large pond dug by serfs, opposite the main house, with a view of the church and bell tower.
3 routes
🏛 Kuskovo Grotto
An 18th-century Baroque pavilion with a domed hall decorated with shells and tufa.
3 routes
🖼 Ceramics Museum in the Great Stone Orangery
An 18th-century stone orangery in Kuskovo with one of Russia's largest collections of porcelain and glass.
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🌅 Ostankino TV Tower
The tallest structure in Europe at 540 m, with a glassed-in observation deck at a height of 337 m.
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🏛 Ostankino Estate and Ostankino Pond
The Sheremetevs' wooden palace of the late 18th century with a theatre hall (currently under restoration, visible from the outside; the…
5 routes
🌳 Japanese Garden of the Botanical Garden
A garden in the Botanical Garden of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the traditional Japanese style, with a pond, stone lanterns…
3 routes
🚶 Povarskaya Street
A street in the Arbat area with 18th–19th-century mansions and embassies, a quiet corner just steps from New Arbat.
4 routes
🖼 Chekhov House Museum
A two-storey red-brick house on Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya where Chekhov lived with his family in 1886–1890.
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🏛 Kudrinskaya Square skyscraper
A residential Stalinist skyscraper of 1954 on Vosstaniya Square, with stepped wings and a spire.
4 routes
🏛 Narkomfin Building
Moisei Ginzburg's Constructivist communal house on pilotis (stilts) with ribbon windows.
5 routes
🚶 Maroseyka Street
An old street from Kitay-Gorod to Pokrovka with mansions, churches and small cafés.
3 routes
🏛 Ivanovsky Convent on Ivanovskaya Gorka
A convent behind high walls on a hillside, with a 19th-century cathedral and a quiet courtyard.
7 routes
🏛 Khitrovskaya Square
A small square-park on the slope of Ivanovskaya Gorka, on the site of the famous 19th-century flophouse market.
6 routes
🚶 Khokhlovsky Lane and the Ukraintsev Chambers
A steep, curving lane with the chambers of a 17th-century duma clerk and a courtyard covered in graffiti.
10 routes
🏛 Luzhniki
Russia's largest stadium, surrounded by a sports complex and the Moskva River embankment.
5 routes
✨ Luzhniki – Sparrow Hills cable car
A gondola cable car about 720 m long over the Moskva River, with views of Luzhniki and Moscow State University.
6 routes
🌳 Sparrow Hills Eco-trail
Wooden boardwalks and stairs down the slope of the Sparrow Hills, through forest with springs.
3 routes
🏛 Moscow State University Main Building
The tallest Stalinist skyscraper, 235 m with its spire, with a clock, a star on the spire and sculptures on the facade.
3 routes
🏛 Kremlin Cathedral Square
The Kremlin's main square, with white-stone cathedrals of the 15th–16th centuries and the Ivan the Great Bell Tower.
4 routes
🏛 Tsar Cannon and Tsar Bell
A 16th-century bronze cannon weighing about 40 tonnes and the world's largest bell, with a broken-off edge.
2 routes
🖼 Armoury Chamber
The Kremlin's oldest treasury: crowns, thrones, armour, diplomatic gifts and state carriages.
2 routes
🏛 Kotelnicheskaya Embankment skyscraper
A residential Stalinist skyscraper at the confluence of the Yauza and the Moskva River, 176 m tall, with three wings and a spire.
6 routes
🚶 Goncharnaya Sloboda (Potters' Quarter)
A quiet district on a hill beyond Taganka with 17th-century churches and the low-rise buildings of the former potters.
4 routes
🖼 Bunker-42 on Taganka
A former Cold War backup command post with tunnels under the street and halls for tours.
4 routes
🚶 Gogolevsky Boulevard
A boulevard with two avenues at different levels, a monument to Gogol and a view of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.
1 route
🚶 Petrovsky Boulevard
A short boulevard between Trubnaya and Petrovskiye Vorota, with lindens and mansions on both sides.
4 routes
🚶 Yauzsky Boulevard
A short boulevard at the end of the Boulevard Ring, descending a hill to Yauzskiye Vorota.
3 routes
🚶 Frunzenskaya Embankment
A long embankment with Stalinist buildings and a wide pavement along the Moskva River.
3 routes
🌅 Krymsky Bridge
A 1938 steel suspension bridge with openwork pylons, linking Gorky Park and Ostozhenka.
7 routes
🏛 Manezhnaya Square
A wide square between the Kremlin, the Manege and the Hotel Moskva, with a monument to Zhukov and the glass dome of a shopping centre.
3 routes
🚶 Kamergersky Lane (Kamergersky Pereulok)
A pedestrian lane between Tverskaya and Bolshaya Dmitrovka, with the Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre building and monuments at its entrance.
6 routes
🏛 Yeliseyev House (former Yeliseyevsky shop)
A neo-Gothic facade and display windows of 1901; the food hall itself has been closed since 2021.
7 routes
🖼 Paleontological Museum
A museum in a red-brick building with an inner courtyard, one of the largest paleontological museums in the world.
2 routes
🖼 Darwin Museum
A large museum of evolution with stuffed animals, dioramas and interactive exhibits about nature.
2 routes
🖼 Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
A classical columned building of 1912 housing European art from the ancient world to modern times.
4 routes
🖼 Gallery of European and American Art of the 19th–20th Centuries
A wing on Volkhonka with a collection of Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, one of the best in the world.
5 routes
🏛 Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
Russia's largest Orthodox cathedral, rebuilt in the 1990s, with white walls and golden domes.
10 routes
✨ Khlebozavod No. 9 creative cluster
A creative quarter in the buildings of a Constructivist bread factory, with shops, cafés and showrooms.
4 routes
✨ Design Zavod (formerly Flacon)
A creative cluster on the grounds of the former Crystal Factory, with workshops and design shops; until it was sold in 2021 it was called…
4 routes
✨ ZIL Cultural Centre
A 1930s palace of culture by the Vesnin brothers, with clubs, a concert hall and exhibitions.
2 routes
🚶 ZILART quarter
A new residential quarter on the site of the ZIL plant, where the buildings were designed by various well-known architects.
3 routes
🌳 Tyufeleva Roshcha Park
A modern park on the site of the ZIL car plant, with sculpted terrain, a cascade of ponds, small bridges and viewing hills.
4 routes
🌳 Apothecaries' Garden (Aptekarsky Ogorod)
Russia's oldest botanical garden, founded under Peter I, with a pond, greenhouses and centuries-old trees.
8 routes
🏛 Sukharevskaya Square
A square on the Garden Ring with the Sheremetev Hospital, now the Sklifosovsky Institute.
3 routes
🚶 Sretenka Street
An old street with low 19th-century buildings, with shops and cafés on the ground floors.
3 routes
🌳 Serebryany Bor
A forested island in a bend of the Moskva River, with pine woods, beaches, bays and eco-trails.
3 routes
🌳 Lake Bezdonnoe (Bottomless Lake)
A small lake in the pine forest of Serebryany Bor: a former oxbow that was enlarged in the 1950s and connected to the Moskva River, so it…
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🌳 Serebryany Bor beaches
Sandy beaches along the channels and bays of the Moskva River in a pine forest.
3 routes
🌅 Borodinsky Bridge
A 1912 bridge with colonnades and obelisks in memory of the war of 1812.
3 routes
🏛 Pier by the Hotel Ukraina
A pier on Taras Shevchenko Embankment by the Stalinist skyscraper, the Hotel Ukraina (now Radisson Collection), from where river…
2 routes
✨ Icebreaker cruise on the Moskva River
A river trip past the Kremlin and the centre of Moscow on a boat that can also sail in the cold season.
3 routes
🖼 Borodino Battle Panorama Museum
A round building of 1962 with a huge panorama and a foreground display about the battle of 1812.
3 routes
🏛 Triumphal Arch on Kutuzovsky
Bove's white-stone arch with the chariot of Glory, put up in memory of the victory of 1812.
2 routes
🌳 Victory Park on Poklonnaya Hill
A memorial park with a 141.8 m Victory Monument, fountains and the Victory Museum.
2 routes
🖼 MSU Zoological Museum
A museum in a 19th-century building with huge halls, display cases and skeletons of large animals.
3 routes
🏛 Moscow Conservatory
A late 19th-century building with the Great Hall, where the world's best musicians perform.
3 routes
🖼 Gogol House
A manor on Nikitsky Boulevard where Gogol spent his last years and burned the second volume of Dead Souls.
5 routes
🏛 Novospassky Monastery
A monastery on a hill above the Moskva River with mighty walls, towers and a tall bell tower.
5 routes
🏛 Krutitskoye Compound (Krutitskoye Podvorye)
A former residence of the metropolitans with passageways, chambers and a tile-clad Terem (Teremok).
5 routes
🏛 Moscow International House of Music
A modern concert complex by the Moskva River with a Great Hall and an organ.
2 routes
🏛 Metropol Hotel
A 1905 Art Nouveau hotel with mosaics, a facade and a stained-glass dome over the restaurant.
3 routes
🏛 Monument to the Conquerors of Space
A titanium rocket-shaped stele at VDNKh, a 1964 monument to space exploration.
3 routes
🖼 Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics
A museum in the base of the monument with real rockets, satellites and capsules.
2 routes
🚶 Cosmonauts Alley
A wide alley from the monument to VDNKh with monuments to Korolev and the first cosmonauts.
3 routes
🖼 Experimentanium Science Museum
An interactive museum with hundreds of exhibits you can spin, press and test on yourself.
3 routes
🚶 Sokol Artists' Village
A guarded 1920s village with wooden houses and streets named after artists.
2 routes
🌳 Khodynskoye Pole Park
A large modern park on a former airfield with lawns, paths and a view of Aviapark.
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✨ KidZania Kids' City of Professions
A mini-city in a shopping mall where children try out different professions.
2 routes
✨ Cylinder Aquarium at Aviapark
A cylindrical aquarium with thousands of tropical fish in the middle of the Aviapark mall atrium.
3 routes
🏛 Kuzminki Estate
An 18th–19th-century Golitsyn estate with classical wings, bridges and ponds.
3 routes
🏛 Kuzminki Horse Yard
The Horse Yard ensemble of 1819–1823 by Gilardi, with Klodt's cast-iron horses by the pavilion.
3 routes
🌳 Kuzminki Ponds
A chain of ponds in Kuzminki forest park with dams, little bridges and walking paths.
3 routes
✨ Central Children's Store on Lubyanka (Detsky Mir)
The country's largest children's store, in a 1957 building with an atrium and a rooftop viewing platform.
10 routes
🚶 Ilyinka Street
An old Kitay-gorod street running from Red Square, with banks, the stock exchange and the Gostiny Dvor arcade.
3 routes
🖼 Museum of Russian Impressionism
A private museum in the former Bolshevik factory building with a collection of Russian painting from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
3 routes
🚶 Bolshevik Quarter
A former confectionery factory by Leningradsky Prospekt, turned into an office quarter with a museum.
3 routes
🚶 Ostozhenka Street
A street from the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour to the Moskva River with 19th-century mansions and upscale new buildings.
4 routes
🖼 Multimedia Art Museum (MAMM)
A museum of photography and media art in a modern building on Ostozhenka with exhibitions from different eras.
2 routes
🖼 Museum of Moscow
A museum in the former Provision Warehouses of the 1830s about the life of the city from ancient times to today.
5 routes
🚶 Prechistenka Street
A street from the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour to the Garden Ring with 19th-century estates and mansions.
3 routes
🖼 Ryabushinsky Mansion (Gorky Museum)
A Shekhtel mansion of 1900 with a wave-like staircase, stained glass and mosaics.
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🚶 Spiridonovka Street
A street between Patriarch's Ponds and Nikitskaya with Art Nouveau mansions and quiet courtyards.
3 routes
🏛 Zinaida Morozova's Mansion
A Shekhtel mansion of 1893 in the Neo-Gothic style with turrets and pointed windows.
4 routes
🏛 Shekhtel's Own Mansion
The architect's own Art Nouveau house of 1896 with asymmetrical facades and tiles.
3 routes
🏛 Komsomolskaya metro station (Circle line)
A 1952 metro station with Baroque-style vaults, chandeliers and mosaics on the ceiling.
5 routes
🏛 Novoslobodskaya metro station
A 1952 columned hall with 32 stained-glass panels in brass frames and Pavel Korin's mosaic "Peace in the Whole World" at the end.
3 routes
🏛 Mayakovskaya metro station
A light columned hall of 1938 with arches and pink rhodonite; a ceremonial meeting was held here in November 1941.
5 routes
🏛 Ploshchad Revolyutsii metro station
Under the hall's arches are 76 bronze figures by Manizer: workers, soldiers, students, athletes and families of the Soviet era.
