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      All day: Moscow by night

      ⏱ 12 h🚶 5.5 km + 🚇🚕🍽 5📍 9 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      Starting after lunch: sunset over Moscow City, dinner on a river boat, illuminated Zaryadye and Nikolskaya, bars and a finale at the round-the-clock Pushkin.

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      1. 1
        🧺 Dorogomilovsky Market
        ул. Можайский Вал, 10
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        Lunch: a late one, around 14:30 — at the ready-food counters
        🍴 A large food market by Kievsky Station with Eastern-style stalls. What to order: plov from the Uzbeks, Korean salads and pickles, fresh Georgian lavash with cheese, burrata at pavilion A58.
      2. 🚇 7 min on foot to Kievskaya metro, light blue line to Vystavochnaya, 1 stop — Bagration Bridge is closed until the end of 2030
      3. 2
        🌅 Panorama 360 observation deck
        Пресненская наб., 12, башня «Федерация»
        🎟 ticket
        An observation deck at a height of 327 m in the Federation Tower, with views over all of Moscow through glass walls.
        Sunset from the 89th floor: in October the sun sets around 17:00-17:40, come early
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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.
      4. 🚇 metro from Vystavochnaya to Kievskaya (light blue line), 1 stop, then on foot to the embankment
      5. 3
        🚶 Taras Shevchenko Embankment
        The embankment opposite Moscow City, with a wide promenade, piers and a view of the skyscrapers across the river.
        A walk along the embankment to the pier, with Moscow City already lit up
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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).
      6. 🚶 on foot
      7. 4
        🍽 Restaurant on a yacht of the Radisson Royal fleet
        причал гостиницы «Украина», наб. Тараса Шевченко
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        Dinner: on the boat on an evening cruise, book a table in advance
        🍴 Lunch or dinner on board an ice-class yacht during a year-round cruise from the Hotel Ukraina. What to order: fish or seafood from the signature menu, steak, and to finish dessert with coffee.
      8. 🚕 taxi, about 15 min along the embankments
      9. 5
        🌳 Zaryadye Park
        🎟 partly ticketed · the park is free; the media centre and ice cave are ticketed
        A park by the Kremlin walls with landscapes of Russia's different zones, hills, underground pavilions and a concert hall.
        The Floating Bridge and the Kremlin illumination from the river
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        Zaryadye Park
        © GAlexandrova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Zaryadye Park
        © Alina Vozna · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The park opened on 9 September 2017, City Day, on the site of the Rossiya Hotel, which closed in 2006.
        • The Rossiya Hotel, opened in 1967, was at the time the largest in the world.
        • The project was created by a consortium led by the New York studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro, which won the 2013 competition.
        • Four Russian landscapes have been recreated over 13 hectares: tundra, steppe, forest and swamp.
        • The Floating Bridge juts out 70 m over the Moskva River and has no supports in the water.
        • Zaryadye Concert Hall opened on 8 September 2018: the main hall has about 1,500 seats, and the organ has 85 stops.
        • In 2018 Time magazine named Zaryadye one of the world's greatest places, and in 2019 the park won the jury's top prize at the MIPIM Awards in Cannes.
      10. 🚶 on foot
      11. 6
        🚶 Nikolskaya Street
        A pedestrian street from Red Square to Lubyanka with the Kazan Cathedral, the Print Yard and garlands overhead.
        A street under strings of lights
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        Nikolskaya Street
        © Ludvig14 · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Nikolskaya Street
        © Uwe Brodrecht · CC BY-SA 2.0
        Nikolskaya Street
        © Юрий Д.К. · CC BY 4.0
        • It is named after the Old St Nicholas Monastery, founded here in 1390.
        • In 1564 Ivan Fyodorov printed the Apostol at the Print Yard on Nikolskaya, the first dated Russian printed book.
        • The Gothic Synodal Printing House with a lion and a unicorn was built in 1814; the press worked there until 1918.
        • In 1687 the Slavic Greek Latin Academy opened here, Moscow's first institution of higher education, where Lomonosov later studied.
        • In the Slavyansky Bazar restaurant (No. 17) in 1897, Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko, over many hours of conversation, agreed to found the Moscow Art Theatre.
        • Ferrein's pharmacy at No. 21 was built in 1894–1899 to a design by Adolf Erichson.
        • The street became pedestrian in August 2013 and is about 630 m long.
      12. 🚕 taxi, about 10 min or 25 min on foot via Tverskaya
      13. 7
        🍸 Bus hand roll bar
        Малый Козихинский пер., 8/18
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        Hand rolls to vinyl; no reservations, there can be a queue
        🍴 A Japanese listening bar from Lucky Group on Patriarshiye: vinyl from Tokyo, cocktails by Maxim Gorelik's team, no reservations. What to order: hand rolls, gyoza, ramen.
      14. 🚕 taxi, about 8 min or about 20 min on foot via Pushkinskaya Square and Strastnoy Boulevard
      15. 8
        🍸 Mendeleev Bar
        ул. Петровка, 20/1 (цокольный этаж)
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        A cocktail bar in a basement on Petrovka with an inconspicuous entrance; open Tue-Sat from 18:00, better to book
        🍴 A hidden cocktail bar on Petrovka with Asian food and live music; open Tue–Sat from 18:00, and without a reservation you may not be let in. What to order: the Ninja and Vseslav cocktails, a handroll with spicy scallop, salmon tartare.
      16. 🚶 on foot
      17. 9
        🍽 Café Pushkin
        Тверской б-р, 26А
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        The finale: round the clock Friday-Sunday, until midnight on weekdays
        🍴 A restaurant of Russian aristocratic cuisine in an old-style mansion on Tverskoy Boulevard, open since 1999. What to order: beef stroganoff with Pushkin potatoes, a Pozharsky cutlet with mushroom sauce, dumplings with three kinds of meat.

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