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Bad start to the day, as plane is delayed leaving Glasgow. Most British airports are penned in by fog; this is creating a backlog of planes waiting for take-off. Finally get away only 10 minutes late and make some time back in the air. Slight delay landing as we have to wait for a slot. Heathrow is so huge, neither of us can believe just how big it is. |
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I made it to Moscow!! Arrived at 8 in the morning and got checked in hostel and met up with our honcho...shes lovely |
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Nothing makes you want to stretch your legs like five and a half days on a train. We sprung from the wagon amid the unloading of duffel bags full of Chinese cigarettes and cheerfullly navigated the Lenin-lavished Moscow metro. Compared to Chinese characters, cyrillic seemed a modest challege and soon enough we were pronouncing the various signs and commercials along Arbat Street (whether we gathered their meaning was a different story). |
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I took an overnight train from St. Petersburg to Moscow without any incidents. The train left at 11:30 and arrived at 8:00 am. I basically went to sleep. I saw Moscow’s crowded subways at their busiest. It seems to be quite acceptable to push and shove your way on to them like everyone else. The stations are beautiful. Each one looks like a museum or concert hall. They are onto themselves an attraction. Just amazing for subway stations. I had to find my way to get my tickets for the Trans Siberian so I figured this would be a fool’s errand for me but through blind luck more than anything I figured out the subway and map and found the place in record time. |
The Moscow Metro, which spans almost the entire Russian capital, is the world's second most heavily used rapid-transit system. Opened in 1935, it is well known for the ornate design of many of its stations, which contain outstanding examples of socialist realist art.
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Tsytsin Main Moscow Botanical Garden of Academy of Sciences, founded in April 1945, is the largest in Europe.[1][clarification needed] It covers a territory of approximately 3.61 km², bordering the All-Russian Exhibition Center, and contains a live exhibition of more than twenty thousand different species of plants coming from various parts of the world. The garden also has a scientific research laboratory and contains a rosarium with twenty thousand rose bushes, a dendrarium, an oak forest with the average age of the trees exceeding 100 years, and a greenhouse of more than 5000 square meters. Address: Vladykino Metro Station Opening hours: Wednesday to Sunday - 10:00 to 16:00 (20:00 in summer) |
The Moscow Zoo was founded in 1864 by a group of professor-biologists, K.F. Rulje, S.A. Usov and A.P. Bogdanov, from the Moscow State University. In 1919, the zoo was nationalized. In 1922, the ownership was transferred to the city of Moscow and has remained under Moscow's control ever since. The zoo had an area of 10 hectares when it first opened, with 286 animals. In 1926, the zoo was expanded to adjacent lands, increasing the area to 18 hectares. The zoo's original buildings were wooden, built in the old Russian style with intricate wood trims. Address: Barrikadnaya Metro Station Opening hours: Daily from 10:00 to 17:00 (20:00 in summer), closed on Mondays |
State Pushkin Museum of Visual Art. Paintings, sculpture and applied art from ancient history to the present day - art fans can find all this and more at the Pushkin Museum. Address: 12, Ulitsa Volkhonka, Moscow, 121019, Russia Telephone: +7 (495) 203-7998, tour office: +7 (495) 203-7412, +7 (495) 203-9578
Transport: Kropotkinskaya Metro station Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday - 10:00 to 18:00, closed on Mondays |
The State Tretyakov Gallery is the national treasury of Russian fine art and one of the greatest museums in the world. It is located in one of the oldest directs of Moscow – Zamoskvorechye, not far from the Kremlin. Address: 10, Lavrunshkensky Pereulok, Moscow, 119017, Russia
Telephone: +7 (495) 951-1362
Transport: Tretyakovskaya or Novokuznetskaya Metro stations Main gallery opening hours: Daily - 10:00 to 19:00, except Mondays |
Polytechnical Museum is a science museum in Moscow that emphasizes the progress of Soviet technology and science, as well as modern inventions and developments. It was founded in 1872 after the first Russian technical exhibition on the bicentennial anniversary of the birth of Peter the Great. The museum was designed by Ippolit Monighetti and completed in 1877. It is the largest technical museum in Russia, offering a wide array of historical inventions and technological achievements, including humanoid automata of the 18th century and the first Soviet computers. Its collection contains more than 160,000 items in 65 halls including, Chemistry, Mining, Metallurgy, Transport, Energy, Optics, Automation, Computer Engineering, Radio electronics, Communications, and Space exploration. Highlights include the first Achromatic telescope; an early solar microscope, created by German anatomists Johann Nathanael Lieberkühn; an early seismograph created by Boris Borisovich Galitzine; galvanoplastics by Moritz von Jacobi; and early electric lights by Pavel Yablochkov. The automobile exhibit includes a Russo-Balt K12/20 and a GAZ-M20 Pobeda. Address: 3/4, Entrance 1, Novaya Ploshad, Moscow, 101000, Russia
Telephone: +7 (495) 923-0756, +7 (495) 923-4287
Transport: Lubyanka or Kitai Gorod Metro stations Opening hours: Daily - 10:00 to 18:00, except Mondays and the last Thursday of each month.
Extra Services: Kiosk, cinema, public library, internet room, cafe and amusement arcade. |
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