MOSCOW : INTERNET CABINS
by swesn
Internet cabins appear to be a little bit more difficult to find because Moscow is SO HUGE!
Go to the Okhotny Ryad Shopping Mall. There is one very big internet provider located at the basement next to the food court. Turn right when you reach the bottom of the escalator.
It is open 24 hours, I believe. If you go early, like before 9am and stay late, like after 9pm (I cannot really recall the exact time), the price per hour is MUCH CHEAPER.
The mall may be closed at those hours. There are some guards standing at the entrance. Just do the 'keyboard-typing' motion and mouth 'INTERNET' and they let you in.
Another internet cabin is found along Novy Arbat ul. Walk towards west, after a huge shopping mall on the left side of Novy Arbat ul, watch out for the INTERNET sign. But this is a little bit more expensive than the one at Okhotny Ryad Mall.
Train stations in Moscow
by HORSCHECK
Moscow has 8 main train stations, which are all connected to the metro. Most of them are located on the circle metro line (brown line).
Only near the metro station "Komsomolskaya" you find three trains stations: Yaroslavskiy Vokzal for trains to Siberia, Leningradskiy Vokzal for trains to St. Petersburg and Kazanskiy Station for trains to Central Asia.
The other train stations are Belorusskiy, Rizhskiy, Kievskiy, Kurskiy and Paveletskiy Vokzal.
Most of the train stations are well worth a visit both from the outside and the inside.
My favourite train station in Moscow is Kazanskiy Vokzal. For more information about this station, please have a look at my "Of the beaten Path" tips".
Ivan The Great Bell Tower
by bugulma
The Bell tower complex began to build in 1505-1508. 100 years later the highest building of the complex was built and it is 81 meters high. Church near of the Bell Tower was built in 30-s of XVI centuries. Bell Tower is used nowadays for the different expositions (for example, there was orders exhibition when I was there last time). In 1812 Napoleon soldiers blew the complex but fortunately the main bell wasn't damaged at all. In 1814-1815 the complex was reconstructed with bells of XVI-XVII centuries.
Everyone's getting married... or so it seems
by call_me_rhia
Everyone's getting married in Moscow... or so it seems. obviously this is not the truth - but it'll seem so if you visit tourist attractions and sites. Why?
Well, it seems customary for people who get married to tour all tourist sites and have their wedding pictures taken there. And what's a wedding picture without a drink and a toast?
recently married people - it appears - have a blast on their wedding day - traveling in huge limousines from one place to the other - having champagne at each place... you really wish the day would never end.
No Benches
by tini58de
It was quite new to me, that in the Russian Orthodox Church there are no benches! The congregation is standing during the whole service! Just a very few seats are reserved for the elderly who are physically not capable of doing this.
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Monument to Minin and Pozharsky in Moscow
The Kremlin, Saviour Tower Sep 2010
Metro station: Partisanskaya
Inside the stadium for Russia : Germany (10.2009)
