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Welcome to your journey through the most beautiful sights in Moscow, Russia! Whether you want to discover the city's historical treasures or experience its modern highlights, you'll find everything your heart desires here. Be inspired by our selection and plan your unforgettable adventure in Moscow. Dive into the diversity of this fascinating city and discover everything it has to offer.

Sightseeing Tours in Moscow

1. MOST

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MOST Театр Мост / CC BY-SA 3.0

The MOST Theater is a state budgetary institution of culture in the city of Moscow. It was created on the basis of the Student Theater of Moscow State University in 1999 by a decree of the Moscow Government at the request of the All-Russian Theater Society, in fact, it began to work in June 2000.

Wikipedia: МОСТ (театр) (RU), Website

2. Bolshoi Theatre

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The Bolshoi Theatre is a historic opera house in Moscow, Russia, originally designed by architect Joseph Bové. Before the October Revolution it was a part of the Imperial Theatres of the Russian Empire along with Maly Theatre in Moscow and a few theatres in Saint Petersburg.

Wikipedia: Bolshoi Theatre (EN), Website

3. Ф. М. Достоевскому

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Ф. М. Достоевскому

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, sometimes transliterated as Dostoyevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist. Numerous literary critics regard him as one of the greatest novelists in all of world literature, as many of his works are considered highly influential masterpieces.

Wikipedia: Fyodor Dostoevsky (EN)

4. Конфуцию

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Конфуцию

Confucius, born Kong Qiu (孔丘), was a Chinese philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period who is traditionally considered the paragon of Chinese sages, as well as the first teacher in China to advocate for mass education. Much of the shared cultural heritage of the Sinosphere originates in the philosophy and teachings of Confucius. His philosophical teachings, called Confucianism, emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice, kindness, sincerity, and a ruler's responsibilities to lead by virtue.

Wikipedia: Confucius (EN)

5. Victor Hugo

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Victor Hugo

Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo, sometimes nicknamed the Ocean Man, was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms.

Wikipedia: Victor Hugo (EN)

6. Alexei Navalny

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Alexei Anatolyevich Navalny was a Russian opposition leader, lawyer, anti-corruption activist and political prisoner who organised anti-government demonstrations and ran for office to advocate reforms against corruption in Russia as well as President Vladimir Putin and his government. Navalny founded the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) in 2011. He was recognised by Amnesty International as a prisoner of conscience and was awarded the Sakharov Prize for his work on human rights.

Wikipedia: Alexei Navalny (EN)

7. Т-72

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The T-72 is a family of Soviet main battle tanks that entered production in 1971. The T-72 was a development based on the T-64 using thought and design of the previous Object 167M. About 25,000 T-72 tanks have been built, and refurbishment has enabled many to remain in service for decades. It has been widely exported and has seen service in 40 countries and in numerous conflicts. The Russian T-90 introduced in 1992 and the Chinese Type 99 are further developments of the T-72. Production and development of various modernized T-72 models continues today.

Wikipedia: T-72 (EN)

8. Московским пожарным

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Московским пожарным

The Moscow Metro is a metro system serving the Russian capital of Moscow as well as the neighbouring cities of Krasnogorsk, Reutov, Lyubertsy and Kotelniki in Moscow Oblast. Opened in 1935 with one 11-kilometre (6.8 mi) line and 13 stations, it was the first underground railway system in the Soviet Union.

Wikipedia: Moscow Metro (EN)

9. Х. Марти

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Х. Марти

José Julián Martí Pérez was a Cuban nationalist, poet, philosopher, essayist, journalist, translator, professor, and publisher, who is considered a Cuban national hero because of his role in the liberation of his country from Spain. He was also an important figure in Latin American literature. He was very politically active and is considered an important philosopher and political theorist. Through his writings and political activity, he became a symbol of Cuba's bid for independence from the Spanish Empire in the 19th century, and is referred to as the "Apostle of Cuban Independence". From adolescence on, he dedicated his life to the promotion of liberty, political independence for Cuba, and intellectual independence for all Spanish Americans; his death was used as a cry for Cuban independence from Spain by both the Cuban revolutionaries and those Cubans previously reluctant to start a revolt.

Wikipedia: José Martí (EN)

10. Владимир Высоцкий

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Vladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky was a Soviet singer-songwriter, poet, and actor who had an immense and enduring effect on Soviet culture. He became widely known for his unique singing style and for his lyrics, which featured social and political commentary in often-humorous street jargon. He was also a prominent stage- and screen-actor. Though the official Soviet cultural establishment largely ignored his work, he was remarkably popular during his lifetime and has exerted significant influence on many of Russia's musicians and actors.

Wikipedia: Vladimir Vysotsky (EN)

11. Лев Яшин

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Лев Яшин Kroon, Ron for Anefo / CC BY-SA 3.0 nl

Lev Ivanovich Yashin was a Soviet professional footballer considered by many to be the greatest goalkeeper in the history of the game. He was known for his athleticism, positioning, imposing presence in goal, and acrobatic reflex saves. He was also deputy chairman of the Football Federation of the Soviet Union.

Wikipedia: Lev Yashin (EN)

12. Ф. Э. Дзержинскому

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Ф. Э. Дзержинскому RIA Novosti / РИА Новости / CC BY-SA 3.0

Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, nicknamed "Iron Felix", was a Soviet revolutionary and politician of Polish origin. From 1917 until his death in 1926, he led the first two Soviet secret police organizations, the Cheka and the OGPU, establishing state security organs for the Bolshevik regime. He was a key architect of the Red Terror and de-Cossackization.

