The building of Loan Treasury is a landmark building in Nastasinsky Lane (near Tverskaya street) in Moscow. Made in the neo-Russian style, it is an object of cultural heritage of federal significance. Since 1941, the State Bank of the USSR has been in the…

The Hospice House is an outdated designation for an almshouse, a hospital shelter for the poor. The best known under this name is the Sheremetev Hospital on Bolshaya Sukharevskaya Square in Moscow, based on which the Sklifosovsky Institute of Emergency Care…

One of the architectural monuments of the last quarter of the 19th century is the N.A. Alekseev’s mansion is in the center of Moscow, a ten-minute walk from Tverskaya and Pushkinskaya metro stations. Opposite is the House-Museum of K.S. Stanislavski. The…

Krasny Oktyabr (Red October) is a Russian and Soviet confectionery factory on Bersenevskaya Embankment (between Moskva river and Vodootvodny canal) in Moscow. Built by the German firm “Einem” in the 1890s, after the October Revolution, it was nationalized…

The Moscow Mariinsky School is an educational institution of the Ladies’ Guardianship of the Poor in Moscow in the second half of the 19th – early 20th centuries. The school was founded by Olga Nikolaevna Talyzina, nee Countess Zubova (1803-1882), granddaughter…

The main building of Moscow State University is the central building of the university complex of Moscow State University on Sparrow Hills (Moscow). The tallest of the seven built Stalin skyscrapers. Height – 183.2 meters (with a spire – 240 meters), the…

Panorama Museum “Battle of Borodino” is a historical museum in Moscow dedicated to the Patriotic War of 1812. The museum’s collection includes a panorama of the Battle of Borodino by the artist Franz Roubaud, collections of paintings, drawings, sculptures…

OJSC AMO ZiL, known fully as the Public Joint-Stock Company – Likhachov Plant and more commonly called ZiL (Russian: ЗиЛ), was a major Soviet (Russian) automobile, truck, military vehicle, and heavy equipment manufacturer that was based in Moscow, Russia.…

Nissan Cedric 330 90% of the Buckets Empire Museum’s collection is private cars: owners of rare Toyotas, Nissans, Hondas and Mazdas leave here cars for storage. Toyota Chaser The Buckets Empire community has only one rule: cars for the museum must be over…

The Lomakov Museum of Vintage Cars and Motorcycles is the first auto and motorcycle museum in Moscow (Russia). The first non-state museum in Russia since 1917. Founded in 1987. Opened for tours in 1991. Since 1968, Lomakov enthusiasts have collected a unique…

Automobiles of the World (Motors of October) is the largest automobile museum in Moscow according to his owner Dmitry Oktyabrsky. It was his surname that made the choice of the second name of the museum, and not historical events. About 3,000 exhibits are…

Motors of war in Moscow The world’s largest exposition of wheeled military equipment. More than 150 exhibits from all countries participated in the Second World War. 17 of them exist today in a single copy in the world. Many cars took part in the movies.…

The Victory Museum is a federal state institution of culture of the Russian Federation, the main object of the Victory Memorial Park on Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow. Solemnly opened by the President of the Russian Federation B.N. Yeltsin on May 9, 1995. The…

The Vadim Zadorozhny Museum of Technology (рус. Музей техники Вадима Задорожного) is one of the largest in Europe and the largest in Russia (Moscow) private museum of historical technology. Here you can find the best rare exhibits of the last century: airplanes…

The Central Armed Forces Museum (рус. Центральный Музей Вооруженных сил) also known as the Museum of the Soviet Army, is located in northern Moscow, Russia, near the Red Army Theater and Ekaterininsky Park. The first exposition which showed the military condition…

The Moscow Planetarium is one of the largest in the world and the oldest planetarium in Russia. Located in Moscow near the new territory of the Moscow Zoo, on the Garden Ring. It was built in 1927-1929 according to the project of architects M. O. Barshch…

Museum of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Moscow opened on May 18, 2007. It is located in a house on Kudrinskaya Square (Garden Ring), in an apartment that occupied half of the second floor of the wing of the large city estate of Major General A.B. Kazakov. Here…

The Feodor Ivanovich Chaliapin’s House Museum is a memorial museum in Moscow dedicated to the life and work of the artist Feodor Chaliapin. Founded in 1988 as a branch of the Russian National Museum of Music. The initiator of the opening was the first wife…

Shchusev State Museum of Architecture is a museum of the history of architecture in Moscow. The opening took place in 1964 after the merger of the State Museum of Russian Architecture and the Museum of the USSR Academy of Architecture. In addition to exhibition…

The Polytechnic Museum (Politékh) is one of the oldest scientific and technical museums in the world and is located in Moscow on Lubyanka Square (also New Square). It was founded in 1872 on the initiative of the Society of Natural Science, Anthropology and…

The Armoury Chamber is a Moscow treasury museum, which is part of the Grand Kremlin Palace complex. Organizationally, the museum functions as the Research and Storage Department “Armoury Chamber” of the Moscow Kremlin Museums. Since 1806, the treasury has…