5 routes
🏛 Kievskaya metro station (Circle line)
A lavish hall of 1954 with white pylons, stucco and gilding, one of the most ornate metro stations.
3 routes
🏛 Church of the Intercession at Fili
A red-and-white tiered church of the 1690s built by Lev Naryshkin; inside is a carved, gilded iconostasis.
5 routes
🌳 Filyovsky Park
A large park on the high bank of the Moskva River: the former Naryshkin estate with alleys, woods and paths down to the water.
4 routes
🚶 Filyovsky Park Embankment
A walking path right along the water at the foot of the park's wooded slopes, with benches and rest spots.
5 routes
🏛 Rostokino Aqueduct
A white-stone aqueduct about 356 m long on 21 arches over the Yauza, part of Moscow's first 18th-century water supply.
3 routes
🌳 Yauza Valley in Rostokino
A broad green floodplain of the Yauza with walking and cycling paths, little bridges and a view of the old aqueduct.
2 routes
🌳 Losiny Ostrov, Yauza Alley
A forest alley in the national park: mixed forest, boggy lowlands and a quiet quite unlike the city.
1 route
🚶 Tsvetnoy Boulevard
A short boulevard with a small park and a fountain between the Garden Ring and Trubnaya Square; the circus and the Central Market are…
3 routes
✨ Nikulin Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard
Moscow's oldest circus, operating since 1880: a classic program with acrobats, clowns and trained animals.
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🚶 Novy Arbat
A wide 1960s avenue with "book" high-rises, the Oktyabr cinema and the old Church of St Simeon the Stylite.
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🏛 House of the Government (the "White House")
A white building with a coat of arms on its tower (the clock was removed from it in 1994), built in 1972–1981 on Krasnopresnenskaya…
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🏛 Gorbaty Bridge (Hunchback Bridge)
A small stone bridge over the buried Presnya River, one of the oldest in Moscow, a stone's throw from the White House.
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🌳 Krasnaya Presnya Park
✨ Skazka Children's Park
A year-round amusement park in Krylatskoye: rides for toddlers and teens, a roller coaster and a Ferris wheel.
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🏛 Krylatskoye Rowing Canal
A canal over 2 km long with grandstands, built in 1973; rowers train on it, and running paths run alongside.
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🌅 Krylatskiye Hills
High grassy hills above the Moskva River: a nature park with an Olympic cycling track, springs and meadow paths.
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🏛 Pashkov House
A snow-white Neoclassical manor of 1784–1786 with a belvedere; today the building belongs to the Russian State Library.
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🚶 Znamenka Street
A quiet old street from Borovitskaya Square to the Arbat Gate: mansions of the 18th–19th centuries and Defense Ministry buildings.
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🖼 Shchusev Museum of Architecture
An 18th-century Neoclassical Talyzin estate that holds drawings, models and fragments of Moscow's lost buildings.
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🖼 Fersman Mineralogical Museum
One of the world's largest mineralogical museums, in the former riding hall of an estate in Neskuchny Garden, with about 135,000 specimens.
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✨ Observatory in Gorky Park
A people's observatory from 1929: telescope viewings from spring to the end of September, in the evenings, by tickets from the park's…
🖼 MMOMA on Petrovka
The Neoclassical mansion of the merchant Gubin by Matvey Kazakov, the main venue of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art.
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🏛 Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in Krylatskoye
A small 19th-century brick church on top of a hill with a panorama of the Moskva River floodplain and Strogino.
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🖼 Dutch House in Kuskovo
A brick house of 1749 with a stepped gable, tiles inside and its own little pond, a corner of Holland in the Sheremetev estate.
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🏛 Hermitage Pavilion in Kuskovo
An elegant two-story Baroque pavilion of the 1760s, where the alleys of the French park converge like rays.
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🖼 Paustovsky Literary Museum Center
An 18th-century wooden house in the Kuzminki estate; the exhibition is laid out as the writer's journey: city, sea, forest, world and home.
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✨ Children's Zoo at the Moscow Zoo
A separate zone of the zoo for little ones with fairy-tale buildings, where you can see the animals up close.
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🖼 Cryptography Museum
Russia's first cryptography museum, in the building of the former "Marfino sharashka" written about by Solzhenitsyn.
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🖼 Moscow Transport Museum in the Melnikov Garage
Opened in September 2026 in the restored Melnikov Garage on Novoryazanskaya (Shukhov may have been involved in the design of the metal…
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✨ Sandunovsky Baths (Sanduny)
Baths of 1896 with palatial interiors, the main bathhouse of Moscow.
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✨ GUM Ice Rink on Red Square
A seasonal rink by the walls of GUM, usually open from early December to 1 March, with one-hour sessions until late evening.
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🏛 Yaroslavsky Station
Shekhtel's fairy-tale station of 1904 in the Neo-Russian style with a high roof and majolica, the starting point of the Trans-Siberian…
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🏛 Trinity Lavra of St Sergius
The main monastery of the Russian Church, founded in the 14th century: white walls, blue and gold domes and an 88 m bell tower.
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🏛 Church of St Paraskeva Pyatnitsa and the Pyatnitsky Well
A small church ensemble at the foot of the Lavra; pilgrims come to the well under the chapel for water.
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🌳 Kelarsky Pond
An old monastery pond under the Lavra's walls with a landscaped bank, a path and benches.
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🖼 Bartram Toy Museum
A museum founded by the artist Nikolai Bartram in 1918: tens of thousands of toys from Russia and other countries.
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🏛 Krasnogorskaya Square and Chapel
A spacious square in front of the walls and Holy Gates of the Lavra, with a small chapel on a rise.
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🌅 Blinnaya Gora Viewpoint
A hill opposite the Lavra with an equipped viewing platform, from which the whole monastery can be seen above the town.
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🏛 Rizhskaya MCD-2 Platform
A platform by Rizhsky Station, a small 1901 building in the Neo-Russian style with turrets and patterned brickwork.
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🏛 Gate Church of the Entry into Jerusalem
A late-17th-century church above the monastery's main gate, with ornate brick and tile decoration.
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🏛 New Jerusalem Monastery and Resurrection Cathedral
Patriarch Nikon's 17th-century monastery behind white walls with towers, on a hill above the Istra River.
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🏛 Refectory Chambers and Church of the Nativity of Christ
Late-17th-century refectory chambers with the adjoining Church of the Nativity of Christ (1686–1692) inside the monastery walls.
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🖼 New Jerusalem Museum
A large modern museum building at the foot of the monastery with collections of icons, paintings, porcelain and weapons.
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🌳 Gethsemane Garden and Wooden Architecture Museum
A small open-air museum: wooden izbas, a windmill and chapels brought from villages.
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🏛 Tushinskaya metro, buses to Arkhangelskoye
A transfer hub on Volokolamskoye Highway: a metro station, an MCD-2 platform and bus stops nearby.
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🏛 Church of the Archangel Michael and the Holy Gates
A small whitewashed church with tiers of kokoshniks above the slope to the Moskva River, built before the palace.
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🏛 Colonnade Mausoleum Temple
A white rotunda-colonnade of the 1910s, conceived as a family mausoleum, at the edge of the park above the river.
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🖼 Grand Palace of the Arkhangelskoye Estate
A late-18th-century Neoclassical palace with a belvedere and colonnade, built for the Golitsyns and later the Yusupovs.
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🏛 Kapriz Palace and the Tea House
The small one-story Kapriz palace and the neighboring Tea House pavilion, surrounded by a formal garden in the western part of the park.
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🏛 Temple-Monument to Catherine II
A small Empire-style temple pavilion put up by Yusupov in 1819 in the depths of the park.
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🏛 Gonzaga Theater
A wooden theater of 1818, modest outside, with Pietro Gonzaga's original scenery and part of the old stage machinery preserved.
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🏛 Kazansky Station
Shchusev's station with a tower modeled on Kazan's Syuyumbike, built from 1913 to 1940.
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🖼 Kolomna Pastila Museum
A museum in an old merchant house where the forgotten recipe for Kolomna apple pastila (a fruit confection) was revived.
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🖼 Kalachnaya Museum
A museum-bakery in a stone mansion of the mid-19th century: it tells the story of the Kolomna kalach (a traditional bun) and bakes it in an…
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🏛 Pyatnitsky Gate of the Kolomna Kremlin
A mighty 16th-century red-brick gate tower, the main ceremonial entrance to the Kolomna Kremlin.
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🏛 Assumption Cathedral and Cathedral Square of Kolomna
A white five-domed cathedral of the 1670s surrounded by old merchant houses and the kremlin's churches.
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🏛 Novo-Golutvin Monastery
A working convent behind a brick wall with 17th–18th-century buildings.
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🏛 Brusensky Monastery
A small convent founded in 1552 in honor of the capture of Kazan.
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🏛 Marinkina (Kolomenskaya) Tower
A round (twenty-sided) 16th-century tower with loopholes, one of the seven surviving towers of the kremlin.
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🏛 Rogozhskaya Sloboda: Intercession Cathedral and Bell Tower
An Old Believer ensemble with the Neoclassical Intercession Cathedral and a tall white bell tower of the early 20th century.
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🏛 Church of St Martin the Confessor on Alekseevskaya
A large Neoclassical church of the 1790s with a massive dome and bell tower, built with funds from the merchant Zhigarev.
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🏛 Moscow Central Post Office
A 1912 building on Myasnitskaya, Moscow's main post office; under restoration since 2020, so you can't go inside now (work was planned to…
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🏛 Menshikov Tower (Church of the Archangel Gabriel)
A church built for Menshikov higher than the Ivan the Great Bell Tower; its tall spire burned from lightning in 1723.
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🏛 Church of St Nikita the Great Martyr on Staraya Basmannaya
A tall church with a bell tower, to a design attributed to Dmitry Ukhtomsky, a model of Elizabethan Baroque.
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🌳 Bauman Garden
A small green garden with a summer stage, a playground and shady paths.
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🖼 Muravyov-Apostol House Museum
A Neoclassical estate restored by the family's descendants, with memorial items and documents of the Decembrists.
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🏛 Gastronom No. 1 in GUM
A 24-hour delicatessen in the Soviet spirit, with delicacies and nostalgic products.
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🏛 TsUM (formerly Muir & Mirrielees)
A Gothic building with spires and huge windows, Moscow's first department store, built to a design by Klein.
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🏛 Petrovsky Passage
A shopping arcade of 1906 with two tiers of shops along a long gallery between Petrovka and Neglinnaya.
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🏛 Tsvetnoy Department Store
A modern multi-story department store with a glass facade, opened in 2010 by Tsvetnoy Boulevard.
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🏛 Maly Theatre
A classic building of the 1820s on Teatralnaya Square next to the Bolshoi, where Ostrovsky and the Russian classics are staged.
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🖼 MKhAT Museum
A museum at the theater showing the dressing rooms of Stanislavsky and Yefremov and Nemirovich-Danchenko's study.
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🖼 Yermolova House Museum (branch of the Bakhrushin Museum)
A mansion on Tverskoy Boulevard where the actress spent the last decades of her life; her apartment and drawing rooms are preserved.
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🏛 Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre (MKhT)
A building rebuilt by Shekhtel in 1902 in the Art Nouveau spirit, the very theater with the seagull on its curtain.
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🌳 Skhodnensky Kovsh (Skhodnya Bowl)
A huge natural basin with steep wooded slopes, a nature reserve where the Skhodnya winds along the bottom.
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🏛 Brattsevo Estate
A Neoclassical estate of the 1810s, whose design is attributed to Voronikhin: the main house, the Milovid rotunda and a landscape park…
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🖼 Submarine B-396 Novosibirsky Komsomolets
A museum in a diesel submarine of 1980, about 90 m long, set on the shore of the Khimki Reservoir.
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🏛 Orlyonok Ekranoplan
A 1970s assault ekranoplan about 58 m long with a huge tail assembly, an open-air exhibit.
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🌳 Severnoye Tushino Park on the Khimki Reservoir
A big waterside park with bike paths, piers, playgrounds and museum military equipment.
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🏛 Elizavetino bathhouse ruins
The ruins of a small 18th-century stone building (early 1770s) in a ravine — what is left of an estate, long since overgrown by forest.
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🌳 Tsarevna-Lebed spring (Swan Princess)
A small landscaped spring in a shady wooded ravine, reached by a path.
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🌳 Ivankovo Ponds (Ivankovskiye Prudy)
Ponds on the site of the former village of Ivankovo, surrounded by old trees and meadow banks.
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🏛 Church of the Intercession in Pokrovskoye-Streshnevo
A small white church with an 18th–19th-century bell tower at the edge of the estate park.
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🏛 Pokrovskoye-Streshnevo estate main house
A pseudo-Gothic house rebuilt in the late 19th century, surrounded by an old park with ponds.
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🌳 Strogino backwater and beach (Stroginsky Zaton)
A wide bay of the Moskva River with sandy beaches, piers and a walking embankment.