Wikipedia: Felix Dzerzhinsky (EN)

13. В. В. Маяковскому

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В. В. Маяковскому

Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky was a Soviet Russian poet, playwright, artist, and actor. During his early, pre-Revolution period leading into 1917, Mayakovsky became renowned as a prominent figure of the Russian Futurist movement. He co-signed the Futurist manifesto, A Slap in the Face of Public Taste (1913), and wrote such poems as "A Cloud in Trousers" (1915) and "Backbone Flute" (1916). Mayakovsky produced a large and diverse body of work during the course of his career: he wrote poems, wrote and directed plays, appeared in films, edited the art journal LEF, and produced agitprop posters in support of the Communist Party during the Russian Civil War of 1917–1922.

Wikipedia: Vladimir Mayakovsky (EN)

14. Сергей Есенин

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Сергей Есенин

Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin, sometimes spelled as Esenin, was a Russian lyric poet. He is one of the most popular and well-known Russian poets of the 20th century. One of his narratives was "lyrical evocations of and nostalgia for the village life of his childhood – no idyll, presented in all its rawness, with an implied curse on urbanisation and industrialisation".

Wikipedia: Sergei Yesenin (EN)

15. Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception

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The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Holy Virgin Mary is a neo-Gothic Catholic church at Moscow's center, that serves as the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Moscow. Located in the Central Administrative Okrug, it is one of three Catholic churches in Moscow and the largest in Russia.

Wikipedia: Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception (Moscow) (EN), Website

16. Jury Dolgoruky

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The Statue of Yuriy Dolgorukiy is an equestrian statue which commemorates the founding of Moscow in 1147 by Yuriy Dolgorukiy. Dolgorukiy was the Grand Prince of the Kievan Rus' (Kiev) and a member of the Rurik dynasty. On 6 June 1954, the statue was erected on Soviet Square, located in front of the Mossoviet building. The sculptors were Sergei Mikhailovich Orlov, A. P. Antropov, and Nicholay Lvovich Shtamm. The architectural design was by Viktor Semenovich Andreyev. The statue replaced the Monument to the Soviet Constitution, which had been demolished in 1941.

Wikipedia: Statue of Yuriy Dolgorukiy, Moscow (EN)

17. Н. И. Вавилову

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Н. И. Вавилову

Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov was a Russian and Soviet agronomist, botanist and geneticist who identified the centers of origin of cultivated plants. He devoted his life to the study and improvement of wheat, maize and other cereal crops that sustain the global population.

Wikipedia: Nikolai Vavilov (EN)

18. Могилы Мигули и Окуджавы

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Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava was a Soviet and Russian poet, writer, musician, novelist, and singer-songwriter of Georgian-Armenian ancestry. He was one of the founders of the Soviet genre called "author song", or "guitar song", and the author of about 200 songs, set to his own poetry. His songs are a mixture of Russian poetic and folk song traditions and the French chansonnier style represented by such contemporaries of Okudzhava as Georges Brassens. Though his songs were never overtly political, the freshness and independence of Okudzhava's artistic voice presented a subtle challenge to Soviet cultural authorities, who were thus hesitant for many years to give him official recognition.

Wikipedia: Bulat Okudzhava (EN)

19. Vasily Zhukovsky

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Vasily Zhukovsky

Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky was the foremost Russian poet of the 1810s and a leading figure in Russian literature in the first half of the 19th century. He held a high position at the Romanov court as tutor to the Grand Duchess Alexandra Feodorovna and later to her son, the future Tsar-Liberator Alexander II.

Wikipedia: Vasily Zhukovsky (EN)

20. Church of the Ascension

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The Church of the Ascension of the Lord in Kolomenskoye is an Orthodox church in the Nagatinsky Zaton district of Moscow, in the former village of Kolomenskoye. It is a masterpiece of world architecture, the first stone tented temple in Russia.

Wikipedia: Церковь Вознесения Господня в Коломенском (RU)

21. People's Friendship Fountain

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The Druzhba Rodov fountain is the main fountain and one of the main symbols of VDNH. It was created for the opening of VDNKh in 1954 according to the project of Konstantin Topuridze and Grigory Konstantinovsky. It is located on the Central Alley, on the Friendship of Peoples Square, next to the Main Pavilion. The fountain has been closed for restoration since the beginning of autumn 2018, reopened in April 2019.

Wikipedia: Дружба народов (фонтан) (RU)

22. С. Е. Савицкой

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С. Е. Савицкой Mikhail Klimentyev / Russian Presidential Press and Information Office / CC BY 4.0

Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya is a Russian former aviator and Soviet cosmonaut who flew aboard Soyuz T-7 in 1982, becoming the second woman in space. On her 1984 Soyuz T-12 mission she became the first woman to fly to space twice, and the first woman to perform a spacewalk.

Wikipedia: Svetlana Savitskaya (EN)

23. Museum of Vladimir Mayakovsky

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Museum of Vladimir Mayakovsky

The State Museum of Vladimir Mayakovsky-the Museum-Quarter of the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, founded in 1937 on the initiative of Lily Brik as a library-museum. Initially located in Gendricov Lane, where the poet lived with Lily and Osip Briks from 1926 to 1930. In the afternoon of April 14, 1930, Mayakovsky committed suicide. In 1972, the museum was moved to the former communal apartment under the 12th floor number in the Lubyansky passage, where it was completely rebuilt. In 1989, according to the project of the museums of Taras Polyakov, the exposition was modernized in the constructivist style, a four-story exhibition space was created according to the project of architect A.V. Bokov, dedicated not only by the poet’s memory, but also to the Russian avant-garde.

