List of Moscow tourist attractions
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[edit] UNESCO World Heritage Sites
Shukhov Tower. Currently under threat of demolition, the tower is at the top of UNESCO's 'Endangered Buildings' list, and there is an international campaign to save it.
- Red Square
- Iberian Gate and Chapel
- Kilometre Zero
- Upper Trade Rows (GUM)
- Lenin's mausoleum
- Alexander Garden
- Lobnoye Mesto
- Kremlin
- Novodevichy Convent
- Architectural Ensemble of the Trinity Sergius Lavra
- Church of the Ascension in Kolomenskoye
- State Historical Museum
[edit] Sights built during the Communist era
- Ostankino Television Tower (Europe's tallest tower)
- Shukhov Tower
- All-Russian Exhibition Center
- House on Embankment
- North River Terminal
- Moscow Power Engineering Institute
[edit] Stalinist skyscrapers
- Moscow State University
- Block of flats on Kotelnicheskaya Embankment
- Block of flats on Kudrinskaya Square
- Hotel Leningradskaya
- Hotel "Ukraina"
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Ministry of Heavy Industry
[edit] Constructivist architecture and Postconstructivism
- Tsentrosoyuz building
- Rusakov Workers' Club
- Bakhmetevsky Bus Garage
- Novo-Ryazanskaya Street Garage
- School 518
- Zuev Workers' Club
- Svoboda Factory Club
- Kauchuk Factory Club
[edit] Museums
- Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
- Museum of the Great Patriotic War
- Tretyakov Gallery
- Fersman Mineralogical Museum
- Moscow Museum of Modern Art
- Kremlin Armoury
- Kremlin Diamond Fond
- Moscow House of Photography
- State Historical Museum
- Kubinka Tank Museum
- Polytechnical Museum
- Central Air Force Museum
[edit] Religious buildings
[edit] Convents and Monasteries
- St. Andronik Monastery
- Epiphany Monastery
- Chudov Monastery
- Danilov Monastery
- Donskoy Monastery
- Krutitsy
- Marfo-Mariinsky Convent
- Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery
- Novodevichy Convent
- Novospassky Monastery
- Nikolo-Perervinsky Monastery
- Simonov Monastery
- Sretensky Monastery
- Ascension Convent
- Vysokopetrovsky Monastery
- Zaikonospassky monastery
- Chrysostom Monastery
[edit] Churches
- Saint Basil's Cathedral
- Church of the Savior on Bolvany
- Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
- Elokhovo Cathedral
- Nativity Church in Putinki
- Iberian Gate and Chapel
- Kazan Cathedral
- Church of the Intercession at Fili
- Church of St. John the Warrior
- Nativity Church at Putinki
- Church of St. Nicholas in Khamovniki
- Church of All Saints, Moscow
[edit] Religious buildings of other elions
[edit] Theatres
The Bolshoi Theatre
[edit] Stadiums
- Eduard Streltsov Stadium
- Luzhniki Stadium
- Young Pioneers Stadium
- Dynamo Sports Palace
- Dynamo Stadium
- Lokomotiv Stadium
- Khodynka Arena
[edit] film studios
[edit] Monument and sculptures
- Worker and Kolkhoz Woman
- Monument to Alexander II
- Monument to Minin and Pozharsky
- Monument to the Conquerors of Space
[edit] Government buildings
[edit] Modern buildings
[edit] Moscow-City
[edit] Other sights
- List of tallest buildings in Moscow
- Central Moscow Hippodrome
- Kitai-gorod
- Moscow City Hall
- Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture
- State Public Science and Technical Library
- Manege
- Vlakhernskoye-Kuzminki
- Lubyanka (KGB)
- Moscow Zoo
- Patriarch's Ponds
- Menshikov Tower
- Gostiny Dvor
- Moscow Orphanage
- Moscow State Technical University
- Petrovsky Passage
- Hotel Metropol
[edit] natural and urban attractions
[edit] Avenues, Boulevards and Streets
- Tsvetnoy Boulevard
- Garden Ring
- Kutuzovsky Prospekt
- Leningradsky Prospekt
- New Arbat Street
- Tretyakov Drive
- Old Arbat
- Cosmonauts Alley
- Kuznetsky Most
- Boulevard Ring
- Great Lubyanka Street
- Tverskaya Street
- Petrovka Street
- Sadovnicheskaya street
- Povarskaya Street
[edit] Squares
- Pushkin Square
- Komsomolskaya Square
- Red Square
- Slavyanskaya Square
- Manege Square
- Lubyanka Square
- Theatre Square
[edit] Bridges
[edit] Hills
[edit] Parks and gardens
- Gorky Park
- Neskuchniy Garden
- Izmaylovskiy Park
- Sokolniki Park
- Losiny Ostrov National Park
- Botanical Garden of Academy of Sciences
- All-Russia Exhibition Centre (until 1992 known as the "Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy", VDNKh)
[edit] Districts
[edit] Moskva River
[edit] Transportal architecture
[edit] Moscow Rail Terminals
The nine Moscow rail terminals are located within a kilometer or two outside of the Garden Ring. Below they are listed clockwise, along with a sample of destinations served by each one, starting with the three stations at Komsomolskaya Square:
- Leningradsky Rail Terminal (Saint Petersburg, Tallinn, Helsinki, Murmansk)
- Yaroslavsky Rail Terminal (Yaroslavl, Archangel, Vladivostok, Beijing)
- Kazanskiy Rail Terminal (Kazan, Almaty, Tashkent)
- Kursky Rail Terminal (Kursk, Sevastopol, Sochi)
- Paveletskiy Rail Terminal (Pavelets, Astrakhan, Baku)
- Kievsky Rail Terminal (Kiev, Odessa, Budapest)
- Belorussky Rail Terminal (Minsk, Warsaw, Berlin)
- Savyolovskiy Rail Terminal (Savyolovo, Dubna)
- Rizhsky Rail Terminal (Riga)
[edit] Airports
There are five airports serving Moscow:
- Vnukovo International Airport
- Sheremetyevo International Airport
- Domodedovo International Airport
- Bykovo Airport
- Ostafievo International Airport
[edit] Moscow Metro stations
- Komsomolskaya (Line 1)
- Krasniye Vorota
- Kropotkinskaya
- Vorobyovy Gory
- Mayakovskaya
- Novokuznetskaya
- Avtozavodskaya
- Park Pobedy
- Kiyevskaya(Line 3)
- Arbatskaya (Line 3)
- Ploshchad Revolyutsii
- Elektrozavodskaya
- Taganskaya (Line 5)
- Komsomolskaya (Line 5)
- Prospekt Mira (Line 5)
- Novoslobodskaya
- Kiyevskaya (Line 5)
- Pushkinskaya
- Kuznetsky most
- Nagatinskaya
[edit] sights which don't exist
[edit] Destroyed or lost sights
- Rossiya Hotel (demolished in March 2006)
- Hotel Moskva (Moscow) (demolished in 2004; to be rebuilt)
- Red Gate
- Sukharev Tower