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🏛 Trinity Church in Troitse-Lykovo
A church of 1698–1703 built by Martemyan Naryshkin, with rich white-stone carved decoration.
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🏛 Dormition Church in Troitse-Lykovo
A small old church with a bell tower next to the Trinity Church, on the steep river bank.
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🏛 Church of the Merciful Saviour in Mitino
An 1886 church from the former village of Spas by Trikotazhnaya station — one of the few old buildings among the new housing blocks of…
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🌳 Mitino Landscape Park
A park on former fields around Penyaginsky Pond with boulevards, an amphitheater and viewpoint hills.
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🌳 Penyaginsky Pond
A large pond in the middle of the park with a path around it and gentle green banks.
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🏛 Church of Saints Constantine and Helena in Mitino
A seven-domed tented church 54 meters high with mosaic domes, completed in 2021.
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🌳 Mazilovsky Pond
A small landscaped pond with a path along the shore and benches in the shade of trees.
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🏛 Kuntsevo estate (Naryshkins' — Soldatyonkov's)
A late 19th-century main house on a high bank, surrounded by an old park with ravines and centuries-old trees.
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🌅 Kuntsevo hillfort (Kuntsevskoye Gorodishche)
A cape overgrown with old forest, with the remains of a settlement of the Dyakovo culture of the early Iron Age.
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🌳 Holy spring of St Seraphim of Sarov
A revered spring at the foot of a slope, where people from nearby districts come for water.
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🏛 Ho Chi Minh Monument
A 1990 monument: a figure of the Vietnamese leader against a large disc with a relief, on a high pedestal.
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🚶 The first khrushchyovka and the 9th experimental block
A late-1950s block where the first prefab panel five-story buildings were tried out: building No. 16 is considered Moscow's first…
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🌳 Akademichesky Park
A small boulevard park with walking paths, playgrounds and trees along residential blocks.
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🏛 Church of the Archangel Michael in Troparyovo
A red-brick church of the 1690s in the Naryshkin Baroque style with white carved details.
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🌳 Troparyovo Pond
A small pond next to an old church, surrounded by willows and a walking path.
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🌳 Troparyovo forest park, eco trail
Part of the Troparyovsky nature reserve: an old mixed forest with oaks and birches, streams and ponds.
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🏛 CEMI RAS (the "house with an ear")
An institute by the architect Leonid Pavlov; above the entrance is a concrete Möbius strip with a 1976 mosaic.
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🏛 Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Vorontsovo
A white mid-18th-century church with Baroque decoration and a bell tower at the entrance to the former Vorontsovo estate.
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🌳 Vorontsovo Park (Vorontsovo estate)
The former estate of the Vorontsovs and Repnins, where a balloon was secretly built in 1812 to use against the French.
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🏛 "Heavenly Gates" of the Uzkoye estate
One of the entrances to the old Uzkoye estate: from here an alley leads through the park to the main house and the 18th-century cascade…
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🏛 Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in Uzkoye
A whitewashed 1690s church in the Naryshkin Baroque spirit at the estate where the philosopher Vladimir Solovyov died in 1900.
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🏛 Yasenevo estate
The old Lopukhin estate on the edge of Bitsevsky Forest: a main house with two wings, and next to it the 18th-century Church of Saints…
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🌳 Bitsevsky Forest eco center
An environmental education center with animal enclosures and a mini-farm at the edge of the nature park.
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🏛 Trinity Church in Troitskoye-Golenishchevo
A five-domed mid-17th-century church — all that remains of the country estate of the Moscow patriarchs.
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🏛 Stalin's Blizhnyaya Dacha (closed site)
A two-story house of 1934 by the architect Merzhanov, where Stalin lived and where he died in 1953. A restricted Federal Protective Service…
🌳 Matveyevsky Forest (Matveevsky Les)
A patch of old forest with oaks and lindens on steep slopes among residential blocks.
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🌳 Setun River Valley nature reserve
A long nature reserve in the river valley: meadows, ravines, springs and patches of old forest.
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🏛 The "Lying Skyscraper" (NICEVT building)
The building of the Scientific Center of Electronic Computing, almost 736 m long: a design by Vsevolod Voskresensky, construction began in…
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🏛 Vyatichi burial mounds in Bitsevsky Forest
A burial-mound cemetery of the 11th–13th centuries — low mounds under pines, traces of the Slavic Vyatichi.
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🏛 Experimental district Severnoye Chertanovo
A "district of the future" conceived in the 1970s: tall blocks on a shared podium, cars go into underground roads and garages, and the…
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🌳 Bolshoy Chertanovsky Pond
A large pond in a residential area with a landscaped shore, paths and playgrounds.
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🌳 Yuzhnoye Butovo Landscape Park
The largest park outside the MKAD ring road: a valley with a cascade of ponds, little bridges and a separate children's park.
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🏛 Butovo firing range and the Church of the New Martyrs
A site of mass executions in 1937–1938: more than 20,000 names on the steles of the Garden of Memory, with the Church of the New Martyrs…
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🏛 Moskvin estate (Usadba Moskvinykh)
The oldest civic building in Butovo: of the dacha estate from the turn of the 19th–20th century, the main house (now residential), part of…
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🌳 Brateyevskaya Poyma Park (Brateyevo Floodplain)
A large park in the Moskva River floodplain with an embankment, meadows, and sports grounds and playgrounds.
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🌳 Brateyevo Cascade Park
A 38-hectare park descending to the Moskva River in terraces; in the center is a bay on the site of an old sand quarry.
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🌳 Borisovsky Pond
A huge 17th-century pond — the former village of Borisovo of Boris Godunov, now with embankments and beaches.
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🏛 Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Borisovo
The old village church of the former village of Borisovo: a stone church known since the 18th century, essentially rebuilt in the early…
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🏛 Church of St Euphrosyne of Moscow in Kotlovka
A church in the style of the 14th century (built in the 2000s, consecrated in 2017) on the site of the former princely estate of Kotly…
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🌳 Kotlovka River Valley Park
The Kotlovka river in an open channel between steep slopes, with a wooden boardwalk along the water.
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✨ Kant ski slope
The "Moscow Alps": a slope on soil heaped up in the 1980s during metro construction — skiing right in the city.
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🏛 "Spanish Houses" on Varshavka
Massive Stalin-era buildings by Nakhimovsky Prospekt; according to a city legend, Spanish communists were housed in them.
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🏛 Varshavka Gallery mosaics in the archways
Since 2015 the artist Marat Nasibullov has been decorating archways of buildings on Varshavka with mosaic panels: lizards, a beehive, "The…
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🏛 Kuryanovo settlement (Posyolok Kuryanovo)
A quiet 1950s settlement for aeration station workers: low-rise houses and green courtyards in a bend of the Moskva River.
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🏛 Nikolo-Perervinsky Monastery
A monastery on a former headland by the Moskva River: the huge early-20th-century Iveron Cathedral, the St Nicholas church and a seminary.
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🖼 Lyublino Estate Museum (Durasov Palace)
An 1801 palace with an unusual plan — a circle from which four wings extend; inside are painted ceilings and 19th-century costumes.
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🌳 Lyublinsky Pond
A large estate pond in front of the Durasov Palace — a round building with wings radiating in a cross.
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🌳 Feniks Park (Phoenix)
A fairy-tale garden inspired by Bilibin's illustrations: mature trees, flower beds and dry stone riverbeds.
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🏛 Church of the Life-Giving Spring Icon by Holy Lake
A small church right on the shore of Holy Lake, about which there is a legend of a church that sank underwater; a religious procession…
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🌳 Holy Lake (Svyatoe Ozero)
The smallest of the three Kosino lakes — round and considered to be of sinkhole origin; its water is noticeably colder than in the…
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🏛 Kosino church complex on White Lake
Three churches on the shore of White Lake: Dormition, the stone St Nicholas and the wooden St Tikhon; the Dormition church holds the…
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🏛 Kosino Children's Sea Club
A yacht club on White Lake founded in 1987; the buildings are styled after old Dutch houses.
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🌳 Black Lake (Chornoye Ozero)
A small glacial lake surrounded by sphagnum bogs and pines — a natural monument.
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🏛 Church of the Sign in Perovo
An early-18th-century church (construction finished around 1708) in the Golitsyn Baroque style; according to legend, Elizabeth Petrovna and…
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🌳 Perovsky Park
An old neighborhood park with a pond, alleys, a summer stage and playgrounds.
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🖼 Vadim Sidur Museum
A branch of MMOMA: sculpture and graphics by Vadim Sidur, a war veteran and one of the main sculptors of Soviet unofficial art.
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🌳 Terletsky forest park: oak grove and ponds
A cascade of five ponds on the Chyorny Stream and a relict oak grove where some oaks are over 300 years old.
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🖼 Dacha Museum and Exhibition Center (Museum of Russian Lubok and Naive Art)
The Dacha museum and exhibition center — the exhibition of the Museum of Russian Lubok and Naive Art in a stone Art Nouveau dacha of the…
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🏛 Church of Saints Zosima and Savvaty in Golyanovo
A stone church of 1842 in the former village of Golyanovo, on the site of a 17th-century wooden church; in Soviet times it housed…
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🌳 Golyanovsky Pond
A large pond in a residential area with a well-kept shore, benches and willows along the edges.
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🌳 Babayevsky Pond
A pond at the edge of Losiny Ostrov on the site of old brick factory quarries; forest clearings begin here.
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🌳 Lilac Garden (Sirenevy Sad)
A garden with hundreds of lilac bushes, many varieties bred by Leonid Kolesnikov, including "Beauty of Moscow".
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🏛 Church of the "Assuage My Sorrows" Icon in Maryino
A church of 1999–2001 by the architect A. N. Obolensky — a large new church in the spirit of old Moscow architecture, rare for a…
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🌅 Embankment by Brateyevo Bridge
The wide embankment of the 850th Anniversary Park with a bike path, a beach area and a view of the Brateyevo Bridge and the Moskva River.
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🚶 Budyonovsky settlement (Budyonovsky Posyolok)
A block of red-brick houses of 1927–1929 for Red Army commanders (architect M. Motylev and colleagues): the curved street and courtyards of…
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🏛 Former Rodina cinema
A post-constructivist landmark of the 1930s on Semyonovskaya Square; the cinema has been closed since 2020, and the building was restored…
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🏛 Iofan's buildings on Shcherbakovskaya
Four 16-story buildings of 1962–1975 — a late work of Boris Iofan, architect of the House on the Embankment.
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🏛 Church of St Demetrius of Thessalonica in Blagusha
A brick church in the Russian style, built in 1909–1911 to a design by Nikolay Orlov.
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🏛 Main Computing Center of the USSR Central Statistical Office
The computing center of the USSR statistical office — a landmark of Soviet modernism.
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🌳 Round Pond in Izmailovsky Park
An almost perfectly round pond from which the alleys of the old forest park radiate like rays.
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🏛 Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Sviblovo
An early-18th-century Baroque church built under Kirill Naryshkin for the Sviblovo estate.
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🏛 Sviblovo estate
A small 18th-century estate with the Baroque Trinity church of 1708 and a main house on a slope.
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🏛 Church of the Intercession of the Mother of God in Medvedkovo
A tented church of 1634–1635 on the former estate of Prince Dmitry Pozharsky, on the Yauza bank at the mouth of the Chermyanka.
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🌳 Singing Field in Yauza Park (Pevcheskoye Pole)
A spacious meadow at the edge of the park with a stage for open-air concerts and festivals.
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🏛 Altufyevo estate and the Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
A main house with a wooden mezzanine and a Baroque church of 1760–1763 above a pond — a former village known since 1585.
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🌳 Lianozovsky Park
A compact neighborhood park with a pond, playgrounds and alleys.
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🖼 Lianozov Mansion (K. Vasiliev Museum of Slavic Culture)
An 1903 mansion of the Lianozov oil-industrialist family — almost all that is left of the dacha village; inside are paintings by Konstantin…
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🏛 Lianozovo station
A station on the Savyolovsky line and MCD-1 with a transfer to the metro station of the same name.
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🏛 Grachyovka estate
An eclectic late-19th-century palace with caryatids and lions — according to legend, a copy of the casino in Monte Carlo; under restoration…
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🏛 Church of the Sign of the Mother of God in Khovrino
An estate church of 1868–1871 designed by Mikhail Bykovsky.
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🌳 Levoberezhny Park and the beach on Khimki Reservoir
A park on the reservoir's shore with a city beach, wooden decks along the water and sports grounds.
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🌳 Babushkinsky Park
A small neighborhood park with walking alleys, sports grounds and lawns.
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🏛 Losinoostrovskaya station
A station on the Yaroslavl line by the former dacha village that grew into the town of Babushkin.