Wikipedia: Государственный музей В. В. Маяковского (RU), Website

24. Worker and Kolkhoz Woman

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Worker and Kolkhoz Woman

Worker and Kolkhoz Woman is a sculpture of two figures with a sickle and a hammer raised over their heads. The concept and compositional design belong to the architect Boris Iofan. It is 24.5 metres (78 feet) high, made from stainless steel by Vera Mukhina for the 1937 World's Fair in Paris, and subsequently moved to Moscow. The sculpture is an example of socialist realism in an Art Deco aesthetic. The worker holds aloft a hammer and the kolkhoz woman a sickle to form the hammer and sickle symbol.

Wikipedia: Worker and Kolkhoz Woman (EN)

25. Moscow State Puppet Theatre

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Moscow State Puppet Theatre Идея: Сергей Владимирович Образцов (1901—1992); графика Андрей Дмитриевич Гончаров (1903—1979) / Добросовестное использование

The State Academic Central Puppet Theater named after Sergei Vladimirovich Obraztsov (GATTC) is the world's largest puppet theater. It is located in Moscow in house No 3 on Sadovaya-Samotechnaya Street. He is a member of the International Union of Puppet Theater Workers UNIMA. The emblem of the theater is a hand with a ball on the index finger.

Wikipedia: Театр кукол имени С. В. Образцова (RU), Website

26. Андрей Миронов

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Андрей Миронов / Fair use

Andrei Aleksandrovich Mironov was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor who played lead roles in some of the most popular Soviet films, such as The Diamond Arm, Beware of the Car and Twelve Chairs. Mironov was also a popular singer.

Wikipedia: Andrei Mironov (actor) (EN)

27. Alexander Pushkin

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Alexander Pushkin

The monument to Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin, the work of Alexander Mikhailovich Opekushin, was erected in Moscow on June 6 (18), 1880. The monument is made of bronze, originally it was installed at the beginning of Tverskoy Boulevard on Strastnaya Square. In 1950, the monument was moved to the opposite side of the square.

Wikipedia: Памятник А. С. Пушкину (Москва, Пушкинская площадь) (RU)

28. Театр на Юго-Западе

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“Theater in the South-West” is the State Theater in Moscow. Located on Vernadsky Avenue. Founded in 1977 by the artistic director and director Valery Belyakovich. Since 2011, the artistic director of the theater has been Oleg Leushin.

Wikipedia: Театр на Юго-Западе (RU), Website

29. The Yesenin Museum of Moscow

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The Moscow State Museum of Sergei Yesenin is a museum dedicated to the life and work of the poet Sergei Yesenin. It is located in house No 24 on Bolshoy Strochenovsky Lane, where the poet lived and was registered from 1911 to 1918. The building was badly damaged during a fire in 1992, but was rebuilt in 1994.

Wikipedia: Московский государственный музей С. А. Есенина (RU), Vk, Facebook, Instagram, Website, Youtube

30. Gorky Museum

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Gorky Museum shakko / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Gorky Museum is an architectural landmark of the "Moderne" style, the Russian term for Art Nouveau. It was built in Moscow in 1900–02 by the architect Fyodor Schechtel. It is also known as the Ryabouchinsky House, for the young Russian industrialist and art collector who built it. After the Russian Revolution in 1917, the Ryabouchinsky family emigrated to France. In 1931 the Soviet government offered the house to the writer Maxim Gorky and his family. It was his home until his death in 1936. The widow of Gorky's son continued to live in the house until her death in 1965. It then became the Gorky Museum, dedicated to his life and work. It is located in the historic center of Moscow, at 6 Malaya Nikitskaya. Admission is free.

Wikipedia: Gorky Museum (EN)

31. В. Р. Вильямсу

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В. Р. Вильямсу

Vasily Robertovich Vilyams was a Russian and Soviet soil scientist and agronomist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1931), the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR (1929), and the All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences (1935). One of the founders of agronomic soil science.

Wikipedia: Вильямс, Василий Робертович (RU)

32. Виктор Тихонов

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Viktor Vasilievich Tikhonov is a Russian former professional ice hockey forward. Tikhonov was originally selected 28th overall in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft, by the Phoenix Coyotes. After several years in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Coyotes, Tikhonov moved to the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) in Russia, where he spent four years with SKA St. Petersburg. In 2015, he returned to the NHL, signing a contract with the Chicago Blackhawks, appearing in 11 games for them before he was claimed on waivers by the Coyotes.

Wikipedia: Viktor Tikhonov (born 1988) (EN)

33. Музей кино

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Музей кино Лариса Солоницына / CC BY 3.0

The State Central Museum of Cinema is a Russian state institution engaged in active educational and scientific activities in the field of film history and theory. It was founded in March 1989 on the basis of the reorganized Museum Department of the All-Union Bureau for the Promotion of Cinematography. From the moment of its opening until November 2005, the Museum of Cinema was located in the Cinema Center on Krasnaya Presnya, where collections reflecting the film culture of Russia throughout the history of its development were created, regular screenings of masterpieces of world cinema, lectures by film scholars, philosophers, critics, directors, festivals of Russian and foreign cinema, seminars on theoretical problems of cinema were held.

Wikipedia: Государственный центральный музей кино (RU), Vk, Facebook, Instagram, Website

34. В. В. Лебедеву

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В. В. Лебедеву

Valentin Vitalyevich Lebedev is a former Soviet cosmonaut who made two flights into space. His stay aboard the Space Station Salyut 7 with Anatoly Berezovoy in 1982, which lasted 211 days, was recorded in the Guinness Book of Records.

