When you look at the planes from the ground, they are just like small birds floating across the sky. But when you take a closer look, you will feel that they are gigantic and strong animals. You can feel the power of these iron birds if you get to Sheremetyevo Airport and park under the line of landing!


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This interesting balcony was found in Natasha Kovshova street, in Ochakovo-Matveevskoe district. Judging by the windows, the whole apartment looks like a jail.


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Bazillium Circus and Cafe is an amazing place in Moscow. First of all, its construction and interior are unique. The circus can be easily transformed to any other place. However, it offers its visitors comfort and luxury, which you can seldom see at any other portable circus of such kind. Currently, the circus is located on the territory of the All ( Read more... )

Red double-decker buses appeared on the streets of Moscow at the end of August. They take standard routes around the historical center of the city. The project was created by a Spanish company City Sightseeing with assistance from the Moscow Committee for Tourism and Hotel Industry and Moscow Transport Department. The Spanish company is the biggest ( Read more... )

On the first floor of Ukraina Hotel, you can see at no charge a unique small-scale model of Moscow called "Moscow is the capital of the USSR". The size of the model is impressive: 16 meters in width, 6 meters in height and 9,5 meters in depth. The total area is 304,9 m2. The historical center of Moscow and its nearest regions of 1977 are created in ( Read more... )

In Tatarskaya street you can find a very unusual and interesting entrance hall in one of the buildings. The hall is still in its original condition. Of course, it needs serious repair, but when you are standing inside you have such wonderful feelings, like you are looking at real pictures by the famous artist Escher.


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It is a rare case to see so many different lamps on one small territory of the city. Bolshoy Spasoglinishevsky Lane is located in the center of Moscow in Basmanniy region, between Maroseyka and Solyanka streets. It is 420 meters long.


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Terekhovo is the last village in Moscow on the territory of Horoshevo-Mnevniki region. According to the government resolution, the village is planned to be demolished.

Terekhovo has a long history. It was first mentioned in the cadasters of 1644-1646. Nowadays there are 31 houses and 87 inhabitants registered in the village. It doesn't have water ( Read more... )

In the village Serednikovo of Moscow region, you can find a film set, created in the style of Vyborg of the 18th century. Vyborg is a town on the Baltic coast of Russia, founded in 1293. It is the unique and the only Western European city with a history dating back to the deep Middle Ages. The film set looks very real. It's a favourite place of ( Read more... )

   Not far from Kitay-Gorod metro station and Ivanovskaya Gorka, there is an old pigeon-house in the former doorkeeper's lodge built in 1900. An affable and enthusiastic pensioner, Vyacheslav Solokhin, looks after it. Born in 1939, Vyacheslav has been a pigeon fancier for more than 24 years. There are about 80 birds in his collection. You can find ( Read more... )