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🏛 Church of Saints Adrian and Natalia in Babushkin
A Neo-Russian church of 1914–1916 that never closed, even in Soviet times.
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🌳 Losiny Ostrov: Russky Byt eco center (Russian Way of Life)
The national park's environmental education center with log buildings and objects of peasant life.
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🌳 Tsitsin Main Botanical Garden, main entrance at Vladykino
The entrance to one of Europe's largest botanical gardens — more than 300 hectares with an arboretum, a greenhouse and ponds.
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🏛 Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God in Vladykino
The church of the former village of Vladykino, known since the 17th century; according to tradition, Peter I visited here in 1690.
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🌳 Otrada Park (Likhoborka valley)
The green Likhoborka valley in Otradnoye — a park landscaped in 2005–2006: paths, gazebos and wooden bridges over a small river.
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🏛 Complex of traditional religions in Otradnoye
An Orthodox church of St Nicholas, the Yardam mosque and the Darkei Shalom synagogue stand in one block.
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✨ Salyut playground in Gorky Park
A big themed children's playground by Pioneer Pond with separate zones for different ages.
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✨ "Cat" kids' space by Golitsyn Pond
A giant cat 17×22 m and 4 m high made of metal, concrete and rubber that you can climb on, surrounded by lit trampolines, triple swings and…
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✨ City Farm at VDNKh
A city farm at VDNKh with farm animals and poultry, pens and workshops for kids.
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✨ Neftegrad playground at VDNKh (Oil City)
A playground shaped like an oil refinery, with derricks and pipes: slides, mazes, trampolines and interactive panels.
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✨ Obraztsov Puppet Theatre and the animal clock
The country's main puppet theater on the Garden Ring, with a famous fairy-tale clock on its facade and a puppet museum.
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✨ Durov Animal Theatre (Grandpa Durov's Corner)
An animal theater founded by the trainer Vladimir Durov in 1912, with a small museum of the family's history.
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🌳 Big Vorontsovo Pond and Duck Island
The biggest of Vorontsovo's estate ponds, surrounded by old trees.
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✨ Playground by the Vorontsovo estate
A spacious playground with slides, swings and ropes next to the park's main alley.
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🖼 RoboStation exhibition at VDNKh
An interactive exhibition in VDNKh Pavilion No. 2: dozens of robots from around the world that you can play with.
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✨ Orion amusement park at VDNKh
An amusement park at VDNKh with carousels for little ones and bolder rides for older kids.
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🌅 Sun of Moscow Ferris wheel
A 140 m Ferris wheel — the biggest in Europe, with a panorama of VDNKh and the Ostankino Tower.
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🖼 Atom museum at VDNKh
A museum of nuclear power in a glass-and-concrete pavilion: real installations and plenty of interactive exhibits.
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🏛 Vostok launch vehicle at VDNKh
A full-size model of the rocket that put Gagarin into space, by the Cosmos pavilion.
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🖼 Special Purpose Garage Museum at VDNKh
A museum at the president's garage: government cars of the 20th–21st centuries, from the first Soviet ones to modern ones.
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✨ PandaPark rope park in Sokolniki
A rope town among the trees with suspension bridges, zip lines and courses of different heights.
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🌳 Camping picnic area in Sokolniki
A forest glade deep in Sokolniki with wooden gazebos and picnic tables.
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🌳 Catherine Park (Ekaterininsky Park)
The former garden of the Catherine Institute for Noble Maidens, with a big pond and old alleys. Closed for a full renovation since 13…
🌅 Luzhkov Bridge and the “Love Trees”
A pedestrian bridge over the Vodootvodny Canal with metal trees for “wedding” padlocks.
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🏛 Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Kadashi
A Naryshkin-baroque church of 1687–1695 with five domes, white-stone ornament and a slender bell tower.
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🌅 Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge
A 1938 bridge over the Moskva River with views of the Kremlin, Red Square and Zamoskvorechye.
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🌳 Hermitage Garden
An old garden with theatres and a summer stage, a place where Muscovites have relaxed since the late 19th century.
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🌳 Aquarium Garden by the Mossovet Theatre
A cosy historic garden of the late 19th century where summer plays and concerts were once staged.
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🌳 Devichye Pole Square
A long square among the old clinics of the medical campus, with a monument to Leo Tolstoy.
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🌳 Children's Park “Trubetskoy Estate in Khamovniki”
The park of the former Trubetskoy estate with a pond and a main house: the authentic wooden house burned down in 2001, and a concrete copy…
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✨ Playground on the Main Alley of Fili Park
A playground by the Main Alley with play structures for toddlers and older kids.
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✨ Vegas Kashirskoye Mall
A huge shopping and entertainment centre by the MKAD ring road with themed galleries, a cinema and restaurants.
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✨ TeikaBoom Family Park in Vegas Kashirskoye
Ksenia Borodina's 5,500 m² activity park with play zones, a family café and party rooms.
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✨ Children's Playground in Ostankino Park
Several playgrounds under old trees next to the pond and the Ostankino estate.
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✨ Playgrounds by Lyublino Pond
A group of playgrounds by the big pond opposite the Durasov Palace in the Lyublino estate.
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✨ Playground by the Round Pond in Izmailovo Park
A playground in the wooded part of Izmailovo Park, right next to the Round Pond.
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🏛 Savyolovsky Railway Station
The terminus of the Savyolovo line, with an early 20th-century facade rebuilt in the 1990s.
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🏛 Leningradsky Railway Station
Moscow's oldest station, opened in 1851 and the twin of Moskovsky Station in St Petersburg.
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🖼 Abramtsevo Museum-Reserve: the Main Manor House
The estate of the Aksakovs, later of Savva Mamontov: Gogol, Turgenev, Repin, Serov and Vrubel were guests here, and “Girl with Peaches” was…
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🖼 Studio-Workshop at Abramtsevo
An 1873 outbuilding where the Abramtsevo tile and carpentry crafts began; inside is now a permanent exhibition of majolica and Vrubel's…
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🏛 Church of the Saviour Not Made by Hands at Abramtsevo
A small church in the spirit of old Novgorod, designed by Vasnetsov and Polenov; Repin, Vasnetsov, Polenov and Vrubel took part in…
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🏛 Hut on Chicken Legs (Izbushka na Kurinykh Nozhkakh)
A log gazebo for children's games designed by Viktor Vasnetsov; nearby is Vrubel's bench with majolica.
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🏛 Khotkovo Intercession Convent (Pokrovsky Khotkov Monastery)
A 14th-century convent where the parents of Sergius of Radonezh, Saints Cyril and Maria, are buried; the huge early 20th-century St…
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🖼 Muranovo Museum-Estate named after F. I. Tyutchev: Main House
The estate of Baratynsky and the Tyutchevs, where since 1920 a museum has kept the authentic interiors: the two poets' study, the drawing…
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🏛 Church of the Saviour Not Made by Hands in Muranovo
The Tyutchev family church of 1878 with a bell tower, where family members were married and baptised; still active.
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🌳 Muranovo Park and Pond
Lime and birch alleys, a larch planted under Baratynsky, and a pond with a view of the meadows of the Talitsa valley.
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🏛 Dmitrov Kremlin and the Earthen Rampart
12th-century earthen ramparts enclosing the Dormition Cathedral, the administrative buildings and the Church of St Elizabeth; a path runs…
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🏛 Dormition Cathedral of Dmitrov
A white-stone cathedral of the early 16th century with a carved iconostasis by Armoury Chamber masters (late 17th century), the main church…
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🖼 Dmitrov Kremlin Museum-Reserve: Museum and Exhibition Complex
The museum's main exhibition: the history of Dmitrov from Yuri Dolgoruky to the building of the Moscow Canal.
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🚶 Kropotkinskaya Street
An old merchants' street at the foot of the rampart: the Novoselov and Klyatov houses, bronze townspeople and the house where the anarchist…
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🏛 Boris and Gleb Monastery (Borisoglebsky Monastery)
A 15th-century monastery on the eastern edge of the old centre: white walls with towers and the Cathedral of Boris and Gleb.
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🏛 Monument to the Builders of the Moscow Canal
A monument to the canal builders: it was dug in 1932–1937 by prisoners of Dmitlag, whose administration was in Dmitrov.
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🌅 Rogachevsky Bridge over the Moscow Canal
A bridge over the Moscow Canal with an embankment along the water: from here you can watch motor ships and barges pass through the canal.
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🖼 Klin Courtyard Christmas Tree Toy Museum (Klinskoe Podvorye)
A museum at the Yolochka factory: 12 halls of toys from Peter the Great's time to today, a glassblowing shop and a painting shop; you can…
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🏛 Sovetskaya Square and the Trinity Cathedral
The centre of old Klin on Leningradskoye Highway: the trading arcades, the Trinity Cathedral and the “Shop Under the Clock”.
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🌳 Sestroretsky Park
A city park on the way from the centre to Tchaikovsky's house, with playgrounds.
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🖼 Tchaikovsky House-Museum
The house where Tchaikovsky spent his last year and a half and wrote the Sixth Symphony: the rooms are kept as in his time, and his Becker…
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🏛 Locomotive 9P at Bolshaya Volga Station
A 9P shunting locomotive on a plinth by the old Bolshaya Volga station building, next to the start of the Moscow Canal.
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🌅 Bolshoy Volzhsky Lighthouse
A lighthouse on the cape between the Volga, the Ivankovo Reservoir and the Moscow Canal; you can't get up to the lighthouse itself, but…
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🏛 Lenin Monument at Lock No. 1
A 37-metre Lenin by Merkurov (1937) at the entrance to the Moscow Canal, one of the biggest in the world; opposite stood a matching…
🌅 Site of the Stalin Monument at the Canal Entrance
The cape at the entrance to the Moscow Canal where a 25-metre monument to Stalin stood from 1937 to 1962; now there is a plaque and a view…
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🏛 Nadia Léger's Mosaic Portraits on Vysotsky Alley
A gallery of mosaic portraits of “outstanding figures of the 20th century”, donated to the city by the artist Nadezhda Khodasevich-Léger.
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🚶 Mendeleev Embankment
A Volga promenade in the old “institute” part of Dubna, with a city beach and a view of the water under pines.
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🌳 Larch Alley in Serednikovo
An old alley of the estate park; the young Lermontov spent his summer holidays in Serednikovo in 1829–1832.
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🏛 Great White-Stone Bridge in Serednikovo
A white-stone bridge over a ravine in the estate park, between the cascading ponds.
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🏛 Church of Metropolitan Alexis in Serednikovo
The 18th-century estate church of the Stolypins with a bell tower, still active.
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🖼 Serednikovo Estate: Ceremonial Courtyard and House
The classicist estate of the Stolypins, where Lermontov's grandmother brought him for the holidays; later, under the Firsanovs, Chaliapin…
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🏛 Belorussky Railway Station
The Belarus-direction station: MCD-1 trains and suburban trains to Zvenigorod, Golitsyno, Kubinka, Mozhaysk and Borodino leave from here.
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🏛 Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery
A 14th-century monastery on Storozhi hill above the Moskva River, founded by a disciple of Sergius of Radonezh; at its centre is the…
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🏛 Skete and Cave of St Sabbas
The monastery's skete in a ravine below the monastery: the cave where St Sabbas prayed, a chapel and a holy spring.
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🏛 Zvenigorod Gorodok and the Dormition Cathedral
An ancient hillfort with the ramparts of the Zvenigorod kremlin above the Moskva River; the Dormition Cathedral on the Gorodok was built…
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🚶 Moskovskaya Street
The main street of old Zvenigorod with 19th-century merchant houses, coffee shops and small stores.
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🖼 Zvenigorod Manege
The main venue of the Zvenigorod Museum-Reserve with the exhibition “Zvenigorod. From Earth to Sky” and the museum ticket office.
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🖼 Zakharovo Estate
The estate of Pushkin's grandmother, where the poet spent summers as a child: a house recreated in 1999, 18th-century outbuildings, a pond…
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🌳 Pushkin Trail from Zakharovo to Vyazemy
About 4 km of dirt path through fields and groves, with little bridges over the Vyazyomka and Sharapovka rivers.
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🖼 Vyazemy Estate: the Golitsyn Palace
The Golitsyn palace of the late 18th century with a park and ponds; in 1812 first Kutuzov, and a day later Napoleon, stayed here.
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🏛 Church of the Transfiguration in Vyazemy and Nikolay Pushkin's Grave
A church of Godunov's time, late 16th century, with a belfry; the poet's younger brother Nikolay Pushkin is buried by its wall.
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🏛 Mozhaysk Kremlin and the New St Nicholas Cathedral
The hill of the ancient Mozhaysk kremlin with the neo-Gothic New St Nicholas Cathedral of the early 19th century; the church is active, and…
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🖼 Borodino Military History Museum-Reserve
The main exhibition about the 1812 battle in the centre of the Borodino Field, with Raevsky's Battery and the Main Monument nearby.
