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      From the Detsky Mir roof to the Floating Bridge

      ⏱ 3 h🚶 2 km🍽 1📍 6 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      Sunset over the Kremlin from the roof of Detsky Mir, the garlands of Nikolskaya, Red Square lit up, the night river from the Floating Bridge and dinner in Zaryadye until midnight.

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      1. 1
        ✨ 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.
        Go up for sunset: the entrance to the viewing deck is through the “Exhibition of Childhood” on the 6th floor, ticket 399 ₽. From the roof you see the Kremlin, Lubyanka and the spire of Moscow State University. Open until 22:00, on Friday and Saturday until 23:00
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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.
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      3. 2
        🚶 Nikolskaya Street
        A pedestrian street from Red Square to Lubyanka with the Kazan Cathedral, the Print Yard and garlands overhead.
        Walk down Nikolskaya to Red Square — in the evening garlands glow over the street
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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.
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      5. 3
        🏛 Red Square
        The country's main square, paved with cobblestones, between the Kremlin, GUM, the State Historical Museum and St Basil's Cathedral.
        With the dark the Spasskaya Tower, GUM and St Basil’s are lit. If the square is closed for an event, go around by Ilyinka and Varvarka
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        Red Square
        © Юрий Д.К. · CC BY 4.0
        Red Square
        © Олег Токарев · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Red Square
        © Leokand · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The name "Red" ("beautiful") stuck to the square in the second half of the 17th century; before that it was called Torg ("the Market") and Pozhar ("the Burnt Place").
        • The square measures about 330 by 75 metres.
        • In 1990 Red Square, together with the Kremlin, was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List.
        • The Lobnoye Mesto is mentioned from 1549; contrary to legend, executions were usually held not on it but next to it.
        • The Minin and Pozharsky monument by Ivan Martos was unveiled in 1818 and moved to St Basil's Cathedral in 1931.
        • GUM, formerly the Upper Trading Rows, was built in 1890–1893 to a design by Alexander Pomerantsev.
        • The present granite Lenin Mausoleum was built to a design by Alexey Shchusev in 1930.
        • On 7 November 1941 troops leaving the parade marched from here straight to the front.
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      7. 4
        🌳 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.
        Step onto the Floating Bridge: the river is underfoot, the Kremlin on the right, and on the left the lights of Moskvoretskaya Embankment and the skyscraper on Kotelnicheskaya
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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.
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      9. 5
        🍽 Zaryadye Gastronomic Centre
        ул. Варварка, 6, стр. 3
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        Dinner in the food hall: several kitchens under one roof, open until midnight
        🍴 Rappoport's big restaurant in Zaryadye Park: several cuisines, waiters and almost identical prices for every dish. What to order: fish soup, beef stroganoff, tongue and mushroom julienne, and cake for dessert.
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      11. 6
        🌅 Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge
        A 1938 bridge over the Moskva River with views of the Kremlin, Red Square and Zamoskvorechye.
        The finale on the bridge: from here the Kremlin and St Basil’s are visible in full, lit. It’s 10–15 minutes to Kitay-Gorod or Novokuznetskaya metro
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        Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge
        © Юрий Д.К. · CC BY 4.0
        Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge
        © Юрий Д.К. · CC BY 4.0
        • This is one of the oldest crossings in Moscow: a pontoon bridge stood here from 1498.
        • The present bridge was built in 1936–1938 to a design by architects Alexey Shchusev and P. M. Sardaryan and engineer V. S. Kirillov.
        • Under the 1935 General Plan the bridge was raised 14 m above the water so that Volga ships could pass beneath it.
        • With its approaches the bridge is 554 m long and 40 m wide, with three spans of monolithic reinforced concrete.
        • On 28 May 1987 West German amateur pilot Mathias Rust landed his light aircraft on the bridge.
        • On 27 February 2015 the politician Boris Nemtsov was shot dead on the bridge.

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