Name: Moscow
Country: Russia
Time zone: GMT +3
Area: 1091 sq.km.
Population: 11,552 million (2011)
Founded in: 1147
Climate: moderately continental
Average temperature: -3°C to -12°C in winter, +15°C to +28°C in summer
Area code: +7 (495), (499)
Airports: Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo, Vnukovo
Train stations: Belorussky, Kazansky, Kievsky, Kurskysky, Leningradsky, Paveletsky, Rizhsky, Savyolovsky, Yaroslavsky
Ports: Severny, Yuzhny
Bus stations: Tsentralny
Subway: 12 lines; 196 stations
Religious buildings: Orthodox: Christ the Saviour Cathedral, Annunciation Cathedral, Assumption Cathedral, Ivan the Great Bell Tower, Kazan Cathedral, Epiphany Cathedral in Elokhovo, Ascennsion Church in Kolomenskoe, Resurrection of Christ Church in Kadashy, Resurrection of Christ Church in Sokolniki, All Saints Chirch in Kulishky, St. Clement the Pope Church, St. Nicholas the Wonderworker Church in Zvonari, Novodevichy Convent, Donskoy Monastery, Novospassky Monastery, Sts.Martha and Mary Convent, Krutitsky Metochion; Catholic: St.Louis of France Church, Immaculate Conception of the Most Holy Virgin Mary Church; Lutheran: Holy trinity Church, St.Peter and Paul Cathedral; Muslim: Cathedral Mosque, Memorial Mosque at Poklonnaya Hil; Moscow Choral Synagogue, Memorial Synagogue at Poklonnaya Hill
Architectural landmarks: the Kremlin, Red Square, Spasskaya Tower, Tsar Bell, Tsar Cannon, Voskresenskie Gates, St.Basil Cathedral, Place of Skulls, Pashkov House, Old Gostiny Dvor, House of Unions, Manege, Emperor's Foster House, Hospitage, Petrovsky Road Palace, Shukhovskaya Tower, Ostankino Tower
Statues and memorials: Minin and Pozharsky, A.Pushkin, V. Mayakovsky, Peter the Great, Y.Gagarin, Y.Dolgoruky, G. Zhukov, M.Kutuzov, Heroes of Plevna, Worker and Kolkhoz Woman, Triumphal Gate, Unkown Soldier Tomb, Victory Park
Museums: Moscow Kremlin State History and Culture Museum-Reserve, Diamond Fund, Armoury, State History Museum, Modern History of Russia, Lenin Mausoleum and Kremlin Wall Necropolis, Pushkin State Fine Arts Museum, Private Collection Museum, State Tretyakov Gallery, Pushkin's State Museum, Modern Art Museum, Garage Modern Culture Centre, Vinzavod Modern Art Centre, State Oriental Art Museum, Rublev Central Museum of Old Russian Culture and Art, Polytechnic Museum, Central Great Patriotic war Museum, Central Military Museum, State Darwin Museum, Orlov Paleonthology Musem, Timiryazev State biology Museim, Vernadsky State Geology Museum, Schusev State Architecture Museum, Bakhrushin Theatre Museum, Borodino Battle Panorama-Museum, Cosmonautics Memorial Museum, Moscow House of Photography, Central Artist House, Roerich's International Centre, Planetarium, Tsaritsyno State History, Achitecture, Art and Landscape Museum-Reserve, Kolomenskoye State Art, History, Architecture, Nature nad Landscape Museum-Reserve, Kuskovo Estate-Museum, Ostankino Estate-Museum, Kuzminki-Lyublino Nature and History Park
House-Museums of: V.Mayakovsky, A.Pushkin, M.Bulgakov, A.Gertsen, A.Skryabin, L.Tolstoy, M.Tsvetayeva, A.Chekhov, K.Stanislavsky, F.Shalyapin, S.Korolyov, V.Vasnetsov, V.Bryusov
Theatres: State Academic Bolshoi Theatre of Russia, State Academic Maly Theatre, Vakhtangov State Academic Theatre, Mossovet State Academic Theatre, Lenkom State Academic Theatre, Pushkin Drama Theatre, Stanislavsky Drama Theatre, Gorky Academic Art Theatre, Chekhov Art Theatre, Ermolova Drama Theatre, Mayakovsky Academic Theatre, Malaya Bronnaya Drama Theatre, Estrada State Theatre, Raykin Satirikon State Theatre, Bolshaya Srpukhovskaya Maly Drama Theatre, Satire Academic Theatre, Central Academic Russian Army Theatre, Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Academic Music Theatre, Moskovskaya Operetta State Academic Theatre, Pokrovsky State Academic Chamber Music Theatre, Romen Music and Drama Gypsy Theatre, Novaya Opera Theatre, Sovremennik Theatre, State Theatre of Nations, Oleg Tabakov’s Studio Theatre, Kalyagin's Et Cetera Theatre, Fomenko’s Workshop Theatre, Taganka Theatre, Roman Viktyuk’s Theatre, Rozovsky’s U Nikitskikh Vorot Theatre, Community of Taganka Actors, Film Actor State Theatre, Kremlin Ballet Theatre, School of Modern Play Theatre, Kazantsev and Roschin’s Dramaturgy and Direction Centre, Zhenovach’s Theatrical Art Studio, Young Spectator's Theatre, Russian Academic Young Theatre, Nayalya Sats State Academic Children's Musical Theatre, Obraztsov Central State Academic Puppet Theatre
Natural sites and parks: Aleksandrovky Garden, Neskuchny Garden, Gorky Culture and Leisure Park, Patriarshiye Prudy Park, Chistiye Prudy Park, Hermitage Garden, Losiny Ostrov Park, Izmailovo Park, Sokolniki Park, Vorontsovo Park, Vorobyovo Hills, Moscow State University Botanical Garden, Tsitsin RAN Main Botanical Garden
Expo centres: All-Russia Exhibition Centre (former VDNKh), Crocus-Expo, Expo-Centre, Manege, Sokolniki
Sports venues and clubs: Lokomotiv Stadium (FC Lokomotiv), Luzhniki Stadium (FC Spartak, FC CSKA), Luzhniki Minor Arena (HC Dynamo), Sokolniki Sports Palace (HC Spartak, JHC Spartak), CSKA Ice Sports Complex (HC CSKA, JHC Krasnaya Armiya), Dynamo Sports Palace in Krylatskoye (BC Dynamo, WBC Dynamo, MFC Dynamo), Dynamo Sports Palace (VC Dynamo), Megasport Sports Palace, Druzhba Universal Sports Hall (WVP Dynamo), Universal Sports Complex CSKA (BC CSKA, MFC CSKA), Streltsov Sports Complex (FC Torpedo), Yarygin Wrestling Palace, Olympiysky Sports Complex, Krylatskoye Sports Complex, Krylatsloye Ice Sports Palace, Krylatskoye Cycle Race Track, Krylatskoye Rowing Venue, Bitsa Equestrian Sports Complex
Performance sites: Grand Kremlin Palace, International House of Music, Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, Tchaikovsky State Conservatory, Crocus City Hall, Pillar Hall of the House of Unions, Youth Palace, Barvikha Luxury Village, Gorbunov Palace of Culture, Arena Moscow
Entertainment sites: Grand State Circus, Nikulin Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard, Zoo, Kva-Kva-Park Water Park, Fantasy Water Park, Snezh.com Mountain Skiing Complex
Restaurants of national cuisine: Russian: Pushkin Staraya Bashnya, Oblomov, Oprichnik, Khlebosol, Ilya Muromets, Denis Davyar, Yar, Godunov, Sudar