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🏛 Raevsky's Battery and the Main Monument
A mound-top height in the centre of the Russian position, fought over in the heaviest battles; on it stand the Main Monument to Russian…
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🏛 Bagration's (Semyonovskoye) Fleches
Earthworks of the left flank where Bagration was mortally wounded; regimental monuments stand all around.
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🏛 Spaso-Borodino Convent
A convent founded by General Tuchkov's widow on the spot where he fell; the house-museum of Abbess Maria tells the convent's story.
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🖼 Tank Museum in Kubinka
More than 350 armoured vehicles from 14 countries in pavilions and outdoors: Soviet heavy and light tanks, the five-turret T-35, the German…
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🏛 Main Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces
A huge khaki-coloured Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ, consecrated in 2020, with mosaics on military themes.
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🖼 Road of Memory Museum Complex
A gallery 1,418 steps long, one for each day of the war, with photographs, documents and installations; free admission.
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🖼 Field of Victory Open-Air Museum
An open-air area with Great Patriotic War equipment by the Main Cathedral; free admission.
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🌅 Bridge over the Moskva River at Ilyinskoye
A bridge with a view of the Moskva River bend and the Ilyinskoye church on the high bank.
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🏛 Church of Elijah the Prophet in Ilyinskoye
A baroque church of the 1730s at the former Romanov estate where Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich and Elizabeth Feodorovna lived; the estate…
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🖼 Museum of Motherhood and Infancy
A museum in the 1892 maternity-shelter building next to Elizabeth Feodorovna's former Ilyinskoye infirmary; created in 2023 by the…
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🖼 Vadim Zadorozhny Technical Museum
A private museum with more than a thousand exhibits: vintage cars, motorcycles, aircraft and military vehicles, Stalin's armoured ZIS-115…
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🏛 Kursky Railway Station
A big station with a glass modernist facade of the 1970s that encloses the old 19th-century building.
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🏛 Domodedovskaya Metro Station
A metro station of 1985 on Kashirskoye Highway, from where buses run to Gorki Leninskiye.
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🌳 Prioksko-Terrasny Reserve: Bison Nursery
A biosphere reserve by the Oka with the Central Bison Nursery: European bison and American bison in forest enclosures, the Nature Museum…
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🏛 Sobornaya Gora and the Trinity Cathedral
The hill above the Nara where the Serpukhov Kremlin stood: the Trinity Cathedral and remains of the white-stone fortress wall.
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🖼 Serpukhov History and Art Museum
The late 19th-century mansion of the Maraev merchants with a collection of Western European and Russian paintings, icons and graphic art.
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🏛 Vysotsky Monastery
A men's monastery founded in the late 14th century with the blessing of Sergius of Radonezh; the Conception Cathedral and the Intercession…
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🖼 A. P. Chekhov Melikhovo Museum-Reserve
The estate where Chekhov lived from 1892 to 1899: the main house, the outbuilding where “The Seagull” was written, the bathhouse, the…
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🖼 Lopasnya-Zachatyevskoye Estate
The Vasilchikov estate where the children of Pushkin and Natalya Goncharova spent long stretches; an exhibition about the Vasilchikov…
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🏛 Church of the Conception of St Anna (Anno-Zachatyevskaya Church)
A 17th-century Church of the Conception of St Anna at the Lopasnya-Zachatyevskoye estate; next to it is the family necropolis where…
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🖼 Museum “Lenin's Study and Apartment in the Kremlin”
Lenin's study and apartment, moved from the Kremlin to Gorki together with the original furnishings.
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🖼 Memorial Garage at Gorki Leninskiye
The estate's garage with Lenin's cars, the main exhibit being a half-track Rolls-Royce. Closed for reconstruction since 30 July 2026: the…
🖼 Gorki Museum-Estate
The estate's main house, rebuilt by Shekhtel for Zinaida Morozova; Lenin spent his last years here and died in January 1924.
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🖼 Peasant Life Museum in Gorki
An early 20th-century peasant hut with utensils, a stove and children's programmes about old-time life.
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🖼 Scientific and Cultural Centre “V. I. Lenin Museum”
The museum-reserve's main exhibition building; until 15 November 2026 it hosts the exhibition “The New Man” about the Soviet school.
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🖼 Ostafyevo Museum-Estate: the “Russian Parnassus”
The estate of the Princes Vyazemsky, where Karamzin wrote his “History of the Russian State” and where Pushkin, Zhukovsky, Gogol and…
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🌳 Ostafyevo Park: Big Pond and the “Temple of Apollo”
The estate's landscape park with lime alleys, the Big Pond, a humpback bridge, the “Temple of Apollo” gazebo and monuments to Pushkin…
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🏛 Church of the Sign in Dubrovitsy (Znamenskaya Church)
Prince Golitsyn's white-stone church of the turn of the 17th–18th centuries: a gilded crown instead of a dome, and facades covered with…
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🌅 Viewpoint on Park Kurgan in Dubrovitsy
A platform above the confluence of the Desna and Pakhra next to the Golitsyn manor house.
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🏛 Cathedral of Sts Peter and Paul in Tarusa
A cathedral on Tarusa's central square, a short walk from the bus station.
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🖼 Tsvetaev Family Museum in Tarusa
A museum about the Tsvetaev family's summers in Tarusa: Ivan Vladimirovich, Marina and Anastasia; a branch of the Kaluga United…
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🏛 Paustovsky's Grave
The grave of Konstantin Paustovsky on the high bank of the Taruska, one of the quietest places in town.
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🚶 Oka Embankment and the Paustovsky Monument
Tarusa's promenade by the pier with a monument to Paustovsky and a wide view of the Oka.
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🏛 Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Tarusa
A white church above the Oka on the eastern edge of old Tarusa.
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🏛 Marina Tsvetaeva's Stone
A boulder on the high bank of the Oka inscribed “Marina Tsvetaeva would like to lie here”, the fulfilment of her wish from the essay…
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🏛 Vostochny Railway Station (Cherkizovo)
A new station of 2021 by Cherkizovskaya metro with waiting rooms and cafés.
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🏛 Kotelniki Metro Station
The terminus of the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line, opened in 2015 beyond the MKAD ring road, in Kotelniki in the Moscow region.
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✨ Gzhel Porcelain Factory: Tours and Workshops
A working Gzhel porcelain factory with a museum of the craft and a brand store; an hour-long tour of the workshops and cobalt-painting…
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🖼 Saltykov House Museum and Exhibition Centre
A small private museum of the history of the Gzhel craft and the porcelain factory, with exhibitions of artists' works.
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✨ Gzhel Association in Turygino
One of the main Gzhel producers open to tourists: an exhibition, workshops, a brand store and a park with a Gzhel-style playground.
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🖼 Museum of the History of the Russian Headscarf and Shawl
Vladimir Shishenin's private collection: headscarves and shawls of the 18th–20th centuries, from Pavlovsky Posad block-printed ones to…
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✨ Pavlovo Posad Shawls Brand Store
The store of the Pavlovo Posad Shawl Manufactory by the factory: hundreds of colourways of scarves, shawls and men's mufflers at factory…
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🖼 Vyacheslav Tikhonov House-Museum
The house where Stirlitz of “Seventeen Moments of Spring” grew up: the actor's personal belongings, film stills and interactive halls.
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🖼 Pavlovsky Posad History and Art Museum
A town museum with a hall of Pavlovo Posad shawls, wood carving and the history of the merchant Posad.
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🏛 Intercession-Vasilyevsky Monastery (Pokrovsko-Vasilyevsky Monastery)
A monastery linked to the name of the local ascetic Vasily Gryaznov: the late 19th-century Intercession Cathedral and a quiet green…
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🏛 St Nicholas Ugreshsky Monastery
A monastery founded by Dmitry Donskoy in 1380: the 93-metre bell tower, the “Ugresha candle”, the Transfiguration Cathedral for 7,000…
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🌅 Viewpoint over the Belopeschany Quarry
A wooden platform above a former sand quarry turned into a lake with a beach and a wakeboard park.
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🏛 Space Conquerors Square and the Korolev and Gagarin Monument
A 2017 monument based on the famous photograph of Gagarin and Korolev; the sculptor worked out every fold of the clothing.
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🖼 Korolev History Museum, “Modern History of the City” Department
How the dacha settlement of Podlipki became the capital of cosmonautics: a space hall with models of rockets and spacecraft, a…
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🌳 Korolev Central City Park
A city park with rides and playgrounds for different ages.
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🏛 S. P. Korolev Monument on Korolev Avenue
A monument of 1988: the Chief Designer in swift motion, at the start of the avenue named after him.
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🏛 Bogolyubovo Monastery (Bogolyubsky Monastery)
A monastery on the site of Prince Andrey Bogolyubsky's residence: fragments of 12th-century chambers and a staircase tower survive.
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🏛 Church of the Intercession on the Nerl
A 12th-century white-stone church (traditionally dated to 1165) in the middle of a floodplain meadow, a UNESCO site and one of the…
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🏛 Golden Gate (Zolotye Vorota)
A 12th-century ceremonial city gate; under restoration in 2026, with the museum inside closed.
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🌳 Patriarch's Garden (Patriarshy Sad)
The city's oldest garden on the slope down to the Klyazma: terraces, fountains and views of the distant river meadows.
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🌅 Viewpoint on Georgievskaya Street
One of three viewpoints on pedestrian Georgievskaya Street, overlooking the Klyazma floodplain.
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🏛 Assumption Cathedral in Vladimir (Uspensky Sobor)
A cathedral from 1160 with frescoes by Andrei Rublev and Daniil Chorny; both a working church and a museum.
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🏛 Cathedral of St Demetrius (Dmitrievsky Sobor)
The court cathedral of Vsevolod the Big Nest (1190s), its walls covered in white-stone carving: beasts, griffins, King David.
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🏛 Vakhtangov Theatre
The main theater of the Arbat, in a 1940s building with a colonnade; at the entrance stands the gilded "Princess Turandot" fountain…
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🏛 Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior on Peski
An 18th-century church in a quiet side street off the Arbat, the very one Polenov painted in "Moscow Courtyard".
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🏛 Bulat Okudzhava Monument
A bronze Okudzhava steps out of an Arbat courtyard arch, a 2002 monument to the poet who sang about "my Arbat".
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🖼 Andrei Bely Memorial Apartment
The apartment where the Symbolist poet spent his childhood and youth, a branch of the Pushkin Museum in the building next to the Pushkin…
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🏛 Averky Kirillov Chambers
A 17th-century chamber house of a Duma clerk, with an ornate window frame and the Church of St Nicholas on Bersenevka: pre-Petrine Moscow…
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🚶 Presnenskaya Embankment
A pedestrian embankment at the foot of the Moscow City towers: glass, reflections in the river and a view of Dorogomilovo.
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🏛 Front Gate of the Sovereign's Court in Kolomenskoye
A 17th-century ceremonial gate with tented towers, through which people entered the tsar's court; inside are exhibitions of the…
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🖼 Peter the Great's Cabin in Kolomenskoye
A log "Peter the Great's cabin" moved to Kolomenskoye from Arkhangelsk in 1934; research suggests it is a reconstruction from the remains…
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🏛 Church of the Beheading of St John the Baptist in Dyakovo
A 16th-century five-pillar church on a hill beyond Golosov Ravine, by a widespread account the compositional predecessor of St Basil's…
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🌳 Dyakovo Apple Orchard
An old apple orchard on the hill by Dyakovo: it blooms in spring, and in autumn apples lie under the trees.
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🌳 Arch Alley in Sokolniki
An alley under metal arches wrapped in plants, the most photogenic spot between Fountain Square and the rose garden.
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🌳 Children's Play Town in Sokolniki
A big playground deep in the park: slides, swings and climbing frames for different ages.
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✨ Hare Meadow playground (Zayachya Polyana) in Kolomenskoye
A new 2026 playground based on a tale about hares: five play zones for kids from 1 to 14, a carrot-shaped canopy over the sandpit…
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🖼 Falcon Yard in Kolomenskoye
The yard of the tsar's falconers, renewed in 2026: an exhibition on falconry, birds of prey and flight shows.
