MOSCOW: WHAT TO SEE Moscow: what to see We would like to share with you the most important things to know about today’s Moscow. We will be happy if during the three days with us you fall in love with its streets and squares, museums and parks, shops and restaurants, just like us. Forever and ever. To make you feel comfortable in our city, we have collected some useful information for you. We hope you will enjoy it! Discover RUSSPASS Moscow RUSSPASS (russpass.com) is Discover Moscow (discover. a digital platform for tourists moscow) is the official tourist powered by AI. It offers a wide information portal about mod- choice of attractions which you ern Moscow. Here you can find can visit comfortably with the out about seasonal events, at- RUSSPASS app. tractions, museums and sight- Using RUSSPASS seeing routes of the Russian capital, find information on • plan your trip on the website transport infrastructure and • download the app which will hotels in Moscow. The tourist be your city guide and travel as- portal is available in Russian, sistant English and Chinese. Add more attractions and servic- es in the Itinerary Planner tool on the RUSSPASS website. • Get an envelope with the RUSS- discovermoscow PASS bank card or use the virtual card. discovermoscow_ru The RUSSPASS card is both a bank card and your ticket to Tourist museums, parks and other plac- es, various services and public information transport. centers Media center in Zaryadye park 6 Varvarka St., bldg. 1 Visiting center at the Kolomen- skoye open air museum 39 Andropova Ave Tourist contact CEPC Tourist Information Center center at Yaroslavskiy railway station 5 Komsomolskaya Sq. Information on city transport, the most interesting places, assistance and consultations in Useful phone emergency cases. numbers +7 (495) 122-01-11 — for calls from anywhere in the world. 112 – any emergency 122 — for calls in Moscow and +7 (495) 694-86-20 – if you Moscow region. lost documents Calls are paid at the rate of the +7 (915) 293-06-25 – if you subscriber’s mobile operator. forgot your belongings in land transport +7 (495) 622-20-85 – if you forgot your belongings in the subway 1 information Getting from the airport navigation on the Moscow River lasts 365 days a year. Excursion The best way to get to Moscow rides on ice-class yachts with a from Sheremetyevo, Domode- restaurant on board or on river dovo and Vnukovo airports is cabriolets of the Radisson Royal high-speed aeroexpress train: Flotilla (radisson-cruise.ru) will aeroexpress.ru. Alternative ways allow you to see the capital from are suburban trains, buses, pub- a different angle. Boat rides lic taxi buses or taxi. It’s easier start every 30 minutes from to call a taxi in Moscow using 8 wharfs. There are perfor- the applications of the largest mance and gastronomic cruis- companies: Yandex.Taxi, City- es, animation for children on Mobile, Gett or Uber Russia. If weekends. you are arriving at the airport at night, you can take a night bus: Sheremetyevo – H1, Domode- dovo – No. 308, Vnukovo – H11. Carsharing Carsharing in Moscow is con- venient and not expensive at all. All it takes is to download The Radisson Royal Flotilla an ope rator app to your smart- phone from AppStore or Play- Sightseeing Bus Market, enter registration de- tails and wait for confirmation. To see the sights of the city, you The biggest carsharing compa- can buy a ticket to the famous nies are Yandex.Drive, YouDrive, CitySightseeing double-decker BelkaCar, MatryoshCar, Delimo- (city-sightseeing.ru). Through bil, Rentmee, Lifcar and Carusel. the window or from the roof of the double-decker you will Bikesharing see the main and the most interesting things in the city You do not have to walk in Mos- and will certainly listen to the cow, you can enjoy sights and story about Moscow sights keep in trim renting a bicycle. in your native language with Register in the bicycle rental a multi-language audio guide. system with Velobike applica- The hop on – hop off system tion, at the station terminal or allows to get off and on the bus at velobike.ru, pay for the rental where you wish, and as often by card and you are ready to go! as you need. After paying for access, you can ride as many times as you like Cable way up to 30 minutes at no extra charge. You can take a bicycle If you happen to be on Voro- at one parking place and leave it byovy Gory, do not miss mem- at any other, and it is easy to find orable experience of the cable such parking places in the city. way (srkvg.ru) connecting the observation site with Luzhniki River cruises stadium. The cabin is swing- ing smoothly in the wind, like a You can take a boat ride through bird moving its centre of