Inside the Moscow Travel Guide

Top Attractions in Moscow

St. Basil's Cathedral

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Possibly the most widely-recognized of Russia's architectural monuments, St. Basil's looms at the southern end of Red Square (Krasnaia Ploshchad') in all its multi-colored, multi-coned glory. The cathedral's real name is the …

Moscow Museum of Modern Art Museum

Sokolniki Palace of Sport

Church of Kosmas and Damian (Tserkov Kos'my i Damiana)

Cathedral of the Assumption (Uspenskii Sobor)

Top Restaurants in Moscow

Starlite Diner

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The Starlite Diner ranks among the most striking of all novelties in modern Moscow—an authentic, allegedly completely American-made chrome-plated American diner that appears like an alien spacecraft among the city's …

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Praga

St. Basil's Cathedral (Sobor Vasiliia Blazhennogo)

U Diadi Giliaia (Uncle Guilly's)

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Moscow, well it's a city of very mixed messages and experiences. There are places to see, Kremlin, some museums/galleries, old (starey) Arbat, restaurants some expensive and very over rated ... more

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Introduction

Moscow is the barometer and nucleus of the changes sweeping through Russia. Nowhere are Russia's contrasts more apparent than here - ancient monasteries and ultra-modern monoliths stand side by side, and 'New Russian' millionaires and poverty-stricken pensioners walk the same streets.

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Not to miss

The Kremlin The stronghold of Russian political power, the Kremlin occupies a roughly triangular plot of land covering little Borovitsky Hill on the north bank of the Moscow River, probably first settled in the 11th century. Today it's enclosed by high walls. Red Square lies outside the east …

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Facts for the Traveller

Population : 8300000 Area : 1035km² Longitude / Latitude : 37.7000007629 / 55.75 Currency : Russian Ruble (RUB) Weights & Measures system : Metric

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Getting there & Getting around

Getting there If you're coming in from an overseas flight, you'll likely fly into either Domodedovo or Sheremetevo-2; there are also additional airports to handle travel to domestic destinations and the ex-Soviet states. There's a network of comfy-enough buses that run to places within about a …

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History

Recent History By the mid-1990s Moscow was very much the vanguard of the 'New Russia', filling up with all the things Russians had expected capitalism to bring but which had barely begun to percolate down to the provinces: banks, stock exchanges, casinos, advertising, BMWs, new shops, hotels, …

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Weather

July and August are the warmest months in Moscow. Summer days are long and can be wet. By the end of November Moscow is frozen most of the time; be warned that serious snow arrives in December and stays until April. Spring arrives fast and with a great thaw, a month or so long, during which people go a …

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Overview

It may be difficult for Westerners to appreciate what an important place Moscow holds in the Russian imagination as a symbol of spiritual and political power. Throughout much of its history the city was known as Holy Moscow, and was valued as a point of pilgrimage not unlike Jerusalem, Mecca, or …

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