Wikipedia: Valentin Lebedev (EN)

35. Игорь Тальков

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Игорь Тальков Leo Medvedev/Лев Леонидович Медведев / CC BY-SA 4.0

Igor Vladimirovich Talkov, was a Russian rock singer-songwriter and film actor. His breakthrough came in 1987 with the David Tukhmanov-composed song Clean Ponds which was an instant hit. Talkov's lyrics are mostly about love, but also contain social critique of the Soviet regime. He was shot dead in 1991.

Wikipedia: Igor Talkov (EN)

36. Monument to the Conquerors of Space

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Monument to the Conquerors of Space Aleksandr Nevezhin / Александр Невежин / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Monument to the Conquerors of Space is a giant obelisk erected in Moscow in 1964 to celebrate achievements of the Soviet people in space exploration. It depicts a starting rocket that rises on its exhaust plume.

Wikipedia: Monument to the Conquerors of Space (EN)

37. Церковь Ризоположения

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The Church of the Placing of the Robe of the Most Holy Theotokos in Blachernae in Leonovo is a parish Orthodox church in the Rostokino district of Moscow, on the territory of the former village of Leonovo. It belongs to the Trinity Deanery of the Moscow Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Wikipedia: Храм Ризоположения в Леонове (RU)

38. Donskoy Monastery

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Donskoy Monastery is a major monastery in Moscow, founded in 1591 in commemoration of Moscow's deliverance from the threat of an invasion by the Crimean Khan Kazy-Girey. Commanding a highway to the Crimea, the monastery was intended to defend southern approaches to the Moscow Kremlin.

Wikipedia: Donskoy Monastery (EN), Website

39. И. В. Мичурину

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И. В. Мичурину

Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin was a Russian practitioner of selection to produce new types of crop plants, Honorable Member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and academician of the Lenin All-Union Academy of Agriculture.

Wikipedia: Ivan Michurin (biologist) (EN)

40. Людмила Пахомова

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Людмила Пахомова

Lyudmila Alekseyevna Pakhomova was a Russian ice dancer who competed for the Soviet Union. With her husband Aleksandr Gorshkov, she was the 1976 Olympic champion, one of the oldest female figure skating Olympic champions.

Wikipedia: Lyudmila Pakhomova (EN)

41. Moscow Youth Theater

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The MTYuZ Theater is a theater in the Tverskoy district of Moscow. Founded in 1920 as the First State Theater for Children, in 1941 it was merged with another Moscow Youth Theater. In 1970 he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, and in 80 he received the Lenin Komsomol Prize.

Wikipedia: Московский театр юного зрителя (RU), Website

42. Московский музей анимации

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The Moscow Animation Museum is the first international animation museum in Russia, opened in 2006 by the staff of the Soyuzmultfilm film studio. The collection of exhibits is associated with the history of the development of animation and animation in Russia and abroad. Currently, the main exposition is located on the territory of the Izmailovo Kremlin, and the museum also owns the pavilion of VDNH "House of Culture", closed for repairs until 2018. The founder is the animator Leonid Aronovich Shvartsman. The director of the museum is Larisa Evgenievna Vyborgova.

Wikipedia: Московский музей анимации (RU)

43. В. Н. Леонов

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В. Н. Леонов Unknown / Fair use

Viktor Nikolayevich Leonov was a Soviet Navy officer and twice Hero of the Soviet Union. Considered a legend in the Soviet era after the war, he frequently gave speeches to Communist organizations about the war, but he became obscure after the fall of the Soviet Union.

Wikipedia: Viktor Leonov (EN)

44. храм Воскресения Христова

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The Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Sokolniki is an Orthodox church located in the Sokolniki district of the Eastern Administrative District of Moscow. It belongs to the Resurrection Deanery of the Moscow Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Wikipedia: Храм Воскресения Христова в Сокольниках (RU)

45. GULAG History Museum

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The State Museum of History of the Gulag is a museum in Moscow dedicated to the memory of the victims of communist repression, founded in 2001. The first permanent exhibition was located in the house on Petrovka, since 2015 the museum has been located in a building in the 1st Samotechny Lane.

Wikipedia: Музей истории ГУЛАГа (RU), Website

46. Лётчица Е.М.Руднева

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Лётчица Е.М.Руднева

Yevgeniya Maksimovna Rudneva was the head navigator of the 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment posthumously awarded Hero of the Soviet Union. Prior to World War II she was an astronomer, the head of the Solar Department of the Moscow branch of the Astronomical-Geodesical Society of the USSR.

Wikipedia: Yevgeniya Rudneva (EN)

47. Peter the Great Statue

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Peter the Great StatueJorge Láscar from Melbourne, Australia / CC BY 2.0

The Peter the Great Statue is a 98-metre-high (322 ft) monument to Peter the Great, located at the western confluence of the Moskva River and the Vodootvodny Canal in central Moscow, Russia. It was designed by the Georgian designer Zurab Tsereteli to commemorate 300 years of the Russian Navy, which Peter the Great established. It was erected in 1997 and It weighs around 1,000 tons containing 600 tons of stainless steel, bronze and copper.

Wikipedia: Peter the Great Statue (EN)

48. Государственный Биологический музей им. К.А. Тимирязева

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The State Biological Museum named after K. A. Timiryazev in Moscow is a natural science museum founded on April 24, 1922. Since 1934, the museum has been located within the walls of an architectural monument of federal significance - a complex of buildings of the former Museum of Russian Antiquities of Pyotr Ivanovich Shchukin, built in the Russian style in 1892-1915 in the possession of Shchukin at Malaya Gruzinskaya Street, 15, bldg. 1, 2, 3, 7.

