Seven Sisters
by sue_stone
In the 1940’s, Stalin decided that Moscow was lacking in skyscrapers, and he commissioned the construction of 7 amazing Gothic looking buildings, nick-named the Seven Sisters.
They are one of the things that I was really looking forward to seeing in Moscow, and was not disappointed – they are spectacular! We didn’t get the chance to see them all, but did get a close up look at the Foreign Affairs Ministry, and a glimpse of the Hotel Ukraina and the Kotelnicheskaya Apartment block.
http://www.moscow-life.com/moscow/seven-sisters
Times changed dramatically ....
by MEdelmann
.... and we wanted to visit the "All Union Exhibition", that exhibition which the soviets were so proud of ... but it was closed two days before we departed to Moscow and so our guide had to changed the visiting programme...
It seemed that the Russians hated the old system, because there is no other explaination why the closed the exhibition, renamed all the names of streets, squares and metro stations ...
The picture on your left shows the Trinity Tower, which is also an entrance to the Kremlin and tourists are only allowed here to go inside ....
Moscow International Business Centre
by HORSCHECK
The Moscow International Business Centre (MIBC), often referred to as Moscow City, is a newly built commercial district in Moscow.
First plannings of it started in 1992 and if money allows the project should be finished by 2012.
The district consists of about 25 new buildings such as offices, hotels, apartments, restaurants, shops and entertainment centres. Most of these are skyscrapers of more than 100 m in height.
The district is even home to Europe's two tallest buildings: The 302 metre tall City of Capitals Moscow Tower (2009) and the 269 metre tall Naberezhnaya Tower (2007).
Directions:
The Moscow International Business Centre (MIBC) is situated on the Krasnopresnenskaya embankment of the river Moskva, approximately 4 km west of Red Square. The nearest metro stop is "Mezhdunarodnaya" on the light blue line.
Plaques
by mikey_e
Moscow may be a city that is experimenting (quite wildly) with commercialism and the sort of hedonism long denied its residents under the Soviet régime, but there is no shortage of reminders of the love of culture, history and education that so marks the Russian character. One of the best examples is the plethora of plaques and signs commemorating historic events and personalities all around Moscow. You see them everywhere - on the sides of buildings, on walls, in parks... of course, they're entirely in Russian, which makes it difficult to understand the historical significance of the plaque if you don't speak the language. Some of them are quite intricate, especially when they relate to inventors and scientists (as there are often pictures of molecules or inventions together with a likeness of the individual). More often than not, they commemorate the buildings in which historical events occured - from auditoriums in which Lenin delivered his first addresses after the Russian Revolution, to the buildings in which accords relating to the official relations between the USSR and Mongolia were signed.
Visa
by HORSCHECK
Unfortunately, people from mayn countries still need a visa for travelling to Russia. The most common visa is the tourist visa. If you are on a package tour the formalities will be sorted out for you by the travel agency.
If you are an independent traveller you firstly need an invitation letter from a prebooked accomodation. With this invitation you can apply for the visa at your local embassy.
On arrival in Russia you should get an Immigration Card and if you plan to stay more than 3 days you also need a registration in Russia.
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Gorky Park, Moscow
Thank God there everywhere in the world
Moscow International Business Centre
House on the Embankment