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🚶 Tsarskaya Embankment and Kolomenskoye pier
Kolomenskoye's promenade, opened in 2025: 3.5 km along the Moskva River, a wooden deck over the water, swings with evening lighting and a…
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🏛 Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in Kolomenskoye
A working five-domed church from the mid-17th century with blue domes, built under Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich: it was a palace church, with a…
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🌳 Kazan Garden in Kolomenskoye
One of the three surviving historic apple orchards of Kolomenskoye; in 2026 the art objects "Apples in the Garden" and "Falcon with…
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🖼 Kolomenskoye Peasant's Homestead
A recreated yard of a well-off peasant of the late 19th century: a house with a brick undercroft and a village shop, a vegetable plot and…
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🏛 Cable-stayed bridge over Nagatinsky Zaton
A crescent-shaped cycling and pedestrian bridge across the Nagatinsky Zaton inlet — from the Nagatinsky Zaton station of the Big Circle…
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🏛 Church of St Spyridon of Trimythous in Nagatinsky Zaton
A new five-domed church in the spirit of Vladimir-Suzdal architecture by Nagatinskaya Embankment; the parish appeared in 2011, when a small…
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🚶 Nagatinskaya Embankment
Moscow's longest embankment — about 5.6 km along the river opposite the Nagatinskaya floodplain; in 2025 the pavements were widened, new…
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🌳 Zhuzha Park in the Zhuzha River floodplain
A 2023 landscape park in the valley of the little Zhuzha River, where the Bolshoy and Savkin ravines meet: paths and bridges along the…
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✨ Robber's Lair playground (Logovo Razboynika) in Zhuzha Park
A themed playground in the spirit of Russian wooden architecture for kids from 1 to 7: a castle with towers, suspension bridges, slides and…
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🏛 Water mill on the Zhuzha in Kolomenskoye
A log mill with a dam on the little Zhuzha River shortly before it joins the Moskva; in summer an exhibition on grinding grain is open…
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🏛 Southern River Terminal (Yuzhny Rechnoy Vokzal)
A Soviet-modernist river terminal on Nagatinskaya Embankment, reopened after reconstruction in 2023.
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🏛 Zachatievsky Monastery (Convent of the Conception)
A working convent in the lanes of Ostozhenka: white walls, a 17th-century gate church and a new cathedral built on the site of the…
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🚶 Prechistenskaya Embankment
The embankment between Krymsky Bridge and the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour with views of the Bolotny Island spit, the Peter the Great…
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🏛 Rozhdestvensky Monastery (Nativity Convent)
A convent at the foot of Rozhdestvensky Boulevard with a white-stone cathedral from the early 16th century.
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🚶 Sofiyskaya Embankment
An embankment directly opposite the Kremlin: across the river are the walls, towers, the Grand Kremlin Palace and cathedrals, all lit up in…
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🚶 Raushskaya Embankment
A quiet Zamoskvorechye embankment opposite Zaryadye: across the river are the Floating Bridge, St Basil's and the Kremlin towers, and…
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🌅 Bolshoy Ustyinsky Bridge
A 1938 arch bridge at the mouth of the Yauza: from it you see the Kotelnicheskaya skyscraper straight ahead and the Kremlin with Zaryadye…
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🚶 Pushkinskaya Embankment
A pedestrian two-tier embankment of Gorky Park and Neskuchny Garden: the lower tier right at the water, an avenue with lamps above.
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🏛 Central Pavilion of VDNKh
The main pavilion of the exhibition at the end of the Main Avenue — a multi-tiered building with a spire and a star on top.
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🖼 ZILART Museum and Exhibition Centre
A new contemporary art museum near Tyufeleva Roshcha, opened in December 2025: rotating exhibitions across several floors, open until late…
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🌅 Novoarbatsky Bridge
A wide bridge from Novy Arbat to Kutuzovsky Prospekt: from it you can see the White House, the Ukraina hotel and the Moscow City towers…
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🚶 Krymskaya Embankment
A pedestrian embankment between Muzeon and Krymsky Bridge: wavy paths, benches by the water and a view of the Moskva River and the…
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🖼 Vasnetsov House Museum
A wooden terem-style house that Viktor Vasnetsov built for himself: carved stoves, painted furniture and a studio under the roof with huge…
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🖼 Soyuzmultfilm Animation Museum
An interactive museum right at the studio that made Nu, pogodi! and Winnie-the-Pooh: the exhibition follows the stages of making a cartoon…
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🖼 Zurab Tsereteli Art Gallery
The Academy of Arts exhibition complex in an old estate on Prechistenka: halls with Tsereteli's portraits and enamels and a glass atrium…
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✨ Moscow Puppet Theatre
One of Moscow's oldest puppet theatres, a stone's throw from the Yelokhovo Cathedral: fairy tales for the smallest in the Small Hall and…
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🚶 Krutitskaya Embankment
An embankment under Krutitsy Hill, from Novospassky Bridge downstream; after the 2026 reconstruction, a wide pavement by the water and a…
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🚶 Simonovskaya Embankment
A new embankment by the RiverSky housing complex and the Torpedo stadium: the roadway is separated from the pedestrian zone, which runs…
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🏛 Torpedo Stadium named after Eduard Streltsov
Home stadium of Torpedo — the ZIL factory team — on the bank of the Moskva; the new section of Simonovskaya Embankment ends at it.
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🏛 Simonov Monastery: towers and wall
What remains of one of Moscow's main fortress-monasteries: the south wall with the Dulo, Kuznechnaya and Solevaya towers. The rest was…
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🏛 Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in Staroye Simonovo
A small white church from the early 16th century where, according to tradition, Peresvet and Oslyabya — the warrior monks and heroes of the…
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🏛 Novo-Alekseevsky Monastery
A monastery that "moved": in 1837 it was transferred here from Ostozhenka, when construction of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour began…
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🏛 Rusakov Club
Konstantin Melnikov's most recognisable workers' club: three concrete "teeth" of the auditorium loom over Stromynka. Now home to Roman…
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🏛 Mariinsky Hospital and the Dostoevsky monument
A neoclassical hospital for the poor, in whose wing Fyodor Dostoevsky was born in 1821; in the courtyard stands his famous stooped statue…
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🏛 Church of the Joy of All Who Sorrow (Nechayannaya Radost) in Maryina Roshcha
A parish church from the early 20th century, one of the few in Moscow that were not closed in the Soviet years.
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🌳 MMOMA × MR sculpture park in the Mod quarter
A new open-air park of contemporary sculpture in a residential quarter: eight works from Sidur to Sasha Frolova, open round the clock and…
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🏛 Shokin Square and MIET
The heart of the "Soviet Silicon Valley": the square in front of the Institute of Electronic Technology, named after the minister who made…
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🌳 Big City Pond and Victory Park
The green centre of old Zelenograd: a pond with a path along the shore and the 40th Anniversary of Victory Park between Tsentralny Prospekt…
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🖼 Zelenograd Museum in the Flute building (Fleyta)
A local-history museum of the satellite city in one of the longest residential buildings in the USSR: the story of the construction…
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🏛 Peredelkino platform
A MCD-4 station where the writers' village begins: this is where Pasternak took the train to Moscow.
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🏛 Peredelkino Cemetery
A village cemetery on a hill by the church where Pasternak, Chukovsky and Arseny Tarkovsky are buried.
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🖼 Boris Pasternak House Museum
The dacha where Pasternak spent his last twenty years, finished Doctor Zhivago and learned of the Nobel Prize: the rooms are kept as he…
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🏛 Korney Chukovsky House
The dacha where Chukovsky lived for more than thirty years and gathered children for his famous "bonfires". The house is closed for…
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🌳 Petrovsky Park
An old 19th-century dacha park around the Petrovsky Palace: avenues fan out from the palace, and the former out-of-town Moscow can still be…
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🏛 Petrovsky Travel Palace
Matvey Kazakov's red-brick "Gothic" palace on the Petersburg road — tsars rested here before entering Moscow, and in 1812 Napoleon…
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🚶 Tretyakovsky Proyezd
A short pedestrian passage behind a gate-arch in the style of an old fortress wall — from Teatralny Proyezd to Nikolskaya, with the shop…
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🖼 Museum of Oriental Art (Museum of the East)
The State Museum of the Art of the Peoples of the East in the Lunin estate: Japan, China, Iran, Central Asia, the Caucasus and a separate…
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✨ Khudozhestvenny Cinema
One of Moscow's oldest cinemas, on Arbatskaya Square: a building rebuilt by Fyodor Shekhtel in 1912–1913, with restored foyers and halls.
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🏛 Library of Foreign Literature (Inostranka)
"Inostranka" by the Yauza: open reading rooms, a bookshop and a courtyard with busts of writers and thinkers from many countries — you can…
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🖼 Museum of Russian Icons
A private museum in Goncharnaya Sloboda with one of the largest icon collections in the country — from Old Russian images to the 20th…
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🖼 Vysotsky House on Taganka
The Vladimir Vysotsky museum a stone's throw from the Taganka Theatre, where he played Hamlet: manuscripts, guitars, stage costumes and…
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🖼 Victory Museum on Poklonnaya Hill
The main museum of the Great Patriotic War: six large dioramas, the Hall of Glory with the names of the Heroes of the Soviet Union and the…
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🖼 Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center
A big interactive museum in Melnikov's Bakhmetevsky Garage: the history of Jews in Russia from the Pale of Settlement to today — with…
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🏛 Russian Army Theatre
A huge 1930s theatre built on a five-pointed star plan — a monument of Stalinist Empire style on Suvorovskaya Square.
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🏛 Dostoevskaya metro station
A 2010 station whose hall walls are decorated with black-and-white mosaics based on Dostoevsky's novels.
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🚶 Sivtsev Vrazhek Lane
A quiet Arbat lane following the bed of the vanished Sivka river: Art Nouveau apartment buildings, Empire mansions and 1930s Constructivist…
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🖼 Herzen House Museum
A wooden Empire-style mansion where Herzen spent his last Moscow years with his family: memorial rooms, manuscripts, portraits, period…
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🏛 Spaso House (Vtorov mansion)
A neoclassical mansion of the 1910s with a semi-rotunda and columns — the US ambassador's residence since 1933; we look from outside, from…
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🏛 Church of Sts Peter and Paul on Novaya Basmannaya
A rare Petrine Baroque church for Moscow — an "octagon on a quadrangle" with a tall bell tower, built under Peter I in the Kapitanskaya…
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🏛 VTB Arena — Dynamo Stadium
A new sports complex inside the bowl of the old Dynamo stadium: the historic east facade with its colonnade was preserved, and football and…
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🌳 Luzhkov Park (Sadovniki)
A big flat park along Andropov Avenue: wide asphalt paths, several playgrounds, a skatepark and the Riga Garden in the centre — convenient…
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🌳 Riga Garden in Sadovniki Park
A Latvian-style garden in the middle of Sadovniki: a spiral of paths, boulders, pines, sea-pebble paving and lamps like those in Old Riga.
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✨ Playground by the Riga Garden
A playground with rubber surfacing next to the Riga Garden: slides, swings and climbing frames for toddlers and preschoolers.
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🏛 Mikhalkovo Estate and Cultural Center
Count Panin's estate with red-brick "Gothic" gate towers of the 18th century, attributed to Bazhenov; in the wing is a cultural centre with…
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🌳 Golovinskiye Ponds
A cascade of estate ponds on the Golovinsky stream — the Large and Small Golovinsky with paths along the banks, gazebos and ducks.
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🏛 Bell tower of Kazan Golovino Monastery
All that is left of a convent in the Russian style: a tall brick bell tower among 1970s buildings on Kronshtadtsky Boulevard.
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🏛 Vvedenskoye (German) Cemetery
Lefortovo's old "non-Orthodox" cemetery on the hills of Vvedenskiye Gory: Gothic chapels, Art Nouveau gravestones, the graves of Dr Haass…
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🏛 Church of the Transfiguration on Preobrazhenskaya Square
The church of the former regimental settlement of the Preobrazhensky Regiment — demolished in 1964 and rebuilt to the old drawings in 2014.
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🏛 Preobrazhenskaya Old Believer Community and Nikolsky Monastery
A walled 18th-century town of Fedoseyevtsy Old Believers, with turrets: the Church of St Nicholas, the Church of the Exaltation of the…
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🏛 Church of Elijah the Prophet in Cherkizovo
A small single-domed church of 1690 on a hill above Cherkizovsky Pond — a remnant of the former village of the Moscow metropolitans.
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🌳 Cherkizovsky Pond
An old pond on the Sosenka river with a path along the shore and a view of the hill with the Church of Elijah — a quiet corner steps from…
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🏛 Afimall City shopping centre
A six-storey shopping centre at the base of Moscow City with an exit straight from Vystavochnaya metro: shops, restaurants and a cinema…
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🏛 Moscow House of Books on Novy Arbat
A big bookshop in a glass building on Novy Arbat: new releases, art albums, guidebooks, postcards and city souvenirs.
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🏛 Kievsky Pier
A floating pier for river electric trams by Kievsky Station: line 1 runs from here to Fili Park and line 4 to Luzhniki.
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🏛 Park Fili Pier
The terminal pier of river electric tram line 1 — on the embankment in the western part of Fili Park.
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🏛 Luzhniki Pier
A floating pier of river electric tram line 4, opened in June 2026 — sailings to Kievsky Station.
