The original construction on the roof of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which is also called "golden brains", generated a lot of myths among the people. Beginning from the unsophisticated ones that this construction is covered with the solar panels to supply electricity to the building and finishing with the rumor that the decorative elements on ( Read more... )

Liublino estate is located almost in five minutes from the metro station Volzhskaya in Moscow. It was built on the bank of Liublinsky pond by a Moscow rich man, never married and a true original - A. Durasov. The estate is one of the unique areas of modern Moscow that was first mentioned in XVI century sources. In winter it is especially beautiful.
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This burnt abandoned maternity hospital is located in a small town Ramenskoe in Moscow region. The hospital was burnt in 2008 and hasn't been restored yet. Its best years are in the past... Now it is almost impossible to get to the second floor of the building. Just a small black puppy was walking around the empty corridors. In one of the operating ( Read more... )

The children's camp Berezki is located in Moscow region not far from Istra. It could be still one of the richest children's camp in the country, but, unfortunately, it stuck somewhere in the 1980s and has been completely abandoned for many years. Beside a dining hall, a library and some living buildings, here you can find a big concert hall and an ( Read more... )

In this article I would like to show you some of my photos, that I've never published before, taken on the roofs of different buildings in Moscow.


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In the pictures, you can see three Moscow buildings with unusual interior. I promised not to tell anyone the addresses of the first two houses, but the third one is located in Miliutinskiy Lane, 20/2. It is the former Tenement Houses of "Fetter and Ghinckel" Stock-company. The house is famous for many mistical stories which happened inside it and ( Read more... )

At Leninskiy Prospect in Moscow, there is one of the oldest in Europe mineralogical museums. The museum is close related to the history of mineralogy in Russia. All the famous Russian mineralogists worked at the museum or their activity was related to it in some way. Museum was founded in Saint-Petersburg in 1716 as a mineral cabinet of Kunstkammer ( Read more... )

These two abandoned buildings, multiple dwellings in the past, face each other at Andronyevskaya Square, between Andronyevskiy Passage and Syezjinskiy Lane. They say that the houses are full of ghosts.


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From the 28th of November to the 2nd of December at the Central House of Artists in Krimskiy Val, the 14th International Book Fair for High-Quality Non-Fiction will be hosted. More than 250 universal and specialized publishers and literary associations from 20 countries will present to readers a wide range of humanitarian, educational, scientific ( Read more... )

In Kuntsevo district, at the intersection of two Moscow streets - Partizanskaya and Molodogvardeyskaya, there is a wonderful wooden yard for children created by a local resident, a father of three kids - Andrew Salnikov. Everything in the playground is made from wood! An automobile "Partisan" and a trailer with a cannon, a house of Baba Yaga (a ( Read more... )