List of Moscow tourist attractions
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[edit] UNESCO World Heritage Sites
- Red Square
- Iberian Gate and Chapel
- Kilometre Zero
- Upper Trade Rows (GUM)
- Lenin's mausoleum
- Alexander Garden
- Lobnoye Mesto
- Kremlin
- Novodevichy Convent
- Architectural Ensemble of the Trinity Sergius Lavra
- Church of the Ascension in Kolomenskoye
- State Historical Museum
[edit] Sights built during the Communist era
- Ostankino Television Tower (Europe's tallest tower)
- Shukhov Tower
- All-Russian Exhibition Center
- House on Embankment
- North River Terminal
- Moscow Power Engineering Institute
[edit] Stalinist skyscrapers
- Moscow State University
- Block of flats on Kotelnicheskaya Embankment
- Block of flats on Kudrinskaya Square
- Hotel Leningradskaya
- Hotel "Ukraina"
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Ministry of Heavy Industry
[edit] Constructivist architecture and Postconstructivism
- Tsentrosoyuz building
- Rusakov Workers' Club
- Bakhmetevsky Bus Garage
- Novo-Ryazanskaya Street Garage
- School 518
- Zuev Workers' Club
- Svoboda Factory Club
- Kauchuk Factory Club
[edit] Museums
- Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
- Museum of the Great Patriotic War
- Tretyakov Gallery
- Fersman Mineralogical Museum
- Moscow Museum of Modern Art
- Kremlin Armoury
- Kremlin Diamond Fond
- Moscow House of Photography
- State Historical Museum
- Kubinka Tank Museum
- Polytechnical Museum
- Central Air Force Museum
[edit] Religious buildings
[edit] Convents and Monasteries
- St. Andronik Monastery
- Epiphany Monastery
- Chudov Monastery
- Danilov Monastery
- Donskoy Monastery
- Krutitsy
- Marfo-Mariinsky Convent
- Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery
- Novodevichy Convent
- Novospassky Monastery
- Nikolo-Perervinsky Monastery
- Simonov Monastery
- Sretensky Monastery
- Ascension Convent
- Vysokopetrovsky Monastery
- Zaikonospassky monastery
- Chrysostom Monastery
[edit] Churches
- Saint Basil's Cathedral
- Church of the Savior on Bolvany
- Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
- Elokhovo Cathedral
- Nativity Church in Putinki
- Iberian Gate and Chapel
- Kazan Cathedral
- Church of the Intercession at Fili
- Church of St. John the Warrior
- Nativity Church at Putinki
- Church of St. Nicholas in Khamovniki
- Church of All Saints, Moscow
[edit] Religious buildings of other elions
[edit] Theatres
[edit] Stadiums
- Eduard Streltsov Stadium
- Luzhniki Stadium
- Young Pioneers Stadium
- Dynamo Sports Palace
- Dynamo Stadium
- Lokomotiv Stadium
- Khodynka Arena
[edit] film studios
[edit] Monument and sculptures
- Worker and Kolkhoz Woman
- Monument to Alexander II
- Monument to Minin and Pozharsky
- Monument to the Conquerors of Space
[edit] Government buildings
[edit] Modern buildings
[edit] Moscow-City
[edit] Other sights
- List of tallest buildings in Moscow
- Central Moscow Hippodrome
- Kitai-gorod
- Moscow City Hall
- Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture
- State Public Science and Technical Library
- Manege
- Vlakhernskoye-Kuzminki
- Lubyanka (KGB)
- Moscow Zoo
- Patriarch's Ponds
- Menshikov Tower
- Gostiny Dvor
- Moscow Orphanage
- Moscow State Technical University
- Petrovsky Passage
- Hotel Metropol
[edit] natural and urban attractions
[edit] Avenues, Boulevards and Streets
- Tsvetnoy Boulevard
- Garden Ring
- Kutuzovsky Prospekt
- Leningradsky Prospekt
- New Arbat Street
- Tretyakov Drive
- Old Arbat
- Cosmonauts Alley
- Kuznetsky Most
- Boulevard Ring
- Great Lubyanka Street
- Tverskaya Street
- Petrovka Street
- Sadovnicheskaya street
- Povarskaya Street
[edit] Squares
- Pushkin Square
- Komsomolskaya Square
- Red Square
- Slavyanskaya Square
- Manege Square
- Lubyanka Square
- Theatre Square
[edit] Bridges
[edit] Hills
[edit] Parks and gardens
- Gorky Park
- Neskuchniy Garden
- Izmaylovskiy Park
- Sokolniki Park
- Losiny Ostrov National Park
- Botanical Garden of Academy of Sciences
- All-Russia Exhibition Centre (until 1992 known as the "Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy", VDNKh)
[edit] Districts
[edit] Moskva River
[edit] Transportal architecture
[edit] Moscow Rail Terminals
The nine Moscow rail terminals are located within a kilometer or two outside of the Garden Ring. Below they are listed clockwise, along with a sample of destinations served by each one, starting with the three stations at Komsomolskaya Square:
- Leningradsky Rail Terminal (Saint Petersburg, Tallinn, Helsinki, Murmansk)
- Yaroslavsky Rail Terminal (Yaroslavl, Archangel, Vladivostok, Beijing)
- Kazanskiy Rail Terminal (Kazan, Almaty, Tashkent)
- Kursky Rail Terminal (Kursk, Sevastopol, Sochi)
- Paveletskiy Rail Terminal (Pavelets, Astrakhan, Baku)
- Kievsky Rail Terminal (Kiev, Odessa, Budapest)
- Belorussky Rail Terminal (Minsk, Warsaw, Berlin)
- Savyolovskiy Rail Terminal (Savyolovo, Dubna)
- Rizhsky Rail Terminal (Riga)
[edit] Airports
There are five airports serving Moscow:
- Vnukovo International Airport
- Sheremetyevo International Airport
- Domodedovo International Airport
- Bykovo Airport
- Ostafievo International Airport
[edit] Moscow Metro stations
- Komsomolskaya (Line 1)
- Krasniye Vorota
- Kropotkinskaya
- Vorobyovy Gory
- Mayakovskaya
- Novokuznetskaya
- Avtozavodskaya
- Park Pobedy
- Kiyevskaya(Line 3)
- Arbatskaya (Line 3)
- Ploshchad Revolyutsii
- Elektrozavodskaya
- Taganskaya (Line 5)
- Komsomolskaya (Line 5)
- Prospekt Mira (Line 5)
- Novoslobodskaya
- Kiyevskaya (Line 5)
- Pushkinskaya
- Kuznetsky most
- Nagatinskaya
[edit] sights which don't exist
[edit] Destroyed or lost sights
- Rossiya Hotel (demolished in March 2006)
- Hotel Moskva (Moscow) (demolished in 2004; to be rebuilt)
- Red Gate
- Sukharev Tower