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Novodevichy Convent is a women's Orthodox monastery in Moscow's Khamovniki district, by a bend of the Moskva River, a fifteen-minute walk from the Garden Ring. Its roughly 5.18-hectare grounds are enclosed by fortress walls with twelve towers stretching about 900 meters. Since 2004 the convent has b
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The Bolshoi Theatre is Russia's oldest and most famous opera and ballet house, a symbol of Moscow on a par with the Kremlin and Red Square. Its grand neoclassical building, fronted by a columned portico and a bronze quadriga of Apollo, stands on Theatre Square right in the city centre, a short walk
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Zaryadye Park is an urban park in the very centre of Moscow, on the bank of the Moskva River, a few minutes' walk from the Kremlin and Red Square. It covers about 13 hectares in the historic Zaryadye district, on the site of the demolished Rossiya Hotel, and opened on September 9, 2017, for Moscow's
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Moscow City is a business district in the western part of Moscow, on the bank of the Moskva River in the Presnensky District, next to the Third Ring Road. Officially the complex is called the Moscow International Business Center (MIBC), and it brings together more than a dozen skyscrapers: offices,
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Patriarch Ponds is a pond and public garden in the Presnensky District of Moscow, inside the Garden Ring, between Malaya Bronnaya Street and Bolshoy Patriarshy Lane, two to three kilometers from the Kremlin. The water surface covers about 9,900 square meters with a depth of up to 2.5 meters, while t
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Arbat (Stary Arbat) is one of Moscow's oldest streets, a pedestrian zone about 1,250 metres long running between Arbatskiye Vorota Square and Smolenskaya Square, in the stretch between Prechistenka and Novy Arbat. The earliest chronicle mentions of the area date to the 15th century, and for decades
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Vorobyovy Gory (Sparrow Hills) is a natural area on the right bank of the Moskva River, at the foot of Moscow State University, across the river from the Luzhniki Stadium. It is the highest of Moscow's seven hills: the steep bank rises about 80 meters above the river and serves as the city's main vi
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Kolomenskoye is a museum-reserve and former tsarist residence in south-eastern Moscow, on a high bank of the Moskva River. The grounds cover about 390 hectares and border the Nagatinsky Zaton district; the nearest metro station is Kolomenskaya. Kolomenskoye became part of Moscow in the 1960s. The en
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Kolomenskoye is a museum-reserve and former tsarist residence in south-eastern Moscow, on a high bank of the Moskva River. The grounds cover about 390 hectares and border the Nagatinsky Zaton district; the nearest metro station is Kolomenskaya. Kolomenskoye became part of Moscow in the 1960s. The en
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Tsaritsyno is a palace-and-park ensemble and museum reserve in the south of Moscow, in the Southern Administrative Okrug, next to the "Tsaritsyno" and "Orekhovo" metro stations. It was built as a country residence for Catherine the Great on hilly ground cut by ravines; today it is one of the city's
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The Tretyakov Gallery is the largest collection of Russian fine art in Moscow and one of the country's leading art museums. The museum's main historic building stands in the Zamoskvorechye district, at 10 Lavrushinsky Lane, not far from the Kremlin and Red Square. History The gallery counts 185
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The memorial at Totsky Range, in Russia's Orenburg Oblast, is a stele with bells that ring in memory of everyone affected by radiation there. It was erected in 1994 at the epicenter of the atomic bomb blast that shook the site on 14 September 1954, during the "Snezhok" ("Snowball") military exercise
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Gorky Park (Parizhskiy Park Gorkogo) is Moscow's best-known city park, officially the Central Park of Culture and Leisure named after Maxim Gorky. It covers about 120 hectares in the Yakimanka District of the Central Administrative Okrug, on Krymsky Val street next to the Park Kultury metro station,
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VDNKh (the Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy) is Russia's largest exhibition and park complex, located in the north of Moscow. Its 136-hectare grounds combine parks, ponds and dozens of historic pavilions. The complex opened on 1 August 1939 as the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition (VSK
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Poklonnaya Hill is a gentle rise in the Dorogomilovo district of western Moscow, by Kutuzovsky Prospekt. From the 14th century until the present memorial was built, the old Smolensk road ran across it, the route by which foreign envoys entered the city and Russian troops returned from their campaign
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Poklonnaya Hill is a gentle rise in the Dorogomilovo district of western Moscow, by Kutuzovsky Prospekt. From the 14th century until the present memorial was built, the old Smolensk road ran across it, the route by which foreign envoys entered the city and Russian troops returned from their campaign
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The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour stands in central Moscow on Volkhonka Street, next to the Kropotkinskaya metro station and about a mile and a half from Red Square. It is the main cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church and, according to the Guinness Book of Records, the largest Orthodox cathedr