Wikipedia: Биологический музей имени К. А. Тимирязева (RU), Website

49. Содружество актёров Таганки

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The Taganka Actors Ensemble is a Moscow drama and comedy theater that existed from 1993 to 2021. It was founded on April 22, 1993 by the decision of the Moscow City Council of People's Deputies. The theater troupe included 36 actors led by Nikolai Gubenko and part of the employees of the Taganka Theater of Yuri Lyubimov.

Wikipedia: Содружество актёров Таганки (RU), Website

50. Hilton Moscow Leningradskaya

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The Hilton Moscow Leningradskaya is one of Moscow's Seven Sisters, skyscrapers built in the early 1950s in the Stalinist neoclassical style. Stalinist neoclassical architecture mixes the Russian neoclassical style with the style of American skyscrapers of the 1930s. A main element of Stalinist neoclassicism is its use of socialist realism art. The hotel, completed in 1954, was designed to be the finest luxury hotel in Moscow.

Wikipedia: Hilton Moscow Leningradskaya (EN), Facebook, Instagram, Website

51. Ризположенская церковь

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Ризположенская церковьLodo27 from Moscow, Russia / CC BY-SA 3.0

The temple in honor of the position of the honest rice of the Lord in the success of the Sobor in Moscow on the Donskoy - the Orthodox Church in the Donskoy district of Moscow. Refers to the Don deanery of the Moscow diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Wikipedia: Храм Ризоположения на Донской (RU)

52. Danilov Monastery

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Danilov Monastery is a walled monastery on the right bank of the Moskva River in Moscow. Since 1983, it has functioned as the headquarters of the Russian Orthodox church and the official residence of the Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus'.

Wikipedia: Danilov Monastery (EN), Website

53. Церковь Софии и Татьяны

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The Church of the Holy Martyrs Sophia and Tatiana at the Filatov Children's Clinical Hospital No 13 is an Orthodox church in the Presnensky district of Moscow. It belongs to the Central Deanery of the Moscow Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Wikipedia: Храм Святых Мучениц Софии и Татианы (RU)

54. Narkomfin Building

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Narkomfin Building

The Narkomfin Building is a block of flats at 25, Novinsky Boulevard, in the Central district of Moscow, Russia. Conceived as a "transitional type of experimental house", it is a renowned example of Constructivist architecture and avant-garde housing design.

Wikipedia: Narkomfin building (EN)

55. М. А. Эсамбаев

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Makhmud Alisultanovich Esambayev was a Soviet and Chechen dancer, ballet master, choreographer and actor. Makhmud was regarded as one of the most famous dancers of the Soviet Union. People's Artist of the USSR (1974) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1984).

Wikipedia: Makhmud Esambayev (EN)

56. Russian Garmonika Museum

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Russian Garmonika Museum

The A. Mirek Museum of Russian Harmonica is a cultural institution dedicated to the history of the development and existence of musical instruments of the harmonica family in Russia. It was founded by Alfred Martinovich Mirek, Doctor of Art History, Professor, Honored Artist of Russia. The museum is one of only four of its kind in the world.

Wikipedia: Музей русской гармоники А. Мирека (RU)

57. Леонид Филатов

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Леонид Филатов S. Ivanov / Fair use

Leonid Alekseyevich Filatov was a Soviet and Russian actor, director, poet, pamphleteer, who shot to fame while a member of the troupe of the Taganka Theatre under director Yury Lyubimov. Despite severe illness that haunted him in the 1990s, he received many awards, including the Russian Federation State Prize and People's Artist of Russia in 1996.

Wikipedia: Leonid Filatov (EN)

58. Подпольная типография 1905-1906 гг.

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Подпольная типография 1905-1906 гг.

The Museum "Underground Printing House 1905-1906" is a historical museum in Moscow, a branch of the State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia. It was opened in 1924. It is a rare monument to the political history of Russia during the First Russian Revolution of 1905-1907, and is devoted mainly to the illegal activities of the RSDLP party during these years.

Wikipedia: Подпольная типография 1905—1906 гг. (RU)

59. Музей музыкальной культуры

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Музей музыкальной культуры shakko / CC BY-SA 3.0

Federal State Budgetary Institution of Culture "Russian National Museum of Music", a museum association that includes branches throughout Moscow. The main building is located on Fadeeva Street, 4. At the beginning of 1995, by decree of the President of the Russian Federation, the museum was included in the State Code of Especially Valuable Objects of Cultural Heritage of the Peoples of the Russian Federation.

Wikipedia: Российский национальный музей музыки (RU)

60. Theatre of Estrada

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Theatre of Estrada ГБУК г. Москвы «Московский театр эстрады» / Добросовестное использование

The Moscow State Variety Theater is a Moscow theater founded in 1954. Since 1961, it has been located in the Government House at 20/2 Bersenevskaya Embankment. The auditorium is designed for 1300 people. It hosted performances by pop artists, performances of both the theater itself and other troupes. Closed in 2020 for repairs, the theater is scheduled to open in 2022.

Wikipedia: Московский театр эстрады (RU)

61. Moscow Choral Synagogue

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The Moscow Choral Synagogue is one of the main synagogues in Russia and in the former Soviet Union. It is located in central Basmanny District at 10 Bolshoy Spasogolinischevsky Lane, close to Kitai-Gorod Metro station. Chief Rabbi Adolf Shayevich is its spiritual head.

