Moscow/Central-East

Metro Stations

Mikhail (Vokabre) Shcherbakov

• Moscow Orphanage

  address: Kitay-gorod, Moskvoretskaya naberezhnaya, 1/15,
  It was an ambitious project conceived by Catherine the Great and Ivan Betskoy, built in 1764. This was intended to manufacture "ideal citizens" for the Russian state by bringing up thousands of abandoned children to a very high standard of refinement, cultivation, and professional qualifications. - Today, the ensemble of the Orphanage houses the Academy of Missile Forces and Russian Academy of Medicine. - he Orphanage was designed as a chain of three square-shaped buildings: the eastern wing for the girls, the western wing for the boys and the central administration block connecting them. Now building closed and disused.

Museums

• Museum of Russian Icon

  phone: +7 495 221 5283
  address: Goncharnaya street (Гончарная улица), 3., building 1,
  It is a unique in Russia private collection of Byzantine and Old Russian art

• Bunker-42, Tagansky Protected Command Point

  phone: +7 495 500-0554
  address: 5th Kotelnichesky lane. (5-й Котельнический пер.), 11
  Decommissioned Cold War-era Soviet underground military nuclear bunker. The bunker has an actual underground connection to metro Taganskaya station, though it is unusable as a means to get into it) / Marxistkaya. - Its a once-secret military complex, bunker, and Spare Long-Range Aviation Command Post (ET-42). It has an area of 7,000 m² and is situated at a depth of 65 m below ground. Up to 3,000 people could live and work there for 90 days without assistance from the outside world, thanks to stores of food and medicine, an air recycling system and diesel generators.

• Polytechnic Museum

  phone: +7 495 730-5438
  address: Novaya ploshchad'(Новая площадь), 3/4
  The museum building in Novaya square in Moscow is a unique architectural monument, built specially for the museum by famous Russian architects. The museum fund of the museum consisted of 230,000 plus items. - A highlight of the museum is the collection of vehicles, including the sections Bicycles, Motorcycles, Cars.

• Shazina Gallery

  phone: +7 495 509-8336
  address: Pokrovskiy bulvar (Покровский бульвар) 14
  Shazina Gallery represents masters of contemporary art in all styles and genres from the end of the 20th century to the beginning of the 21st century.

Monuments

• Solovetsky Stone

  address: Lubyanskaya ploshchad'
  The monument consists of a large stone brought from the Solovetsky Islands, the location of Solovki prison camp, part of the Soviet Gulag system.

Religious Buildings

Mikhail Yakovlev

• Choral Synagogue

  phone: +7 495 940-5557
  address: Basmanny District, Bolshoy Spasogolinischevsky Lane (Большой Спасоглинищевский пер.), 10
  The main synagogue in Russia and in the former Soviet Union. Completed in 1891. Map of Jewish Moscow

• Ivanovsky Convent

  phone: +7 495 624-9209
  address: Malyy Ivanovskiy pereulok ( Малый Ивановский переулок), 2
  A large Russian Orthodox convent in central Moscow. It is the main shrine of St. John the Baptist in the Russian capital.

• Church of the Archangel Gabriel

  address: Arkhangelsky Lane, 15a
  1707. Russian Orthodox The tower with two octagonal circles, the extended lower four-cornered circle and a square circle above it seem to run one into another if looked at from the inside of the Church. The Church is 26m in height. The upper part is cross-shaped. The 18th-century sculpture decorations inside the Church, - supporting the dome,- mainly in the forechurch and choir lofts are very sumptuous. An altar plafond is encircled with fruit and flower swags with four angels standing in the dome corners.

• Church of Saint Nicholas in Klyoniki

  address: Basmanny district, Ulitsa Maroseyka, 3
  1657. Russian Orthodox

• Church of the Martyr George the Victorious in Staryye Luchniki

  address: Tverskoy district,Lubyanskiy proyezd, 9
  1694. Russian Orthodox

• Church of the Holy Trinity on the Mud

  address: Ulitsa Pokrovka, 13
  1861 Russian Orthodox

• Church of the Martyr Theodore of Stratelates

  address: Arkhangelskiy pereulok, 15А
  1806. Russian Orthodox

Parks

• Clean Ponds

  address: Basmanny District, Chistoprudnyy bulvar, 12-14
  The pond was formed by a dam on the Rachka River which used to flow underneath the walls of the White City in the 17th century. The river is nowadays underground, as are the other ponds. The Clean Ponds are fed by a system of waterpipes and home to swans and ducks. In wintertime it is used as a skating rink.

Budget

• Comrade Hostel

  phone: +7 495 628-3126
  address: Maroseyka street 11, 3F
  A nice clean hostel. The owner, Dennis, is really helpful,

• Napoleon Hostel

  phone: +7 495 628-6695
  address: Maly Zlatoustinskiy 2 (4F)

• Hostel Dom

  phone: +7 916 671-0120
  address: Podsosenskiy per, 21 stroenie 5
  Nice, clean and really cosy hostel located in the centre of the capital’s creative life with the British Higher School of Art and Design, the legendary Solyanka cafe and club, the art and design centres Artplay and Winzavod, Coffee Bean and Kofemania cafe( with the best coffee in Moscow) nearby. Hostel Dom also provides "invitations" for Russian Tourist visas.

Mid-range

Splurge

• Elegant Hotel

  phone: +7 495 625-9832
  address: Pokrovka, 32
  All rooms have air-conditioning, a cable TV, and an en-suite toilet and bath. Some of its amenities are restaurant and bar, a business center, and a beauty parlor.

Post offices

• Main Post Office

  phone: +7 495 624-0250
  address: Ul. Myasnitskaya (Мясницкая ул.), 26
  Charge for international postcards: ordinary , by air , registered . More charges - At the first hall, (Zal no.1) is where you can buy stamps (marki) and send packages of printed material. The travel time is around two to three weeks. For a parcel of non-printed material, try other office, which has a separate entrance to the main building.