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🏛 Torpedo Pier
A pier of river electric tram line 3 on the new Simonovskaya Embankment — sailings to Novospassky Monastery and to ZIL.
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🏛 ZIL Pier
An interchange pier of river electric tram lines 2 and 3 by the ZILART district: sailings to Novospassky Monastery and across the Nagatino…
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🏛 City-Tsentralny Pier
A pier of river electric tram line 1 at the foot of the Moscow City skyscrapers — sailings to Kievsky Station and to Fili Park.
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🏛 Pirogov Monument on Devichye Pole
The bronze surgeon Pirogov sits in an armchair with a skull in his hand in front of the university clinics. It is Moscow's first monument…
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🏛 Church of the Archangel Michael at the Clinics
A red-brick tented church in the middle of the university clinics campus: it was nearly demolished in 1978 and restored by 2002.
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🏛 Pogodin Izba (Pogodinskaya Izba)
A carved wooden terem of 1856 — a gift to the historian Mikhail Pogodin. This izba started the "Russian style" in Moscow's architecture.
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🏛 Church of St Demetrius of Prilutsky on Devichye Pole
A small white church in the Byzantine spirit among the clinic buildings. Nearby, in Abrikosovsky Lane, is a bust of the pathologist…
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🏛 Church of Elijah the Ordinary (Ilya Obydenny)
An old parish church in a lane between Ostozhenka and the embankment. "Obydenny" — according to tradition, the first wooden church was put…
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🚶 Mansurovsky Lane
A short quiet lane between Ostozhenka and Prechistenka with an early-19th-century wooden house that Bulgakov used to visit.
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🏛 Church of the Dormition on Mogiltsy
A neoclassical church surrounded by four lanes. Here Tolstoy had Levin and Kitty married in Anna Karenina.
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🏛 Church of St Blaise in Staraya Konyushennaya
A small 17th-century church in Gagarinsky Lane — the former parish church of the palace Konyushennaya Sloboda (stable settlement).
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🏛 Church of Sts Athanasius and Cyril on Sivtsev Vrazhek
An early-18th-century church on the corner of Sivtsev Vrazhek and Filippovsky Lane; in 1812 the Smolensk Icon was brought here.
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🏛 "Cobblestone — the Weapon of the Proletariat" sculpture
Ivan Shadr's famous sculpture — a worker wrenching a cobblestone from the pavement — stands in the park by Ulitsa 1905 Goda metro, where…
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🏛 Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
A red neo-Gothic cathedral with spires — the largest Catholic church in Russia. It has a big organ inside, with concerts in the evenings.
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🏛 Church of St George the Victorious in Gruziny
The church of the former Georgian Sloboda (Gruziny) — the spiritual centre of Moscow's Georgians: services here are in Georgian and Church…
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🏛 Church of the Nativity of John the Baptist on Presnya
The parish church of the old Presnya settlement on the slope to the former Presnya river, in a quiet lane behind the skyscraper on…
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🏛 Church of the Nine Martyrs of Cyzicus
A small church of Peter's time that gave Devyatinsky Lane its name. It stands right behind the US embassy.
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🏛 Chaliapin Estate on Novinsky Boulevard
A 19th-century mansion where Fyodor Chaliapin lived until he left Russia; in front of it on the boulevard stands a full-length bronze…
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🏛 Brodsky Monument
Brodsky with his head thrown back and hands in his pockets stands before a crowd of faceless figures — one of the most unusual sculptures…
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🏛 Church of St Nicholas on Shchepy
A white 17th-century church in the lanes behind Smolenskaya Square. Named after the Shchepnoy Dvor, where log frames for the tsars' palaces…
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🏛 Gorky Monument at Belorussky Station
Gorky, by Shadr and Mukhina, stands again on the square in front of the station — after 12 years in Muzeon, where he lay on the ground.
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🏛 Old Believer Church of St Nicholas at Tverskaya Zastava
A 1910s Old Believer church by Belorussky Station — white, in the spirit of Novgorod churches.
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🏛 Fadeyev Monument on Miusskaya Square
A big sculptural group on Miusskaya Square: Fadeyev in the centre, with horsemen from The Rout and the Young Guard members on the sides.
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🏛 Church of St Nicholas the Wonderworker in Novaya Sloboda
A building with a Stalinist facade that housed the Soyuzmultfilm studio from 1945 to 2017; above the courtyard rises an old tented bell…
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🏛 Lermontov Monument at Krasnye Vorota
A five-metre bronze Lermontov in a flowing greatcoat — near where the poet was born. You can see it in the film Gentlemen of Fortune.
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🏛 Krasnye Vorota Skyscraper
A Stalinist skyscraper on the Garden Ring with the entrance to Krasnye Vorota metro built into its base.
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🏛 Yusupov Chambers (Palaty Yusupovykh)
Ornate stone chambers with steep roofs — one of Moscow's oldest civil buildings, straight out of a fairy-tale picture.
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🏛 Abai Monument on Chistoprudny Boulevard
A seated bronze Abai Kunanbayev with two stone "Polovtsian" idols on the sides — a gift from Kazakhstan to Moscow.
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🏛 Griboyedov Monument
A pensive Griboyedov at the start of Chistoprudny Boulevard; below, on the pedestal, are the characters of Woe from Wit behind a half-open…
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🏛 Moscow Cathedral Mosque
Moscow's main mosque with a golden dome and minarets by Olimpiysky — a new building of 2015 on the site of the 1904 mosque.
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🏛 Church of Metropolitan Philip in Meshchanskaya Sloboda
Matvey Kazakov's neoclassical church on the spot where Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich met the relics of Metropolitan Philip from Solovki.
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🏛 Sheremetev Hospice (Strannoprimny Dom)
A semicircular palace with a colonnade on the Garden Ring — Count Sheremetev's almshouse and hospital, today the main building of the…
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🏛 Church of the Trinity in Listy
An ornate 17th-century church on the corner of Sretenka and Sukharevskaya Square. "V Listakh" (in Sheets) — because lubok prints were sold…
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🏛 Church of St Gregory of Neocaesarea on Polyanka
A red "royal" church with a belt of "peacock's eye" tiles — one of the most ornate churches of Zamoskvorechye, right by Polyanka metro.
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🏛 Church of St Catherine on Vspolye
Karl Blank's Baroque church with a fence and gates at the end of Ordynka — rebuilt on Catherine II's orders.
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🏛 Church of the Iveron Icon on Vspolye
A severe neoclassical church on Ordynka; in the courtyard between it and the neighbouring estate stands Ernst Neizvestny's sculpture…
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🏛 Church of St Nicholas in Pyzhi
A white 17th-century church with a tented bell tower — a streltsy church, named after Colonel Bogdan Pyzhov.
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🏛 Church of the Joy of All Who Sorrow on Ordynka
Osip Bove's rotunda and a bell tower by Bazhenov — a church that did not lose its furnishings even after it was closed.
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🏛 Lenin Monument on Kaluzhskaya Square
Moscow's biggest Lenin: 22 metres tall, and below it a whole revolution in bronze — soldiers, workers, sailors.
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🏛 Igumnov House
A gingerbread terem with tiles and tented roofs — the house of the Yaroslavl merchant Igumnov, today the residence of the French ambassador.
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🏛 Church of St John the Warrior on Yakimanka
A Baroque church of Peter's time — according to tradition, Peter I himself drew its plan in memory of the Poltava victory.
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🏛 Church of St Maron the Hermit
A small church in Babyegorodsky Lane, where Moscow's first parish school was opened in 1885.
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🏛 Church of St Nicholas in Golutvino
A Baroque church with a gate bell tower in a quiet lane off Yakimanka; since 2011 a representation church of the Chinese Orthodox Church.
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🏛 Church of Sts Michael and Theodore of Chernigov
A small 17th-century church with a tented bell tower in Chernigovsky Lane — steps from busy Pyatnitskaya, next to the Church of John the…
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🏛 Church of the Archangel Michael in Ovchinniki
A 17th-century church in the former Ovchinnaya Sloboda, where sheepskins were dressed — among quiet lanes between Pyatnitskaya and…
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🏛 Moscow Historical Mosque and Tukay Monument
The oldest surviving mosque in Moscow, the heart of the former Tatar Quarter. Around the corner sits a bronze Gabdulla Tukay.
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🏛 Church of St Nicholas in Kuznetsy
The church of the former Blacksmiths' Quarter, with a tall bell tower — one of the few in Moscow that never closed in Soviet times.
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🏛 Church of the Trinity in Vishnyaki
An Empire-style church at the corner of Pyatnitskaya Street and Vishnyakovsky Lane, with a colonnade and a fence from the 1830s.
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🏛 Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in Putinki
A snow-white church with three tent roofs near Pushkinskaya — one of the last tent-roofed churches, since Nikon banned them right after it…
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🏛 Church of St John the Theologian on Bronnaya
A modest 17th-century church in Bogoslovsky Lane, where Alexander Herzen was baptised in 1812.
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🏛 Church of the Resurrection on Uspensky Vrazhek
A church in Bryusov Lane that stayed open even during the Soviet "godless five-year plan" — actors living nearby pleaded for it.
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🏛 Rostropovich Monument
A bronze Rostropovich with his cello in a small square on Bryusov Lane — it feels as if the music is about to start.
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🏛 Church of the Lesser Ascension
A 17th-century church on Bolshaya Nikitskaya, opposite the Conservatory; it was called "Lesser" to tell it apart from the Greater Ascension…
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🏛 Church of Sts Cosmas and Damian on Maroseyka
Matvey Kazakov's round church at the corner of Maroseyka and Starosadsky — small, but visible from every side.
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🏛 Mandelstam Monument
The poet's head thrown back, on a "ruined" column of basalt cubes, in a tiny square between Starosadsky Lane and Zabelin Street.
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🏛 Lutheran Cathedral of Sts Peter and Paul
A neo-Gothic cathedral with a spire in Starosadsky Lane — Moscow's main Lutheran church, with organ concerts.
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🏛 Church of the Trinity on Gryazi
A church with columns on Pokrovka, by the former Pokrovsky Gate — built on the marshy bank of the Rachka river, hence "na Gryazekh" ("in…
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🏛 Church of the Resurrection in Barashi
A Baroque church in Barashi where, according to legend, Empress Elizabeth secretly married Alexei Razumovsky.
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🚶 Listvennichnaya Alley (Larch Alley)
A pedestrian alley from Dmitrovskoye Highway to the Timiryazev Academy: 19th-century Siberian larches and Constructivist academic buildings.
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🏛 Sculpture terrace behind the Timiryazev Academy main building
The upper terrace of the formal park of the Petrovskoye-Razumovskoye estate: allegorical statues, vases on the fence pylons and a monument…
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🏛 Grotto at the Great Garden Pond
An 18th-century stone grotto on the bank of the Razumovsky estate pond — one of the few surviving park structures of…
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🏛 Timiryazev Academy main building and Timiryazev monument
A building with a small clock tower on the site of the main house of the Petrovskoye-Razumovskoye estate, and in front of it a square with…
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🚶 Matrosa Zheleznyaka Boulevard
A long green boulevard in Koptevo, arcing from Mikhalkovskaya Street to Kosmodemyanskikh Street — a quiet route from the MCC to the…
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🏛 Church of St Spyridon of Trimythous in Koptevo
A big new church in the Byzantine style with a stone iconostasis made in Georgia — architecture unusual for Moscow.
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🏛 Wooden Church of St George the Victorious in Koptevo
A log tent-roofed church in the spirit of 17th-century northern architecture, assembled by carpenters from Arkhangelsk in 1997.
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🏛 Monument to Zoya and Alexander Kosmodemyansky
A red granite stele on the site of the house where the siblings Kosmodemyansky lived before the war, with carved portraits.
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🏛 Church of St Sergius of Radonezh in Bibirevo
A single-domed church of the former village of Bibirevo in the Russian style, built in the 1890s in gratitude for deliverance from cholera.
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🌳 Chermyanka Valley at Pleshcheyev Street
The open channel of the Chermyanka in a green valley in the middle of Bibirevo: paths along the river, little bridges, willows and ducks.
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🌳 Bibirevo Ethnographic Village
A park in the Chermyanka floodplain, once conceived as an ethnographic village: wooden bridges and an embankment, a dam, a chapel and play…
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🏛 Monument to the Creators of the First Earth Satellite
A bronze worker raises Sputnik-1 to the sky — the world's first space-themed monument, right at the metro exit.
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🏛 Church of the Sign in Pereyaslavskaya Sloboda
A Baroque church of the coachmen of the former Pereyaslavskaya Sloboda by Rizhsky Station, mid-18th century.
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🏛 Solodovnikov Cheap Apartment Houses
Two five-storey houses of 1909 for poor tenants — Northern Art Nouveau with Gothic touches, built with the millions of the miserly merchant…
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🏛 Church of St Tryphon in Naprudnoye
A small white-stone church of the 15th-16th century — one of the oldest churches in Moscow, lost among high-rises near Rizhskaya.