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62. Московский театр кукол

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Московский театр кукол Пресс-служба Правительства Москвы / CC BY 4.0

The Moscow Puppet Theater is the first of the currently operating state puppet theaters in Moscow and one of the oldest in Russia. It was founded in 1929 in the State Publishing House system by director Viktor Shvemberger. The theater uses various puppet techniques: from ancient puppets to large-sized frame puppets, conducts musical performances with the participation of a live orchestra. His repertoire also includes "performances with closed eyes", the events of which unfold in complete darkness, and all the action is based on sounds, smells, tactile sensations, which makes the performance accessible to blind people. The theater is the base site of the Moscow International Festival of Puppet Theaters.

Wikipedia: Московский театр кукол (RU), Website

63. Бархат амурский Phellodendron amurense Rupr.

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Phellodendron amurense is a species of tree in the family Rutaceae, commonly called the Amur cork tree. It is a major source of huáng bò, one of the 50 fundamental herbs used in traditional Chinese medicine. The Ainu people used this plant, called shikerebe-ni, as a painkiller. It is known as hwangbyeok in Korean and (キハダ) kihada in Japanese.

Wikipedia: Phellodendron amurense (EN)

64. Михаил Глузский

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Михаил Глузский Mosfilm / Fair use

Mikhail Andreyevich Gluzsky was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor. He starred in the 1972 film, Monologue, which was entered into the 1973 Cannes Film Festival. An actor in more than 130 films between his film debut 1939 and death in 2001, he was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1983.

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65. Бенефис

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Бенефис / Общественное достояние

The Moscow Drama Theater "Benefit" under the direction of Anna Nerovnaya is a Moscow theater founded in 1987 as an experimental theater studio shortly after its organizer Anna Nerovnaya was awarded the prize for the best director of contemporary drama at the International Theater Festival "Lefortovo Games - 87". The initiative to create a repertory theater in Novye Cheryomushki came from the Executive Committee of Culture of the district. At the same time, a room was allocated at 23 Garibaldi Street, bldg. 4. In 1991, the theater received the status of a state theater and since then it has been funded by the Moscow government.

Wikipedia: Бенефис (театр) (RU), Website

66. Знаменский монастырь

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The Znamensky Monastery in the Old Tsar's Court is a former monastery in Moscow. It was founded in 1629-1631. It was consecrated in the name of the Icon of the Mother of God "of the Sign". After 1923, the monastery was closed. The monastery cathedral has survived to this day. The buildings of the monastery are located at 8-10 Varvarka Street.

Wikipedia: Знаменский монастырь (Москва) (RU)

67. Sign of the Mother of God

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The Church of the Icon of the Mother of God "Znamenie" on Sheremetev Dvor is an Orthodox church in the Arbat district of Moscow, erected as a house in the late XVII century in the style of Moscow Baroque on the territory of the estate of the boyar Lev Naryshkin.

Wikipedia: Церковь иконы Божией Матери «Знамение» на Шереметевом дворе (RU), Website

68. Церковь Троицы Живоначальной

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The temple of the Life -Giving Trinity on Shabolovka is an Orthodox church in the area of ​​Yakimanka of the city of Moscow. Refers to the Moskvoretsky deanery of the Moscow diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Wikipedia: Храм Троицы Живоначальной на Шаболовке (RU), Website

69. Chapaevsky Park

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Chapaevsky Park

Chapaevsky Park is a small park in the Khoroshevsky District of the Northern Administrative District of Moscow. It is located near Leningradsky Prospekt at the intersection with Chapaevsky Lane. The area of the park is 6 hectares. Chapaevsky Park is a cultural heritage site of regional significance.

Wikipedia: Чапаевский парк (RU)

70. Memorial Museum of Astronautics

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The Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics, also known as the Memorial Museum of Astronautics or Memorial Museum of Space Exploration, is a museum in Moscow, Russia, dedicated to space exploration. It is located within the base of the Monument to the Conquerors of Space in the north-east of the city. The museum contains a wide variety of Soviet and Russian space-related exhibits and models which explore the history of flight; astronomy; space exploration; space technology; and space in the arts. According to the Russian tourist board, the museum's collection holds approximately 85,000 different items and receives approximately 300,000 visitors yearly.

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71. Н. А. Доллежалю

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Nikolay Antonovich Dollezhal was a Russian engineer of Czech origin whose career was spent in the former Soviet program of nuclear weapons and later played an influential role in developing the commercial nuclear power industry of Russia.

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72. Особняк С. П. Рябушинского

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Ryabushinsky Mansion is a city estate built by architect Fyodor Schechtel for entrepreneur Stepan Ryabushinsky in 1900-1903. It is one of the most representative examples of early Art Nouveau in Russian architecture. Since 1965, the building has housed the Gorky Museum-Apartment.

Wikipedia: Особняк С. П. Рябушинского (RU)

73. Ступа преумножения счастья и добродетели

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The Tower of Enlightenment of the Tubeden Shedubling Temple Complex is a religious building erected on the territory of the future Buddhist temple complex Tubden Shedubling in Moscow, which will be part of the Spiritual and Educational Complex of Russian Traditional Religions in Otradnoye. This is a capital three-level structure about 15 meters high, built for year-round, but episodic religious worship.

Wikipedia: Ступа Просветления в Отрадном (RU)

74. House on Taganka

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House on Taganka НоуФрост / CC0 1.0

The State Museum of Vladimir Vysotsky is a cultural and scientific center engaged in the collection, storage and study of materials reflecting the life and work of Vladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky, as well as the era in which he lived.

