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    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.

    Sight | Reads: 2223 | Date: 15.09.2009 | Comments (0)

    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)
    Sight | Reads: 1415 | Date: 14.09.2009 | Comments (0)

    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
    Sight | Reads: 1718 | Date: 14.09.2009 | Comments (0)

    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
    Sight | Reads: 1606 | Date: 14.09.2009 | Comments (0)

    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
    Sight | Reads: 2115 | Date: 14.09.2009 | Comments (0)

    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.
    Sight | Reads: 1872 | Date: 14.09.2009 | Comments (0)

    Main Department Store or GUM (ГУМ, pronounced as goom, in full Главный Универсальный Магазин, Glavnyi Universalnyi Magazin) is a modern namer for the main department store in many cities of the Soviet Union, known as State Department Store Государственный Универсальный Магазин, Gosudarstvennyi Universalnyi Magazin) in the Soviet times. Similar-named stores were in the some Soviet republics and post-Soviet states. The most famous GUM is a large store in Kitai-gorod of Moscow, facing Red Square. It is actually a shopping mall. Prior to the 1920s the place was known as the Upper Trading Rows.
     Address: Red square
     Telephone: +7(495) 788-4343
     Opening hours: 10am - 10pm
     
    Sight | Reads: 1907 | Date: 14.09.2009 | Comments (0)

    Monument to Minin and Pozharsky is a bronze statue on Red Square of Moscow right in front of Saint Basil's Cathedral.
     Address: Red square
    Sight | Reads: 1888 | Date: 14.09.2009 | Comments (0)

    Although it's known to everyone as St. Basil's, this legendary building is officially called "The Cathedral of the Intercession of the Virgin by the Moat". The popular alternative refers to Basil the Blessed, a Muscovite 'holy fool' who was buried on the site (in the Trinity Cathedral that once stood here) a few years before the present building was erected.
     Opening hours: Daily from 11.00 to 17.00, closed on Tuesdays.
     Address: Red square
    Sight | Reads: 2104 | Date: 14.09.2009 | Comments (0)

    The Tsar Bell is a huge bell on display on the grounds of the Moscow Kremlin. The bell was commissioned by Empress Anna, niece of Peter the Great.
     AddressMoscow Kremlin
    Sight | Reads: 1752 | Date: 14.09.2009 | Comments (0)

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