gravity the centre of Moscow at any from one wing to another. With time of the year even in winter – the help of media screens and 2 Moscow: what to see Cable way on Vorobyovy Gory an audio guide in 4 languages, information and ratings of over you can find out a lot of interest- 1,160 Moscow restaurants, mar- ing things, including the history kets and bars. You can find it of the construction of the metro on sale in most Moscow book- bridge, which is best seen from stores. here. Exit to the take-off runway restnavigator.com passes through different ends of Vorobyovy Gory Metro station. The GreatList is a premi- um-class restaurant guide from Metro Tours Alexander Sysoev — founder of the Russian Restaurant Festival. The Moscow metro is not only It includes restaurant descrip- one of the main objects of trans- tions, meal recommendations port infrastructure, but also an and insider info. If you see a res- underground museum, and of taurant displaying a sticker with course a destination for various the Great List logo, rest assured excursions. Here you will walk that the food, atmosphere and through beautiful stations, 44 service there are top-class. of which are recognized as cul- greatlist.ru tural heritage sites, and will get to know rare and hidden chap- ters of history. It is quite easy to get such an excursion: visit the site tour.mosmetro.ru and choose the topic, time and date that suit you. All the most inter- esting excursions in the Metro can be found at one place. Gastronomic guides The Restaurant Restaurant Navigator is a Navigator 2020 unique guide to Moscow’s food and drink scene. It is published with support from the Moscow Tourism Committee. It features 3 walks WHAT YOU SHOULDN’T MISS IN MOSCOW Kremlin → Red Square → Bolshoi Theatre → Chekhov Moscow Academic Art Theatre → Tverskaya Street → Pushkin Square → Kuznetsky bridge → Red Square Red tart your walk with the Square Kremlin, a magnificent castle built by a group of architects led by Aris- totle Fioravanti. Visit the museums of the Kremlin. S There were a lot of krem- lins in ancient Russian cities, but the Moscow Kremlin is unique. tress, is called red not because Assump- the walls of the Kremlin fortress tion Cathedral are made of red burnt bricks, in the Kremlin and not because the Mausoleum of the Red Leader is in the cen- tre of it, but because it is beau- tiful. Correct translation of Red Square from Old Russian is Nice Bolshoi Theatre Moscow. The Kremlin. These words have become almost synonymous all over the world. Moscow is the centre, and the centre of Moscow is the Krem- lin. Red Square, adjacent to the eastern side of the Kremlin for- 4 Moscow: what to see Square. Walk along Red Square, from Vasilyevsky Spusk with its famous St. Basil’s Cathedral, feel the uneven surface of the stones. Moscow starts here. From here we begin our journey across the city centre. Right in front of us, on the corner of Mokhovaya and Tver- skaya streets there is National hotel. Built at the beginning of Kuznetsky Most Street the 20th century, today it is the only Russian hotel of The Lu- monument to Yury Dolgoruky, xury Collection. A little to the the legendary founder of Mos- right, along Mokhovaya street, cow, and walk along Stolesh- nikov lane. A little further along Tverskaya there is Moskva bookstore, where you can find antiques and souvenirs. Little by little we have un- noticeably reached Pushkin Square and the monument to Pushkin. Passing behind the monument along the fountains Monument to A. Pushkin of Strastnoi Boulevard, we will against the background of Izvestia Building get to Bolshaya Dmitrovka. On this street you can walk passing into Teatralny proezd, to the intersection with the there is another famous hotel Kuznetsky Most, that used to in the Russian modern style – be the main shopping street of Metropol. Moscow. Right opposite there is the Then you can go to Luby- Bolshoi Theatre. You can watch anka square and through Tre t- Swan Lake here, or you can just yakovsky passage to one of the visit Bolshoi on excursion and most beautiful streets of the find out, what the Russian mir- city – the pedestrian Nikolskaya acle was made of – the ballet of street. This is one of the oldest the beginning and the middle of streets in Moscow. the 20th century. Having walked a couple of hundred meters along Petrov- ka street, let’s turn left into Kamergersky lane... Its atmos- phere resembles the beginning of the 20th century. Let’s pass by the memorial apartment of Sergey Prokofiev and see the building of the Chekhov Moscow Academic Art Theatre, built by Nikolskaya architect Fedor Schekhtel with Street the active participation of ac- Along Nikolskaya street we tors.