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      All day with kids: skyscrapers, ciphers and the metro

      ⏱ 11 h🚶 3 km + 🚆🚕🚇🍽 2📍 9 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      For teenagers: the 89th-floor viewpoint in Moscow City, a cable car over the Moskva River, GES-2, museums of ciphers and transport with simulators, and street food at Depo.

      👶 With kids✨ New places
      👶 7–12, 13+ years · ✓ stroller-friendly

      MCC stations (Delovoy Tsentr, Luzhniki) have lifts. At Fonvizinskaya the lifts don't reach the platform without an escalator, and Komsomolskaya and Belorusskaya have no lifts — better to take a taxi to the Cryptography Museum and to Depo. A stroller fits into the cable car cabin. Bagration Bridge is closed for reconstruction until the end of 2030.

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      1. 1
        🌅 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.
        Arrive at opening at 10:00, when it's quiet; better to buy tickets online
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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.
      2. 🚆 MCC from Delovoy Tsentr to Luzhniki (2 stops), then about 12 min on foot to the lower cable car station
      3. 2
        ✨ 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.
        A few minutes in a cabin above the river
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        Luzhniki – Sparrow Hills cable car
        © Правительство Москвы · CC BY 4.0
        • The cable car was built for the 2018 World Cup but opened only on 26 November 2018.
        • Already on 28 November it was closed because of a hacker attack.
        • The line has three stations and a height difference of 60 m; the equipment was made by Switzerland's Bartholet.
        • It runs 8-seat gondolas, and in winter 4-seat chairs are added on the second section.
        • Part of the route follows the line of a 1953 chairlift that served the Big Ski Jump; it was dismantled in 2016.
      4. 🚶 on foot
      5. 3
        🌅 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.
        Photos from the viewpoint of Luzhniki and Moscow City
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        Sparrow Hills viewpoint (Vorobyovy Gory)
        © Alexxx1979 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Sparrow Hills viewpoint (Vorobyovy Gory)
        © Alexxx1979 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Sparrow Hills viewpoint (Vorobyovy Gory)
        © Niklitov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The viewing platform was built in 1948 to a design by the architect Vitaly Dolganov.
        • From 1935 to 1999 the hills were officially called the Lenin Hills.
        • The slope rises up to 80 m above the river, a ledge of the Teplostanskaya Upland.
        • The second-to-last chapter of The Master and Margarita is called "On the Sparrow Hills".
        • Downstream from the platform stands a memorial marking the oath of Herzen and Ogarev.
        • The Moscow State University main building behind the platform is 240 m with its spire, and the central block has 36 floors.
      6. 🚕 taxi, about 15 min
      7. 4
        ✨ GES-2 House of Culture
        Болотная наб., 15
        🎟 partly ticketed · the building is free with registration, exhibitions require a ticket
        A former power station across from the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, rebuilt by Renzo Piano into an open house of culture with exhibitions and cafés.
        Free entry; look into the workshops and the exhibition
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        GES-2 House of Culture
        © Юрий Д.К. · CC BY 4.0
        GES-2 House of Culture
        © Юрий Д.К. · CC BY 4.0
        • The power station was built in 1905–1907, designed by Vasily Bashkirov, to power the Moscow tram.
        • The reconstruction was carried out by the studio of Italian architect Renzo Piano, who also designed the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
        • The House of Culture opened in December 2021; it was created by Leonid Mikhelson's V–A–C Foundation.
        • Four steel chimneys about 70 metres tall serve as air intakes, bringing fresh air into the building.
        • At the opening, Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson spent months re-filming the series Santa Barbara here, live for visitors.
        • Inside there is a library, a cinema, a concert hall and open workshops.
      8. 🚶 on foot
      9. 5
        ☕️ Khleb-2 bakery and Ostanovka café at GES-2
        Болотная наб., 15
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        Lunch: Khleb-2 pastries and the Ostanovka café right inside GES-2
