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Moscow City Day: Festivals, Fireworks and Road Closures in September
The city's birthday, marked on an early-September weekend with street fairs, concerts, district festivals, a pedestrian Tverskaya Street and fireworks in the…
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Trinity Day in Moscow: Orthodox Pentecost, Birch Branches and Services
The Orthodox feast of Pentecost, fifty days after Easter, when churches are decorated with birch branches and greenery and priests wear green…
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Russia Day in Moscow: History, Events and Holiday Impact
A Russian public holiday on 12 June marking the 1990 Declaration of State Sovereignty, with a day off, concerts and events around…
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Victory Day in Moscow: Parade, Fireworks and Visitor Tips
A Russian public holiday on 9 May that commemorates the end of the Great Patriotic War, with a military parade on Red…
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Orthodox Easter in Moscow: Paschal Vigil, Traditions and Dates
The Orthodox Pascha, a movable Sunday feast ending Great Lent, with the midnight Paschal Vigil at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour,…
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Cosmonautics Day in Moscow: Gagarin, VDNKh and the Space Museum
The 12 April commemoration of Yuri Gagarin's first crewed space flight in 1961, with ceremonies, the titanium Monument to the Conquerors of…
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Maslenitsa (Butter Week) in Moscow: Blini, Bonfires and Folk Games
The week before Orthodox Great Lent, a folk festival of blini, games, songs and the burning of a straw effigy that ends…
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Epiphany Ice Swimming in Moscow: Where, When and How It Works
The Orthodox Epiphany tradition of plunging three times into blessed ice water, held every 18 to 19 January at dozens of official…
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Orthodox Christmas in Moscow: Services, Traditions and Transport
The Russian Orthodox Christmas on 7 January, with the Christmas Eve liturgy at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, night services in…
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New Year in Moscow: Red Square, Kremlin Chimes and Holidays
Russia's main winter holiday, from the Kremlin chimes at midnight on 31 December to the Orthodox Christmas holidays on 7 January, with…
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Arbat Architecture and Literature Walking Tour
Explore Moscow's Arbat district on a walking tour connecting neoclassical architecture, Russian music, Asian art, theatre, experimental design and Pushkin's former home.
Bulgakov’s Moscow: From Patriarch’s Ponds to Theatre Square
A literary walk from the Bulgakov Museum and Patriarch's Ponds past the church where Pushkin married to the Maly Theatre and Theatre…
Along the Moskva: From Patriarshy Bridge to Neskuchny Garden
A riverside walk from the pedestrian Patriarshy Bridge past the Muzeon sculpture park and Krymsky Bridge to Gorky Park and the quiet…
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