Palaces and most historic buildings of Moscow (51 objects in alphabetical order) Batashev’s manor is a manor complex in central Moscow, located on Taganka, on Shviva Gorka, a vivid monument of Moscow classicism. It is situated at Yauzskaya Street, house 11…

Best museums of Moscow (42 objects in alphabetical order) Andrei Rublev museum collection in the Andronikov Monastery contains works by icon painters of the circle of Dionysius and Andrei Rublev and other masterpieces, including the icon of the Savior Almighty…

Monasteries and churches of Moscow (53 objects in alphabetical order) Andronikov Monastery (Savior Andronikov, Andronikov of the Savior Not Made by Hands) is the oldest monastery in Moscow, founded with the blessing of Metropolitan Alexis of Moscow on the…

Main parks and gardens of Moscow (10 objects in alphabetical order) Alexander Gardens is a park in the Tverskoy district of Moscow, located along the western Kremlin wall, stretching from Red Square to the Kremlin embankment. It was founded in 1812. The park…

TOP 15 hotels in Moscow (in alphabetical order) AZIMUT City Hotel Smolenskaya is a new 23-storey business class hotel in the center of Moscow. The hotel is located in the historic building of the Belgrade-2 Hotel on Smolenskaya Square, not far from Arbat…

Main streets and squares of Moscow (60 objects in alphabetical order) Academician Sakharov Avenue (until 1990 it was unofficially called Novokirovsky Prospekt) is an avenue in the Central Administrative District of Moscow on the territory of the Krasnoselsky…

Main rivers, embankments and bridges of Moscow (50 objects in alphabetical order) Rivers Moskva river – is a middle river in Central Russia, in the Moscow region, Moscow and, for a short distance, in the Smolensk region, the left tributary of the Oka (Volga…

Monuments of Moscow (30 objects in alphabetical order) Fountain of Arts. The launch was timed to coincide with celebrating the 150th anniversary of the nearby Tretyakov Gallery. The authors of the project were sculptors Alexander Rukavishnikov and Philip…

Theaters, concert hall and entertainment in Moscow (42 objects in alphabetical order) Animal Theater, named after Vladimir Durov (until 1982 – “Grandfather Durov’s Corner”), is a Moscow children’s animal theater founded on January 8, 1912, by a trainer, circus…

Skyscrapers and high-rise buildings of Moscow (in alphabetical order) COMECON, also known as the Book House, is a complex of buildings located on the bank of the Moskva river at Novy Arbat, 36 in the Arbat district of the Central Administrative District of Moscow.…

“Stalin skyscrapers” – seven (according to the plans eight) high-rise buildings erected in Moscow in 1947-1957. Sometimes “Stalin skyscrapers” are also called buildings designed in a similar style around the same period in some other cities in the USSR and…

Nizhny Susalny Lane is a street in the center of Moscow in the Basmanny District between Kazakov Street and the Moscow-Kursky Railway station. Among main attractions is the Moscow Gas Plant (a former gas plant in the Basmanny District of the Central Administrative…

The house (estate, palace) of Demidov is a vivid monument of Moscow classicism, built in 1789-1791. Designed by M. F. Kazakov. Located in the east of Moscow, in the Basmanny district. Since the 19th century, the Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography…

The Stakheev mansion (palace, house) is a city estate in Moscow at 14 Novaya Basmannaya Street, building 1. An object of cultural heritage of the peoples of Russia of federal significance. Currently, the building houses the Central House of Children of Railway…

House of Architects (also House on Rostovskaya Embankment) is a residential building located in Moscow on Rostovskaya Embankment, 5. It was built by the architect Shchusev in the post-constructivist style in the 1930s. The building is part of an unrealized…

The complex of buildings of the secretariat of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON), also known as the Book House, is a complex of buildings located on the bank of the Moskva river at Novy Arbat, 36 in the Arbat district of the Central Administrative…

The House of the Government of the Russian Federation (in 1984-1992 – the House of Soviets of the RSFSR, in 1992-1993 – the House of Soviets of the Russian Federation; or the White House) – an administrative building in Moscow on Krasnopresnenskaya Embankment…

The Ukraina Hotel of the Radisson Collection net is a high-rise building, the seventh and last of the Stalinist skyscrapers built in Moscow on Kutuzovsky Prospekt in 1953-1957, designed by architects Arkady Mordvinov, Vyacheslav Oltarzhevsky and chief designer…

The building of the Krigskomissariat (also New Krigskomissariat) is a landmark building in Moscow, located at the address: Central Administrative District, Kosmodamianskaya Embankment on Moskva river, Building 24/1. A cultural heritage site of federal significance.…

The residential building on Kotelnicheskaya Embankment is one of the seven completed Stalinist skyscrapers in Moscow. The building is located near the confluence of the Yauza with the Moscow River in such a way that two side buildings stand along the Kotelnicheskaya…

House on the Embankment (official name – House of Government; also known as the First House of Soviets, the House of the Central Executive Committee and the Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR) is a residential complex in Moscow built in 1931 on the…