Wikipedia: Музей Владимира Высоцкого (RU), Website

75. Храм святителя Николая в Кузнецкой Слободе

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The Church of St. Nicholas in Kuznetskaya Sloboda is an Orthodox church in the Zamoskvorechye district of Moscow. It belongs to the Moskvoretsky Deanery of the Moscow Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church. It is one of the few churches in the post-Soviet space that were not closed during the Soviet era.

Wikipedia: Храм Святителя Николая в Кузнецах (RU)

76. Novosibirskiy Komsomolets Submarine

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The B-396 Novosibirsk Komsomolets was a Soviet and Russian diesel-electric submarine of Project 641B Som, which served in the Northern Fleet from 1980 to 1998. Since July 26, 2006, it has been installed in the Navy Museum in the Severnoye Tushino Park on the shore of the Khimki Reservoir in Moscow.

Wikipedia: Б-396 «Новосибирский комсомолец» (RU)

77. Катастрофе дирижабля СССР-В6

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Катастрофе дирижабля СССР-В6

SSSR-V6 OSOAVIAKhIM was a semi-rigid airship designed by Italian engineer and airship designer Umberto Nobile and constructed as a part of the Soviet airship program. The airship was named after the Soviet organisation OSOAVIAKhIM. V6 was the largest airship built in the Soviet Union and one of the most successful. In October 1937, it set a new world record for airship endurance of 130 hours 27 minutes under command of Ivan Pankow, beating the previous record by the German airship Graf Zeppelin.

Wikipedia: SSSR-V6 OSOAVIAKhIM (EN)

78. Монумент Победы

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Монумент ПобедыSergey Korovkin 84 / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Pobeda Monument is a Moscow obelisk located on Winners' Square in Victory Park on Poklonnaya Gora. It was erected in 1994-1995 according to the project of sculptor Zurab Tsereteli with the assistance of architects Leonid Vavakin and Vladimir Budaev, opened on May 9, 1995. The monument is the tallest monument in Russia.

Wikipedia: Монумент Победы (RU)

79. Храм Благовещения Пресвятой Богородицы

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Храм Благовещения Пресвятой БогородицыSergey Rodovnichenko from Moscow, Russia / CC BY-SA 2.0

The Church of the Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos in Petrovsky Park is a parish church belonging to the All Saints Deanery of the Moscow City Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church. Located at Krasnoarmeyskaya Street, 2.

Wikipedia: Храм Благовещения Пресвятой Богородицы в Петровском парке (RU)

80. Церковь Святителя Николая Чудотворца На Берсеневке В Верхних Садовниках

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The Church of St. Nikola on Bersenevka is a Edinoverie Orthodox church in the Yakimanka district of Moscow. It belongs to the Moskvoretsky Deanery of the Moscow Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church. It is the architectural ensemble with chambers of Averky Kirillov.

Wikipedia: Храм Николая Чудотворца на Берсеневке (RU)

81. Храм святых мучеников Флора и Лавра на Зацепе

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The Church of the Icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow" on Zatsepa is a parish Orthodox church in the Zamoskvorechye district of Moscow. It belongs to the Moskvoretsky Deanery of the Moscow Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Wikipedia: Церковь Флора и Лавра на Зацепе (RU), Website

82. Apartment Museum of Fyodor Dostoevsky

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The Moscow House of Dostoevsky Museum Center is a memorial museum dedicated to the work of the writer Fyodor Dostoevsky. It is located in the former building of the Mariinsky Hospital, in the wing of which his family lived from 1821 to 1837. It was founded in 1928 as the Museum-Apartment of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, in 1940 it became part of the State Literary Museum. For 2018, the exhibition includes antique furniture, family photographs, as well as personal belongings of the Dostoevsky family.

Wikipedia: Музей-квартира Ф. М. Достоевского (Москва) (RU)

83. Diamond Fund

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Diamond Fund

The Diamond Fund is a unique collection of gems, jewelry and natural nuggets, which are stored and exhibited in the Kremlin Armoury in Russia. The Fund was opened in 1967 and its collection dates back to the Russian Crown treasury instituted by Emperor Peter I of Russia in 1719.

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84. К. А. Тону

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К. А. Тону

Konstantin Andreyevich Thon, also spelled Ton was an official architect of Imperial Russia during the reign of Nicholas I. His major works include the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, the Grand Kremlin Palace and the Kremlin Armoury in Moscow.

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85. Museum of Moscow railway

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The Museum of the Moscow Railway is situated next to Paveletsky Rail Terminal in Moscow. The museum reopened to private visitors in 2011 and it reopened to the general public in January 2012. It's the object of cultural heritage of Russia.

Wikipedia: Museum of the Moscow Railway (Paveletskaya station) (EN)

86. Monument to Minin and Pozharsky

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The Monument to Minin and Pozharsky is a bronze statue designed by Ivan Martos and located on the Red Square in Moscow, Russia, in front of Saint Basil's Cathedral. The statue commemorates two Russian national heroes Prince Dmitry Pozharsky and Kuzma Minin, who in 1612 organized a popular uprising that ultimately led to the end of the Polish occupation of Moscow during Polish intervention in Russia, thus putting an end to the Time of Troubles.

Wikipedia: Monument to Minin and Pozharsky (EN)

87. Церковь Троицы в Никитниках

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The Church of the Holy Life-Giving Trinity in Nikitniki is an Orthodox church in the Tverskoy district of Moscow, the standard of Moscow uzoro of the mid-XVII century, built by Yaroslavl merchants in Kitay-gorod. This building is a milestone in the history of Russian architecture, it served as a model for many Moscow churches of the second half of the XVII century.

