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      All day: Moscow from above

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

      The city's five best viewpoints, from the Detsky Mir rooftop to the 89th floor in Moscow City.

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      1. 1
        ☕️ Bosco Café in GUM
        Красная пл., 3, ГУМ, 1-я линия
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        Breakfast
        🍴 An Italian café on the first line of GUM with windows onto Red Square. What to order: syrniki (cottage-cheese pancakes) with berries, blini with homemade cottage cheese or porridge for breakfast, gelato from the Bosco kiosk.
      2. 🚶 on foot
      3. 2
        ✨ Central Children's Store on Lubyanka (Detsky Mir)
        🎟 partly ticketed · the store is free to enter, the rooftop viewing platform requires a ticket
        The country's largest children's store, in a 1957 building with an atrium and a rooftop viewing platform.
        Viewpoint on the roof of Central Children's Store
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        Central Children's Store on Lubyanka (Detsky Mir)
        © Юрий Д.К. · CC BY 4.0
        Central Children's Store on Lubyanka (Detsky Mir)
        © A.Savin · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The building was built in 1953–1957 to a design by Alexey Dushkin on the site of the demolished Lubyansky Passage, using its foundations and basements.
        • The department store opened on 6 June 1957 and was the first building in the USSR to install escalators.
        • Pavel Korin's mosaic panels were never made: the project was simplified during the fight against "excesses".
        • During the 2008–2015 reconstruction a seven-story atrium replaced the three-story one; eight bronze floor lamps and the marble staircases remain from the old interior.
        • The atrium clock's mechanism weighs 4.5 tonnes and has 5,000 parts, and its pendulum is 13 meters long; the clock was made by the Petrodvorets Watch Factory.
        • The carousel with horses that stood for many years in the old Detsky Mir returned to the main atrium in 2021.
        • Under the roof is the Museum of Childhood, with about a thousand exhibits, including Soviet toys.
      4. 🚶 on foot
      5. 3
        🌳 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
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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.
      6. 🚶 on foot
      7. 4
        🏛 Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
        🚪 entrance from Prechistenskaya Embankment
        🎟 partly ticketed · the cathedral is free, the observation deck requires a ticket with a guided tour
        Russia's largest Orthodox cathedral, rebuilt in the 1990s, with white walls and golden domes.
        Viewpoint on the cathedral bell tower
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        Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
        © Юрий Д.К. · CC BY 4.0
        Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
        © Gabriele Sotgiu · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The idea of a cathedral-monument to the victory over Napoleon was put forward in December 1812 by General Pyotr Kikin.
        • The first cathedral was laid down in 1817 on the Sparrow Hills to a design by Karl Witberg, but construction was halted and Witberg was exiled to Vyatka.
        • The cathedral on Volkhonka was built to Konstantin Thon's design until 1860, and consecrated only in 1883 under Alexander III.
        • The names of officers killed in the war of 1812 and the foreign campaigns are inscribed on the cathedral's walls.
        • On 5 December 1931 the cathedral was blown up to make way for the Palace of Soviets, which was never built; the Moskva swimming pool was made on the site instead.
        • The current building was recreated in 1994–1999 on the old plinth, but from different materials.
      8. 🚶 on foot
      9. 5
        🍽 Grabli restaurant on the Arbat
        ул. Арбат, 1
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        Lunch
        🍴 A self-service restaurant on the 2nd floor at the start of the Arbat: you pick hot dishes, salads and pastries yourself. What to order: cheesecake or another homemade dessert, pastries, pumpkin cream soup.
      10. 🚇 metro from Biblioteka imeni Lenina to Vorobyovy Gory (red line), 5 stops, then about 20 min uphill on foot to the viewpoint
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        🌅 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.
        The classic viewpoint
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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.
      12. 🚶 on foot
      13. 7
        🏛 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.
        The MSU skyscraper
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        Moscow State University Main Building
        © Dmitry A. Mottl · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Moscow State University Main Building
        © Uwe Brodrecht · CC BY-SA 2.0
        • The building was built in four years: construction began in 1949, and by 1 September 1953 the university had its new building.
        • The first chief architect was Boris Iofan, but he was removed, and the project was completed by Lev Rudnev and his co-authors.
        • Iofan wanted to crown the tower with a huge statue, but in the end the building was finished with a spire and a star, like the other skyscrapers.
        • Until the 1990s the MSU main building was the tallest in Europe.
        • The dial of the tower clock is 8.74 m in diameter; as of 2014 it was the largest tower clock in Europe.
        • The parts of the spire were lifted through a temporary shaft inside the building, in which railway tracks were laid.
        • The building has 5,754 dormitory rooms for students and postgraduates and 184 flats.
        • The facade sculptures were made by Vera Mukhina's workshop; her proposal to put The Worker and Kolkhoz Woman in front of MSU was rejected.
      14. 🚕 taxi, about 15-20 min
      15. 8
        🌅 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.
        The 89th floor at sunset
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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.
      16. 🚶 on foot
      17. 9
        🍽 Ruski
        1-й Красногвардейский пр-д, 21, стр. 2 (башня «ОКО»), 85 этаж
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        Dinner on the 85th floor
        🍴 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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