MOSCOW FOR CHILDREN Moscow for children We will guide you and your children to the most interesting places. We would like your children to love Moscow as much as we love it. To make you feel comfortable in our city, we have collected some useful information for you. We hope you will enjoy it! Discover Tourist contact Moscow center Discover Moscow (discover. Information on city transport, moscow) is the official tourist the most interesting places, information portal about mod- assistance and consultations in ern Moscow. Here you can find emergency cases. out about seasonal events, at- +7 (495) 122-01-11 — for calls tractions, museums and sight- from anywhere in the world. seeing routes of the Russian 122 — for calls in Moscow and capital, find information on Moscow region. transport infrastructure and hotels in Moscow. The tourist Calls are paid at the rate of the portal is available in Russian, subscriber’s mobile operator. English and Chinese. Useful phone numbers 112 – any emergency discovermoscow +7 (495) 694-86-20 – if you lost documents discovermoscow_ru +7 (915) 293-06-25 – if you forgot your belongings in land transport Tourist +7 (495) 622-20-85 – if you forgot your belongings in the information subway centers Media center in Zaryadye park 6 Varvarka St., bldg. 1 Visit Center at the Kolomen- skoye open air museum 39 Andropova Ave 1 information Getting from the airport River cruises The best way to get to Moscow You can take a boat ride through from Sheremetyevo, Domode- the centre of Moscow at any dovo and Vnukovo airports is time of the year even in winter – high-speed aeroexpress train: navigation on the Moscow River aeroexpress.ru. Alternative ways lasts 365 days a year. Excursion are suburban trains, buses, pub- rides on ice-class yachts with a lic taxi buses or taxi. It’s easier restaurant on board or on river to call a taxi in Moscow using cabriolets of the Radisson Royal the applications of the largest Flotilla (radisson-cruise.ru) will companies: Yandex.Taxi, City- allow you to see the capital from Mobile, Gett or Uber Russia. If a different angle. Boat rides you are arriving at the airport at start every 30 minutes from night, you can take a night bus: 8 wharfs. There are perfor- Sheremetyevo – H1, Domode- mance and gastronomic cruis- dovo – No. 308, Vnukovo – H11. es, animation for children on weekends. Carsharing Sightseeing Bus Carsharing in Moscow is conve- nient and not expensive at all. All To see the sights of the city, you it takes is to download an ope- can buy a ticket to the famous rator app to your smartphone CitySightseeing double-decker from AppStore or PlayMarket, (city-sightseeing.ru). Through enter registration details and the window or from the roof wait for confirmation. The big- of the double-decker you will gest carsharing companies are see the main and the most Yandex.Drive, YouDrive, Belka- interesting things in the city Car, MatryoshCar and Delimobil. and will certainly listen to the story about Moscow sights Bikesharing in your native language with a multi-language audio guide. You do not have to walk in Mos- The hop on – hop off system cow, you can enjoy sights and allows to get off and on the bus keep in trim renting a bicycle. where you wish, and as often Register in the bicycle rental as you need. system with Velobike applica- tion, at the station terminal or at velobike.ru, pay for the rental by card and you are ready to go! Daily access will cost only 150 roubles. After paying for access, you can ride as many times as you like up to 30 minutes at no extra charge. You can take a bi- cycle at one parking place and leave it at any other, and it is easy to find such parking places in the city. The Radisson Royal Flotilla 2 Moscow for children Cable way on Vorobyovy Gory Cable way Metro Tours If you happen to be on Voro- The Moscow metro is not only byovy Gory, do not miss memo- one of the main objects of trans- rable experience of the cable port infrastructure, but also an way (srkvg.ru) connecting the underground museum, and of observation site with Luzhniki course a destination for various stadium. The cabin is swing- excursions. Here you will walk ing smoothly in the wind, like a through beautiful stations, 44 bird moving its centre of gravity of which are recognized as cul- from one wing to another. With tural heritage sites, and will get the help of media screens and to know rare and hidden chap- an audio guide in 4 languages, ters of history. It is quite easy you can find out a lot of interest- to get such an excursion: visit ing things, including the history the site tour.mosmetro.ru and of the construction of the metro choose the topic, time and date bridge, which is best seen from that suit you. All the most inter- here. Exit to the take-off runway esting excursions in the Metro passes through different ends of can be found at one place. Vorobyovy Gory Metro station. 