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Moscow Vibes

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Metro Stations

A stop on the Moscow Central Circle opened in 2016 beside the Luzhniki Olympic Complex, with a short out-of-station transfer to Sportivnaya…

Metro Stations

A shallow Orange Line station of 1978 with white marble columns, an aluminum cell ceiling and backlit metal panels of stylized flowers,…

Metro Stations

The main Metro hub of the Moscow City skyscraper district, a high-tech glass-and-steel station of 2005 with transfers to deep stations on…

Metro Stations

One of the first ten Moscow Metro stations, opened in 1935 with pylons faced in dark red marble, milk-white globe lamps and…

Metro Stations

A 1938 pylon station on the green line beside the Bolshoi Theatre, opened as Ploshchad Sverdlova, with porcelain medallions along the vault…

Architecture

The avant-garde home Konstantin Melnikov built for himself in 1927 to 1929 from two interlocking cylinders with hexagonal windows, now a museum…

Architecture

A white neoclassical mansion on Vagankovo Hill facing the Kremlin, built in 1784 to 1786 for Pyotr Pashkov and now part of…

Sightseeing

One of the seven Stalinist skyscrapers of Moscow, a 32-level apartment tower finished in 1952 at the meeting of the Moskva and…

Churches

A red-and-white Naryshkin Baroque church built in the early 1690s for the boyar Lev Naryshkin, with two churches on two levels and…

Churches

A large yellow neoclassical parish church at Nikitsky Gate, started in the 1790s for Prince Potemkin, and the church where Alexander Pushkin…