Informal look at Moscow
This Saturday, 19th of March Moscow was celebrating the Saint Patrick’s Day. There were two parades – an official one at Sokolniki and unofficial – at Arbat. This is the report from Arbat.
1. Unlike the Sokolniki celebration, that seemed dull and poorly organized for me, the action at Arbat was a real festival. All the guests were really happy. I immediately got to the dance after arrival.
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Leave a CommentI was nearby the mosque and couldn’t resist the desire to take some photos.
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Leave a CommentA part of the blue line from “Kievskaya” to “Kurskaya” was closed today. Three station were not operating: “Ploshad Revolutsii”, “Arbatskaya” and “Smolenskaya”, due to the total repair of the rails.
1. Not only the rails were being repaired: everything was cleaned and scrubbed.
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Leave a CommentI think all the Muscovites has already visited this place. There are millions of photos from this roof. But I prefer to visit cool places myself and form my own opinion about them.
I’ve got to the observation deck at the cloudy Saturday morning.
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Leave a CommentI’ve got some photos of the “Seven sisters” from different angles. Looks like quite a good collection. For me, they are one of the main symbols of Moscow, just like the golden domes of the cathedral.
Continue reading Moscow. The postcards with the Stalinist skyscrapers
Leave a CommentI love this place. It is always free from people. Nobody knows about it, perhaps. A perfect view to Teatralnaya square, the Hotel Metropol Moscow and the domes at Nikolskaya Street opens from here. There is a staircase between the New Stage and the main building of the Bolshoi Theatre, which leads to this cool place.
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Leave a CommentThis time Zoom has transformed sadly sticking out pipe near Mayakovskaya metro station into a mop. As you correctly guessed already, a hero, holding it, is Chief from Ken Kesey’s novel “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, that was later filmed by Milos Forman. In the film Chief was played by Will Sampson, a full-blooded Muscogee, from the Creek People.
If you haven’t seen the film, watch it necessarily.
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Leave a CommentEveryone knows about marshal Zhukov, standing near Red square, but few people know about marshal Zhukov at the prospect named after him. And not everyone of these who knows about the park, in which the second monument is placed, knows that the square in front of it has its own name.
This is marshal Babadjanyan square, located where Horoshevskoe highway divides into marshal Zhukov prospect and Mnyovinka street. Yes, nowadays there is a simple semaphore and there always are several car rows, waiting for the allowing signal to make a turn.
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Leave a CommentYesterday I was telling you about little-known Marshal Babadjanyan square. Today I’ll show you Marshal Zhukov park, that is placed nearby.
This is the crossing of Marshal Zhukov street and Mnyovinka street.
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