3 parks THE GORKY PARK m. Oktyabrskaya, m. Park Kultury 9 Krymsky Val St. park-gorkogo.com The Gorky Park he Gorky Park is 250 hec- terns, forms and sizes. There is tares of pure recreation a unique Mega swing ground — at a picturesque bank of 29 swings with all possible the Moskva river. In 2014 types of rotation. The ground is Neskuchny Garden, na- adapted for children with vari- ture reserve Vorobyovy ous disabilities. T Gory and green areas of Moscow State University were integrated into the Gorky Park, and it became the favourite des- tination for recreation and walks with children. The huge Salyut playground complies with the new dimen- sions of the park. It is the big- gest play structure in Russia: nine spaces for games with sand, water, colour, sound, The Gorky height and depth, various pat- Park 4 Moscow for children From April till September Peo- ples observatory is open. Here you can view at daytime the Sun, the Moon and Venus. On weekdays kindergarten Thinking. Individuality. Develop- ment (MIR) is open in Muzeon. The Gorky In summer MIR operates as Park a children camp (open from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.). In oth- In winter the Gorky Park er seasons children also have invites not only to the popular enough to stay busy: language city skating rink, but also to courses, programming, pain- a real ice hockey rink. Playground ting, vocal and music classes, pottery. Chess club Belaya La- dya (White Rook) is open daily in Neskuchny Garden. City Cottage Zelenaya The Main entrance Shkola (Green School) is open all year round. It has arch houses the a nursery (0+) – a light and Park History cosy space, where children can Museum, an play all year round supervised by parents and school em- observation deck ployees, — and a school (6+) with a panoramic offering classes in ecology, gardening, art master classes. view of the park The traditional Russian dacha and Moscow, has been reconstructed here: an orchard, a kitchen garden, a lecture hall and a samovar and a round ta- a souvenir shop ble, on which the guests play board games, drink tea and listen to fairy tales. In summer, boating stations Skate park are operating on the Pionersky and Golitsynsky park ponds. The Main entrance arch houses the Park History Muse- um, an observation deck with a panoramic view of the park and Moscow, a lecture hall and a souvenir shop. Leaving the park, do not forget to drop in it. 5 parks VDNH m. VDNKh 119 Mira Ave. vdnh.ru “Cosmos” playground resent day children often omy) is the dream town orga- ask the question: how did nized in 1939 as the embodi- they live in the USSR? ment of the bright future. Now it This is the best place to is a sort of retro-utopia, a muse- get to know the USSR um of the USSR history. For ex- from its most attractive ample, in pavilion No. 57 Russia P side and show it to child- is my history, with the main ex- ren. VDNH (The Exhibition of position dedicated to the histo- Achievements of National Econ- ry of the Russian state system, you will find the Museum of So- viet game machines (6+). Time seems to have stopped there: to play the machines costs 15 cents, and a glass of Soviet soda costs, as in the post-war USSR, three cents. However, time flows on. Extensive recon- struction is underway. VDNH is Peoples Friendship Fountain 6 Moscow for children a beautiful, living, green park, with a few excellent museums and some pavilions of celestial beauty. VDNH does not freeze in the past and is developing simultaneously in several lines that gradually take their spatial form. Educational zone (mainly in the right wing from the main entrance) includes pavilions No. 34 the Astronautics and aviation Centre, No. 36 Cinema Museum, City Farm No. 461 Smart City. Interactive zone, where you can engage in pool, where visitors can touch interesting and useful activi- marine amphibians. You will ties: building No. 174а Caramel hardly have another chance to manufactory, pavilion No. 47 touch an electric ray. House of Crafts, Technograd and others. Landscape park has five natural zones, eco-systems, the Labyrinth. Of special note is VDNH is a the City Farm. In the latter you can not only take a look at cows beautiful, living, and listen to bleating of sheep green park, with and goats, but also have a walk a few excellent with a donkey and caress an al- paca (lama).