Moscow - information about the city
Moscow ( /ˈmɒskaʊ/ or /ˈmɒskoʊ/; Russian: Москва́, Moskva; [mɐˈskva] ) is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent. Moscow is the northernmost megacity on Earth (but isn't coldest ), the most populous city in Europe, and the sixth largest city proper in the world. Its population, according to the results of the 2010 Census, is 11,503,501. Based on Forbes 2011, Moscow had 79 billionaires, displacing New York City as the city with the greatest number of billionaires.
Moscow - tourist attractions
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Red Square | Red Square (Russian: Красная площадь, Krásnaja Plóščaď) is a city square in Moscow, Russia. The square separates the Kremlin, the former royal citadel and currently the official residence of the President of Russia, from a historic merchant quarter known as Kitai-gorod. As major streets of Moscow sp... |
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Kazan Cathedral in Moscow | Kazan Cathedral (Russian: Казанский собор), also known as the "Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan", is a Russian Orthodox church located on the northeast corner of Red Square in Moscow, Russia. The current building is a reconstruction of the original church, which was destroyed at the direction of then... |
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State Historical Museum in Moscow | The State Historical Museum (Russian: Государственный исторический музей, Gosudarstvenny istoricheskiy muzyey) of Russia is a museum of Russian history wedged between Red Square and Manege Square in Moscow. Its exhibitions range from relics of prehistoric tribes that lived on the territory of presen... |
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Saint Basil's Cathedral in Moscow | The Cathedral of the Protection of Most Holy Theotokos on the Moat (Russian: Собор Покрова пресвятой Богородицы, что на Рву) or Pokrovsky Cathedral (Russian: Покровский собор) - both are official names used by the Russian Orthodox Church - also known as the Cathedral of St. Vasily the Blessed but po... |
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GUM (Glavnyi Universalnyi Magazin) | GUM (Russian: ГУМ, pronounced as goom, as abbreviation of the Russian: Главный универсальный магазин Glavnyi Universalnyi Magazin, meaning "main universal store") is the name of the main department store in many cities of the former Soviet Union, known as State Department Store (Russian: Государстве... |
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Monument to Minin and Pozharsky in Moscow | The Monument to Minin and Pozharsky (Russian: Па́мятник Ми́нину и Пожа́рскому) is a bronze statue on Red Square in Moscow, Russia, in front of Saint Basil's Cathedral. The statue commemorates Prince Dmitry Pozharsky and Kuzma Minin, who gathered an all-Russian volunteer army and expelled the forces ... |
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Rusakov Workers' Club | Rusakov Workers' Club is a building located in Moscú. It was designed by Konstantin Melnikov as a club for workers. The building was included in the 1998 World Monuments Watch by the World Monuments Fund to call attention to its very poor condition. According to the Fund the roof and foundations ha... |
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Melnikow House | Melnikow House is a building made by Konstantin Melnikov in Moscu. The finest existing specimen of Melnikov's work is his own Krivoarbatsky Lane residence in Moscow, completed in 1927-1929, which consists of two intersecting cylindrical towers decorated with a pattern of hexagonal windows. His flow... |
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Shukhov Radio Tower | The Shukhov radio tower (Russian: Шуховская башня), also known as the Shabolovka tower, is a broadcasting tower in Moscow designed by Vladimir Shukhov. The 160-metre-high free-standing steel structure was built in the period 1920–1922, during the Russian Civil War. It is a hyperboloid structure (hyp... |
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Intourist Garage | Intourist Garage was a parking located in the city of Moscu and built by Konstantin Melnikov. This avant-garde building was built by the brilliant architect Melnikov between 1934 and 1936 to park cars and nowadays only the main facade still remains. The geometrical shapes of the facade are its mai... |
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Relevant data
Geographical coordinates:
55.7522, 37.6156
Approximate population: 0
Approximate population: 0
The oldest constructions
- Cathedral Square in Moscow (1400 - ?, ?)
- Dormition Cathedral in Moscow (1475 - 1479, ?)
- Cathedral of the Annunciation in Moscow (1484 - 1489, ?)
- Spasskaya Tower (? - 1491, ?)
- Moscow Kremlin (? - 1495, ?)
The highest points
- Moscow State University (240 m.)
- Shukhov Radio Tower (160 m.)
- Grand Kremlin Palace (47 m.)
The longest objects
- Grand Kremlin Palace (125 m.)
- Red Square (70 m.)
Objects with the biggest surface
- Grand Kremlin Palace (25 ha.)
Most active architects
- Konstantin Stepanovich Melnikov (3)
- Vladimir Shukhov (2)
- Joseph Bové (1)
- Vladimir Shchuko (1)
- Ivan Martos (1)