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🏛 Sokolniki Fire Tower
One of the few pre-revolutionary fire towers left in Moscow — a brick tower of the 1880s by Sokolniki metro.
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🏛 Boev Brothers Almshouse
A long two-storey building in the Russian style with the dome of a house church — a merchant almshouse on the former Sokolniki Field.
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🏛 Catherine (Sailors') Almshouse
A square of 18th-century buildings by the Yauza: first a sailcloth factory of Peter's day, then an almshouse for elderly sailors.
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🌅 Matrossky Bridge over the Yauza
A three-span bridge of the 1950s from Stromynka to Preobrazhenka; from it you can see the bend of the Yauza and its embankments in both…
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🏛 Nosov Mansion on Elektrozavodskaya
A wooden Art Nouveau mansion of 1903 by the architect Kekushev — a rare example of Art Nouveau in wood in Moscow, next to the Nosovs'…
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🌅 Rusakovsky Footbridge
A single-span arched footbridge over the Yauza from the 1950s — a quiet crossing with a view of the river and embankments.
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🏛 Church of the Trinity at St Vladimir's Hospital
A showy hospital church of the 1880s in the 17th-century style with ceramic tiles — the house church of the von Dervis children's hospital.
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🏛 Empress Elizabeth's Country Palace
A single-storey palace on the bank of the former Rybinka river, where Tsesarevna Elizabeth lived under Anna Ioannovna; now it houses a…
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🏛 Church of the Intercession in Rubtsovo
A votive church of Tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich from the 1620s — built in memory of the repulse of Hetman Sahaidachny.
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🏛 Monument to Marshal Rokossovsky
An equestrian statue of Marshal Rokossovsky by Rukavishnikov — the marshal at the moment of the Victory Parade, which he commanded.
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🏛 Rokossovsky portrait graffiti
A huge portrait of the marshal on the end wall of an apartment block — street art in the middle of the residential Bogorodskoye.
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🏛 Wooden Church of the Transfiguration in Bogorodskoye
The only surviving wooden church of the 19th century in Moscow: a tent roof, carved window frames, galleries around the log frame.
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🏛 Church of Sts Peter and Paul in Lefortovo
A five-domed church of 1711 in the former Soldiers' Quarter — the regimental church of Peter's soldiers, never closed in Soviet times.
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🏛 Normandie-Niemen Pilots Monument
A bronze composition honouring the regiment in which French pilots fought on the Soviet front.
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🏛 Monument to Ataman Platov at the Lefortovo Barracks
A bronze Ataman Platov with his Don horse on a mound in Cossack Glory Square, next to the 19th-century Red Barracks.
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🏛 Monument to the Frontline Nurse
A bronze nurse at the entrance to a district clinic — on the site where a hospital for the wounded operated during the war near Moscow.
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🌳 Shkulyov Park and the Churilikha River
A neighbourhood park on the site of the old Lyublino estate park, along the open channel of the Churilikha by Lyublinsky Pond.
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🏛 Monument to Arkady Gaidar
A sculptural group from 1974: the writer talking with a boy and a girl by the former Palace of Pioneers.
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🏛 Sholokhov Monument and the Sentries on Volzhsky Boulevard
A young Sholokhov sits on the steps, while two mounted Cossack sentries stand frozen nearby — a corner of "And Quiet Flows the Don" by…
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🏛 Glory Square and the "Music of Glory" Memorial
A memorial for the 60th anniversary of Victory: the granite "Wreath of Victory", the "Pyramid of Memory" and seven silvery "Fanfares" 21…
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🏛 Yesenin Monument on Yesenin Boulevard
A bronze Yesenin in a kosovorotka shirt, jacket over his shoulder, walking down a slope — V. Tsigal's work of 1972.
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🌳 Serebryano-Vinogradny Pond
A ring-shaped 17th-century pond around Izmailovo Island: water, willows and a view of the tent roofs and domes of the royal estate.
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🏛 Church of the Nativity of Christ in Izmailovo
A five-domed church of the 1670s, built by a Kostroma craftsmen's guild for the peasants of the royal Izmailovo, with a Baroque bell tower…
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🏛 Izmailovo Manufactory
Red-brick buildings of a 19th-century cotton-spinning mill — industrial Izmailovo, which grew out of a cloth workshop.
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🏛 Church of Sts Boris and Gleb in Degunino
A brick church of the 1860s in the former village of Degunino, built to standard designs by Thon; in Soviet times it served as a workshop…
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🌳 Svyatoslav Fyodorov Park
A neighbourhood park by Seligerskaya with a bronze monument to the eye surgeon Fyodorov — holding an artificial lens in his hand.
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🏛 Church of the Deposition of the Robe on Donskaya
Naryshkin Baroque two steps from Shabolovskaya metro: a church on the spot where in 1625 Moscow welcomed the Robe of the Lord, a gift from…
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🏛 Old Believer Church of the Tikhvin Icon on Khavskaya
A red-brick Old Believer church of 1911-1912 deep in Khavskaya Street — after almost a century in other hands, it has been active again…
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🏛 Khavsko-Shabolovsky Housing Estate
A workers' settlement by rationalist architects of the late 1920s: the buildings stand at 45° to the streets, and the district still looks…
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🏛 Nikolaev Communal House on Ordzhonikidze Street
Moscow's most radical communal house: a student dormitory of 1929-1930 with an eight-storey sleeping block of cubicles measuring 2.7 by 2.3…
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🏛 Gagarin Monument on Leninsky Prospekt
A 42-metre column with a titanium Gagarin who seems to take off above the square — the road he drove into Moscow along after his flight.
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🌳 Perekopsky Pond and the Perekop Heroes Monument
A small estate pond of the former village of Zyuzino with paths by the water and a memorial sign devised by schoolchildren.
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🏛 Church of Sts Boris and Gleb in Zyuzino
Naryshkin Baroque among panel blocks: the church of the former estate of the Prozorovsky princes, a relative of the church in…
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🌳 Pond on Kerchenskaya Street
A round courtyard pond with willows on the bank — mallard ducks are fed here.
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🌳 Zyuzino Park and Kakhovsky Pond
A neighbourhood park around the Lower Afonino Pond: playgrounds, paths by the water and sea-themed graffiti on the walls of nearby…
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🏛 Monument to the Defenders of Moscow's Sky
A monument to the crew of an SB-2 bomber that crashed in October 1941: the plane was found 27 years later, while a cable was being laid in…
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🖼 Belyaevo Gallery
A district exhibition hall with an underground history: in the late 1980s it was the first place to officially show the nonconformists…
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🌳 Konkovo Ponds
Two ponds of the former Konkovo-Troitskoye estate between Belyaevo and Konkovo — a quiet shore in the middle of residential blocks.
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🏛 Church of the Trinity in Konkovo
A small church in the Naryshkin style of the 1690s — all that is left of the Konkovo estate, now right by Profsoyuznaya.
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🚶 Site of the "Bulldozer Exhibition"
The intersection at the exit from Konkovo metro: in 1974 this was wasteland where the police broke up an exhibition of unofficial artists…
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🏛 Mahatma Gandhi Monument
A bust of Mahatma Gandhi on a high pedestal in a square by Lomonosovsky Prospekt — India's gift to Moscow.
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🏛 Indira Gandhi Monument
A bronze Indira Gandhi on the square named after her by Lomonosovsky Prospekt.
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🏛 Monument to Chekhov the Student
The young Chekhov in a greatcoat hugging a dog on a granite bench — you can sit next to him.
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🏛 Monument to Ivan Shuvalov at the MSU Library
Count Shuvalov, the university's first curator, sits and looks across the avenue straight at Lomonosov.
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🏛 Lomonosov Monument at the MSU Main Building
A young Lomonosov with a pen and paper on the central axis of the whole university ensemble.
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🏛 Round House on Dovzhenko Street
A nine-storey ring 155 metres across, built of ordinary panels — with a huge quiet courtyard inside.
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🏛 House on Mosfilmovskaya
Sergei Skuratov's skyscraper with a "twisted" tower — one of the most awarded residential buildings in Moscow of the 2010s.
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🏛 Mosfilm Alley of Fame: the Movie Camera and the Docent
Three movie cameras from different eras on one tripod and Evgeny Leonov as the Docent — at the gates of the country's main film studio.
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🏛 Church of St George the Victorious on Poklonnaya Hill
A memorial church to the Victory with glazed arches and bronze reliefs, built in a year and a half.
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🏛 "Tragedy of the Peoples" Memorial
A procession of falling nude figures by Tsereteli — in memory of the victims of the Holocaust and Nazi crimes.
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🏛 Memorial Synagogue on Poklonnaya Hill
A synagogue in memory of the six million Jews who perished, with a Holocaust museum inside.
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🏛 Monument to the Internationalist Soldiers
A soldier in camouflage with a helmet in his hand stands at the edge of a cliff — a monument to those who fought in Afghanistan.
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🏛 Monument to the Defenders of the Russian Land
A bogatyr, a guardsman of 1812 and a soldier of the Great Patriotic War stand shoulder to shoulder on a hill.
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🏛 Memorial Mosque on Poklonnaya Hill
A small mosque of 1997 in memory of Muslim soldiers — the third house of worship in Victory Park, two minutes from Minskaya metro.
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🏛 Karamyshevsky Bridge and Lock No. 9
A 1930s bridge right over a lock of the Moscow Canal: from here you can see ships being raised and lowered on the straightened stretch of…
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🚶 Karamyshevskaya Embankment
A quiet residential embankment along the Moskva River with a view of the green Mnyovniki floodplain on the opposite bank.
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🏛 Church of the Trinity in Khoroshyovo
A church of 1598 with a tent-roofed silhouette from Boris Godunov's estate — one of the oldest in Moscow outside the centre.
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🏛 Church of the Quick to Hearken Icon on Khodynka Field
A small military church in the Russian style, built for the cadets of the summer camps on Khodynka.
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🏛 Kurchatov Monument on Kurchatov Square
The huge bronze head of "the Beard" in front of the Kurchatov Institute — this is where the Soviet atomic programme began.
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🏛 Laboratory No. 2 Academic Town
Three 1940s mansions in the style of an Italian palazzo — housing for the scientists who built the first Soviet atomic bomb.
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🌳 Shchukino Forest Park
22 hectares of forest by Shchukinskaya metro with remnants of an old pine forest.
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🌳 Beket Pond
A round spring-fed pond in the Chura floodplain with a sandy, grassy beach — a natural monument two steps from the TTK ring road.
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🏛 Church of the Descent of the Holy Spirit at Danilovskoye Cemetery
An Empire-style rotunda of the 1830s in the middle of an old cemetery that opened during the plague of 1771.
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🏛 Danilovskaya Manufaktura
Red-brick buildings of a 19th-century textile factory, turned into a business district with passages between the workshops.
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🏛 Ship House on Bolshaya Tulskaya
A 400-metre "lying skyscraper" built for nuclear industry workers by Tulskaya metro — almost 1,000 apartments in one building.
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🌳 Partisans of the Moscow Region Alley
The park's main alley from Prospekt Vernadskogo metro with a monument to internationalist soldiers — the former Borovskoye Highway.
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🌳 October 50th Anniversary Park
A large neighbourhood forest park on the banks of the Ramenka: ponds, a spring, children's play areas with a zip line, and a climbing wall.
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🌅 Narodny Bridge over the Ramenka
A footbridge where the Onuchin Ravine stream flows into the Ramenka: beyond it the river heads into a green valley that is a natural…
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🏛 Escalator Gallery on Vorobyovy Hills
A glass gallery with escalators that lifts you from the metro through the forest to the hilltop. Built in 1959, abandoned for almost 30…
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🏛 Malchish-Kibalchish Monument
A five-metre Malchish in a budenovka cap with a sabre and a bugle — the hero of Gaidar's fairy tale at the entrance to the Palace of…
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🏛 Palace of Pioneers on Vorobyovy Hills
Moscow's main monument of Soviet modernism: pavilions with glass walls and mosaics, blended into the park.
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🏛 Herzen and Ogarev Oath Site
A granite obelisk above the slope where two teenagers swore in 1827 to devote their lives to the struggle for freedom.
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🏛 Church of the Trinity on Vorobyovy Hills
A village Empire-style church of the former palace village of Vorobyovo — 200 metres from the viewing platform.
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🏛 Gorbunov House of Culture
A Constructivist palace of culture of an aircraft plant, the legendary "Gorbushka" of late-1980s rock concerts.
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🏛 N-209 Crew Monument at the Khrunichev Plant
A square with memorial markers at the plant's gatehouse: to Levanevsky's crew, who vanished over the Arctic in 1937, and a bust of Mikhail…
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