Top 10 Things to do in District South-Western (YuZAO), Central Russia

The Vernadsky 13 drama theatre is a non-state theatre in Moscow with an extensive repertoire of children's plays and bright performances for young people and adults. The theatre has been performing its productions since 2000. Artistic Director - Elena Gromova.

Sparrow Hills is one of the highest points in Moscow and offers a panoramic view of the city. Great place to take a break from sightseeing and enjoy a picnic.

The State Darwin Museum was established in 1907 by A.F. Kots as educational museum at the Moscow Higher Women's Courses. It was the first museum of biological evolution in the world. Today the State Darwin Museum is: The largest museum of natural science that occupies 3 buildings with the total area more than 20 000 sq. m; Modern exposition illustrating different evolution processes (5 000 sq. m); Collections including about 400 000 exhibits; More than 50 exhibitions a year in exhibition halls with the total area about 1000 sq. m; More than 600 000 visitors a year; Organization of scientific conferences and seminars, ecological and family festivals; Extensive publishing and educational activities; Introduction of the latest museum technologies. At the "Intermuseum" festival in 2007 and in 2017 the Darwin Museum was recognized as the best museum of the year and was awarded the Grand Prix.

The Orlov Paleontological Museum is a part of the Paleontological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences. The museum exposition occupies five main halls. Connected by crossings, they form a closed sequence, which begins and ends by a tower with a ceramic panel "Tree of Life". It is the biggest art decoration of the museum. All halls of the museum, except for the introductory one, are devoted to particular eras of geologic history of the Earth. The introductory hall is followed by the hall of Precambrian and Early Paleozoic, and then, by turns, halls of the Late Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic. The exposition of the museum allows to trace all main stages of life evolution on the Earth: from the fossil evidences of vital activity of the earliest bacteria aged as about 1,5 billion years, to the animals of Ice Age, the contemporaries of the ancient man. Every year it is visited by over 250 000 people and about half of them are children of school and preschool age.