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Sightseeing

The 140-meter Ferris wheel at VDNKh, the tallest in Europe, with 30 enclosed cabins and views up to 50 kilometers. A ride…

Sightseeing

A free open-air sculpture park on the Moskva River, famous for Soviet-era statues gathered here after 1991 and for hundreds of modern…

Sightseeing

The Tretyakov Gallery's 20th-century building by the Moskva River, with Malevich, Kandinsky, Chagall and Tatlin and a long run of Soviet art.…

Sightseeing

Russia's oldest planetarium, opened in 1929 and rebuilt in 2011, with a large star hall under a dome, an interactive museum, the…

Sightseeing

Russia's first zoo, founded in 1864, in two parts on either side of a street in central Moscow. It has more than…

Neighborhoods

Moscow's business district on a bend of the Moskva River, a cluster of glass skyscrapers including Federation Tower and Mercury City Tower,…

Sightseeing

A long, free garden along the western Kremlin wall, with the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the hourly changing of the guard…

Sightseeing

A colorful wooden complex in Russian fairytale style, with small museums and the large Vernissage souvenir market beside it. The grounds are…

Sightseeing

A Gothic Revival palace complex in the south of Moscow that Catherine the Great ordered and never used, set in a large…

Sightseeing

A former royal estate on a high river bank, with the UNESCO-listed Church of the Ascension, a reconstructed wooden palace and a…