Wikipedia: Церковь Троицы в Никитниках (RU)

88. Georgy Zhukov

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Georgy ZhukovMoscowjobnet / CC BY-SA 4.0

The monument to Mr. Zhükov is a sculptural monument to the Soviet commander Georgy Zhukov in Moscow. It was installed on May 8, 1995 on Manezhnaya Square in front of the Historical Museum. It was made by sculptor Vyacheslav Klykov together with architect Yuri Grigoriev in the spirit of socialist realism.

Wikipedia: Памятник маршалу Жукову (Москва) (RU)

89. Храм Рождества Христова

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Храм Рождества Христова

The Church of the Nativity of Christ in Izmailovo is an Orthodox church in the Izmailovo district of Moscow. It is part of the Nativity Deanery of the Moscow Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church. Architectural monument.

Wikipedia: Храм Рождества Христова в Измайлове (RU)

90. К. А. Тимирязеву

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К. А. Тимирязеву

Kliment Arkadievich Timiryazev, sometimes Timiriazev was a Russian Imperial botanist and physiologist and a major proponent of thought of Charles Darwin in Russia. He founded a faculty of vegetable physiology and a laboratory at the Petrovskoye Academy.

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91. Romen Theatre

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Romen Theatre in Moscow, Russia, is the oldest and the most famous of Romani theatres in the world. The theatre is a key object of Romani culture in Russia, and from the moment of its foundation in 1931, it has been a centre of attraction for Romani artists in Russia.

Wikipedia: Romen Theatre (EN), Website

92. Собор Покрова Пресвятой Богородицы

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The Church of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos in Izmailovo is an Orthodox church in the Izmailovo district of Moscow, on an island on the Serebryano-Vinogradny Pond. It belongs to the Nativity Deanery of the Moscow Diocese.

Wikipedia: Храм Покрова Богородицы в Измайлове (RU)

93. А. П. Чехову

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А. П. Чехову Bogdanov-62 / Добросовестное использование

The monument to the student Chekhov on the territory of Moscow State University is a monument to the classic of Russian literature Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, created by the sculptor A. I. Rukavishnikov with the financial support of the Oleg Deripaska Volnoye Delo Foundation.

Wikipedia: Памятник студенту Чехову (RU)

94. Храм Живоначальной Троицы в Воронцове

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The Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Vorontsov is an Orthodox church in the Obruchevsky District (South-Western Administrative District) of Moscow. It is located on the territory of Vorontsovsky Park. It belongs to the St. Andrew's Deanery of the Moscow Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Wikipedia: Храм Троицы Живоначальной в Воронцове (RU)

95. Храм Воскресения Христова и Покрова Божией Матери

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The Church of the Resurrection of Christ and the Intercession of the Mother of God in Tokmakov Lane is a temple of the Old Believers-priestless Pomor Concord, located in Tokmakov Lane of the Basmanny District of the Central Administrative District of Moscow. This is the first Old Believer church of the Pomor community, erected after the manifesto of religious tolerance in 1905 in Moscow.

Wikipedia: Церковь Воскресения Христова и Покрова Богородицы в Токмаковом переулке (RU)

96. Храм Покрова Пресвятой Богородицы

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Храм Покрова Пресвятой БогородицыLodo27 from Moscow, Russia / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Church of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos in Rubtsovo is a Edinoverie Orthodox church in the Basmanny district of Moscow. It belongs to the Epiphany Deanery of the Moscow Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church. The Patriarchal Center of the Old Russian Liturgical Tradition operates at the temple.

Wikipedia: Храм Покрова Пресвятой Богородицы в Рубцове (RU)

97. Дом Пороховщикова

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The Porokhovshchikov House is a mansion in the center of Moscow, at 36 Starokonyushenny Lane. It was built in 1871-1872 for the Russian entrepreneur and philanthropist A. A. Porokhovshchikov, the owner of the Slavic Bazaar hotel and the restaurant of the same name. The building, built on an ancient wooden foundation, successfully synthesized the techniques of the national architectural tradition. Built of thick logs, decorated with carved architraves, cornices and valances, the mansion combines large volumes and a picturesque appearance. The project of the house in 1873 received a prize at the World Exhibition in Vienna.

Wikipedia: Дом Пороховщикова (RU)

98. Bunker 42 -Tagansky Protected Command Point

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The Cold War Museum (Moscow) or Bunker GO-42, also known as "facility-02" (1947), CHZ-293 (1951), CHZ-572 (1953), and GO-42 (from 1980), and now Exhibition Complex Bunker-42, is a once-secret military complex, bunker, communication center in Moscow, Russia, near the underground Moscow Metro station Taganskaya. It has an area of 7,000 square metres (75,000 sq ft) and is situated at a depth of 65 metres (213 ft) below ground.

Wikipedia: Tagansky Protected Command Point (EN), Website

99. Д. А. Шмаринову

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Д. А. Шмаринову неизвестно / Добросовестное использование

Dementy Alekseevich Shmarinov is a Russian graphic artist, illustrator, and teacher. People's Artist of the USSR (1967). Laureate of the Lenin Prize (1980) and the Stalin Prize of the second degree (1943).

Wikipedia: Шмаринов, Дементий Алексеевич (RU)

100. Храм Державной иконы Божией Матери

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The Church of the Reigning Icon of the Mother of God is a wooden Orthodox church-chapel in Moscow, part of the complex of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. It belongs to the Central Deanery of the Moscow Diocese.

Wikipedia: Храм Державной иконы Божией Матери (Москва) (RU)

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