Moscow

by helenthomson

23 Places

Soviet Dacha

This frozen-in-time summer home outside Moscow provides a look at Russian life in the 1950s.

Added by NadiaMoscow

Bunker-42

Dr. Strangelove-esque tours reveal the inside a bunker once reserved for Stalin himself.

Added by aelandry

Museum of Soviet Arcade Games

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.

Dampo

Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

Allison

Added by Allison

Monument to the Conquerors of Space

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

Dampo

Fallen Monument Park

A sculpture park of the tossed aside relics of the USSR, from Stalin to a massive Soviet emblem.

Allison

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Miniature Moscow

Back in the tiny USSR.

KaliaK

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Moscow Metro Stations

The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.

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Novodevichy Cemetery

Moscow's most popular cemetery includes the graves of numerous cosmonauts.

Allison

Added by Allison

Aquarelle Train on The Moscow Metro

Museum design and public transportation meet in this unique Russian train car.

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State Darwin Museum

The world's first museum dedicated to the work of game-changing naturalist Charles Darwin.

Added by ekoptev

Hotel Ukraina

The tallest hotel in Europe.

stanestane

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Sokol

An early-20th-century "dacha" village of quaint cottages curiously located in a modern part of Moscow.

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Institute of Russian Realist Art

One of the largest collections of socialist realist art shows the surprising depth of the official art of the Soviet Union.

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Public Museum of the Moscow Metro

Hidden in a metro shop under a shopping mall, this small museum tells the story of one of the world's largest urban transit systems.

Added by spokospoko

Old English Yard

The "Mystery and Company of Merchant Adventurers" is an Elizabethan-era hangout in Moscow.

stanestane

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Romanov Boyar Residence

Home of the future Emperors of Russia.

stanestane

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Gorki Leninskiye

Former estate of Lenin, now home to his death mask.

Allison

Added by Allison

Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy

This newly renovated Soviet-era outdoor exhibition center is bigger than the principality of Monaco.

Added by Anastasia Klimchynskaya

Independent Republic of California Embassy in Moscow

The California secessionist movement has its own foreign embassy, in Russia of all places.

AaronNetsky

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Melnikov House

The avant-garde design was able to bypass strict Soviet regulations on architecture.

ahvenas

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Abandoned Marx Generator

A dormant lightning machine equal to all the power in Russia.

Allison

Added by Allison

Museum of the Moscow Railway

This Russian locomotive museum was once devoted just to Lenin's funeral before expanding to encompass Moscow's entire train history.

EricGrundhauser

Added by EricGrundhauser