Location: District Western (ZAO)
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The 10 Best Sights & Landmarks in District Western (ZAO), Central Russia
The political, scientific, historical, architectural and business center of Russia, Moscow displays the country's contrasts at their most extreme. The ancient and modern are juxtaposed side by side in this city of 10 million. Catch a metro from one of the ornate stations to see Red Square, the Kremlin, the nine domes of St. Basil's Cathedral, Lenin's Mausoleum, the KGB Museum and other symbols of Moscow's great and terrible past, then lighten up and shop Boulevard Ring or people watch in Pushkin Square.
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1. Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Temple
2. Church of the Savior Transfiguration
3. Diorama of the Moscow Center
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5.0 based on 31 reviews
4. Monument to Lesya Ukrainka
5. University Square
6. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MGU)
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4.5 based on 1,476 reviews
Lomonosov Moscow State University (MGU) was established in 1755 and has more than 40,000 students (graduate and postgraduate). It is considered one of the oldest universities in Moscow and is part of "Stalin's Seven Sisters," a group of Moscow skyscrapers built in the Stalinist style of architecture.
Reviewed By serdita003 - Athens, Greece
Remarkable building of Stalin Era is a heart of numerous surrounding faculties of Moscow state University. Very well maintained parks around, pedestrian zone, great place to walk if weather permits. Unfortunately you con not get in unless you have a pass as it is students facility.
7. Triumphal Arch
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4.5 based on 141 reviews
The main Moscow's monument of the Patriotic War of 1812 and victory over Napoleon.
Reviewed By sergeyk147
We were here in January, during New Year's festivities. It was rather warm, practically no snow around, more like winter somewhere in France than in Russia. It's curious that a "predecessor" of this arch in Paris mentions battle at Borodino - a decisive clash of that 1812 war - as victory of the French while Russians claim it were them who took the upper hand. Well, strictly speaking, the former is right: Napoleon captured Moscow - his major goal and prize - several days later. Its inhabitants, however, preferred to arson it and turned the city into ashes which radically changed the course of the war and ultimately made the French emperor retreat from this "wrong" country. Yes, this Triumphal arch is not authentic. So what? Russians still revere those events as sacred. They call that war "Patriotic" and don't give a damn about what others think of it. In the end of the day, it was their army which - together with its allies - entered Paris in 1814, didn't it? Recommended.
8. Church of the Intercession at Fili
9. Church of the Archangel Gabriel
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4.5 based on 15 reviews
Also known as Menshikov's Tower, the church was built in the 18th century for the favorite of Peter the Great, Prince Menshikov, and originally was higher than the Ivan the Great's Bell tower in the Kremlin.
