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      Moscow City: skyscrapers and the 85th floor

      ⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 2.5 km + 🚇🍽 1📍 4 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      An embankment with views of the towers, the metro to City, Europe's highest viewing platform and dinner above the clouds.

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      1. 1
        🏛 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 view of the river.
        Start at Kievsky Station
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        Eurasia Square (formerly Europe Square)
        © Retired electrician · CC0
        • Since 24 July 2024 the square has officially been called Eurasia Square.
        • The square was built in 2001–2002 as part of a Russian-Belgian project, designed by architect Yuri Platonov.
        • The fountain sculpture The Abduction of Europa was devised by Belgian sculptor Olivier Strebelle: the composition is 11 m high and the basin is 50 m in diameter.
        • The fountain's lighting is made up of 4,000 LED lamps.
        • The square has 48 columns with flags; the flags of European countries were taken down in March 2023.
      2. 🚶 on foot
      3. 2
        🚶 Taras Shevchenko Embankment
        The embankment opposite Moscow City, with a wide promenade, piers and a view of the skyscrapers across the river.
        A view of the towers from the river; the Bagration Bridge is closed until the end of 2030, so go back to Kievskaya
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        Taras Shevchenko Embankment
        © Gennady Grachev from Moscow, Russia · CC BY 2.0
        Taras Shevchenko Embankment
        © Gennady Grachev from Moscow, Russia · CC BY 2.0
        • The embankment received Taras Shevchenko's name in 1961, for the centenary of his death; it was extended to Kievskaya Street at the same time.
        • In 1964 a monument to Shevchenko was placed in the small park in front of the Hotel Ukraina.
        • The Hotel Ukraina is a Stalinist skyscraper of 1950–1957 by architects Arkady Mordvinov and Vyacheslav Oltarzhevsky.
        • Minister Nikolai Baibakov and actor Valentin Gaft lived in the Oil Workers' House (no. 1/2, 1938–1953).
      4. 🚇 10 min on foot to Kievskaya metro, 1 stop on the Filyovskaya (light blue) line to Vystavochnaya, then 5 min to the Federation Tower
      5. 3
        🌅 Panorama 360 observation deck
        Пресненская наб., 12, башня «Федерация»
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        An observation deck at a height of 327 m in the Federation Tower, with views over all of Moscow through glass walls.
        The 89th floor; sunset is the best time
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        Panorama 360 observation deck
        © Dinozaurus · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Panorama 360 observation deck
        © Dinozaurus · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Panorama 360 observation deck
        © Dinozaurus · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The deck opened in April 2018 on the 89th floor of the Vostok Tower; the venue itself claims to be the highest in Europe.
        • The Vostok Tower, 374 m tall, is the second tallest building in Europe after St Petersburg's Lakhta Center.
        • The Federation complex was designed by Sergey Choban and Peter Schweger.
        • The pouring of the foundation slab in February 2006, 14,000 cubic metres of concrete, entered the Guinness Book of Records.
        • The complex has 67 lifts, some of them twin systems with two cabins in one shaft.
        • The deck has an ice cream museum, and its mascot is a polar bear named Panoramych.
      6. 🚶 on foot
      7. 4
        🍽 Ruski
        1-й Красногвардейский пр-д, 21, стр. 2 (башня «ОКО»), 85 этаж
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        Russian cuisine and cocktails on the 85th floor, booking is required
        🍴 A Russian restaurant with a real oven on the 85th floor of the OKO tower, with a view of all of Moscow. What to order: borscht, ribs, oven-roasted duck, medovik (honey cake).

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