        🍴 After the 2026 relaunch, the Khleb-2 bakery (9:00–21:00), the Ostanovka café (11:00–22:00) and, on weekdays, the Stolovaya canteen (11:00–18:00) are open again. What to order: sourdough bread, croissants and coffee at the bakery, and lunch at the canteen on weekdays. Check the GES-2 website before you go to see whether the cafés are open.
      10. 🚇 10 min on foot to Polyanka metro, grey line to Tsvetnoy Bulvar (3 stops), change to Trubnaya, light green line to Fonvizinskaya (4 stops), 12 min on foot
      11. 6
        🖼 Cryptography Museum
        Ботаническая ул., 25, стр. 4
        🎟 ticket
        Russia's first cryptography museum, in the building of the former "Marfino sharashka" written about by Solzhenitsyn.
        Interactive cipher machines, allow a couple of hours to look around
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        Cryptography Museum
        © Leokand · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The building was built in 1885 for a children's shelter named in honor of the coronation of Alexander III and Maria Feodorovna.
        • In 1946 Special Prison No. 16 opened here, where imprisoned scientists worked, among them Lev Kopelev and Dmitry Panin.
        • From 1952 the building housed a research institute for cipher equipment, and for decades it was off-limits.
        • The museum opened on 21 December 2021.
        • The exhibition runs in reverse order: from the digital era back to ancient ciphers like Atbash.
        • The exhibition has more than 120 multimedia installations, and the collection has more than 5,000 items, including Soviet cipher machines.
        • A separate hall, "The Building's Memory", shows finds made during renovation and declassified documents.
      12. 🚕 taxi, about 20-25 min
      13. 7
        🖼 Moscow Transport Museum in the Melnikov Garage
        Новорязанская ул., 27
        🎟 ticket
        Opened in September 2026 in the restored Melnikov Garage on Novoryazanskaya (Shukhov may have been involved in the design of the metal trusses): an 1872 horse tram, metro cars, buses and trolleybuses, 27 simulators.
        Opened in September 2026: 27 simulators, metro carriages; check hours and tickets on the website
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        Moscow Transport Museum in the Melnikov Garage
        © Metrostroy2033 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Moscow Transport Museum in the Melnikov Garage
        © Metrostroy2033 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The garage on Novoryazanskaya is Konstantin Melnikov's second garage, on which he began work in 1926.
        • The horseshoe shape was dictated by the triangular plot, not just by the architect's concept.
        • The 54 roof trusses rest only on the outer walls, so there is not a single support inside the hall.
        • Before the museum, a taxi depot, a car repair plant and a bus depot worked here, until 2015.
        • Exhibits include a metro car from Berlin and the MatrEshka driverless bus.
        • The museum traces its history to the Retro Car Museum on Rogozhsky Val, opened in 2003.
      14. 🚶 on foot
      15. 8
        🏛 Komsomolskaya metro station (Circle line)
        A 1952 metro station with Baroque-style vaults, chandeliers and mosaics on the ceiling.
        The grandest station on the Ring Line — five minutes on foot from the museum
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        Komsomolskaya metro station (Circle line)
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        • The station was built to a design by Alexey Shchusev; in 1952 he was posthumously awarded the Stalin Prize for it, together with the artist Pavel Korin.
        • The central nave, 11 m wide and 9 m high, is the largest of any column station in the Moscow metro.
        • Korin's eight ceiling mosaics show Alexander Nevsky, Dmitry Donskoy, Minin and Pozharsky, Suvorov, Kutuzov and soldiers at the Reichstag.
        • Korin himself redid the two panels with Stalin in 1963: they now show Lenin before the Red Guards and the Motherland statue by the Spasskaya Tower.
        • In 2021 the transport department named Komsomolskaya the busiest metro station, with 29.1 million passengers a year.
        • In 1991–1992 it was proposed to rename the station Kalanchevskaya or Three Stations.
      16. 🚇 on the Ring Line from Komsomolskaya to Belorusskaya (3 stops), then 5 min on foot along Lesnaya
      17. 9
        🍜 Depo.Moskva
        Лесная ул., 20А
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        Dinner: street food from all over the world, everyone picks their own
        🍴 A huge food hall in a former tram depot by Belorusskaya: dozens of food stalls and farmers' shops. What to order: crab shawarma at Kraby Kutaby, pasta at Makarony Kosmos, ramen at the ramen counter.

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