Metro Stations
Ploshchad Gagarina MCC Station: Gagarin Monument and Metro Transfer
The only underground station on the Moscow Central Circle, opened in 2016 under Gagarin Square, with a direct transfer to Leninsky Prospekt…
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Kutuzovskaya Metro Station: Surface Hall Under the Avenue and MCC
A surface station on the light blue Filyovskaya Line, the first permanent grade-level Moscow Metro station, with curved side platforms partly covered…
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Luzhniki MCC Station: Sportivnaya Transfer, Luzhniki Complex Access
A stop on the Moscow Central Circle opened in 2016 beside the Luzhniki Olympic Complex, with a short out-of-station transfer to Sportivnaya…
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Botanichesky Sad Metro Station: Flower Panels, Garden Walk and MCC
A shallow Orange Line station of 1978 with white marble columns, an aluminum cell ceiling and backlit metal panels of stylized flowers,…
Metro Stations
Delovoy Tsentr Metro Station: Moscow City Interchange, Lines and Exits
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…
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Krasnye Vorota Metro Station: Fomin’s Hall and Shell Pavilion
One of the first ten Moscow Metro stations, opened in 1935 with pylons faced in dark red marble, milk-white globe lamps and…
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Teatralnaya Metro Station: Porcelain Medallions and Transfers
A 1938 pylon station on the green line beside the Bolshoi Theatre, opened as Ploshchad Sverdlova, with porcelain medallions along the vault…
Architecture
Melnikov House Moscow: Tours, Hexagon Windows and How to Book
The avant-garde home Konstantin Melnikov built for himself in 1927 to 1929 from two interlocking cylinders with hexagonal windows, now a museum…
Architecture
Pashkov House Moscow: Bazhenov’s Hilltop Mansion and How to See It
A white neoclassical mansion on Vagankovo Hill facing the Kremlin, built in 1784 to 1786 for Pyotr Pashkov and now part of…
Sightseeing
Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building Moscow: Seven Sisters Guide
One of the seven Stalinist skyscrapers of Moscow, a 32-level apartment tower finished in 1952 at the meeting of the Moskva and…
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