This is a list of major tourist attractions in the

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Museums

Religious buildings

Convents and monasteries

* St. Andronik Monastery * Epiphany Monastery * Chudov Monastery * Danilov Monastery * Donskoy Monastery * Krutitsy * Marfo-Mariinsky Convent * Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery * Novodevichy Convent * Novospassky Monastery * Nikolo-Perervinsky Monastery * Simonov Monastery * Sretensky Monastery * Ascension Convent * Vysokopetrovsky Monastery * Zaikonospassky monastery *

Chrysostom Monastery The Chrysostom Monastery () was a monastery in Moscow. It was consecrated to Saint John Chrysostom (Russian: ''Ivan Zlatoust''). History The cloister to the east from the Kitai-gorod was first mentioned in 1412 when a Novgorod archdeacon was bu ...

Churches

Orthodox: *

Saint Basil's Cathedral The Cathedral of Vasily the Blessed (), known in English as Saint Basil's Cathedral, is an Orthodox church in Red Square of Moscow, and is one of the most popular cultural symbols of Russia. The building, now a museum, is officially known as ...

Cathedral of Christ the Saviour The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (, ) is a Russian Orthodox Church, Russian Orthodox cathedral in Moscow, Russia, on the northern bank of the Moskva River, a few hundred metres southwest of the Kremlin. With an overall height of , it is the ...

* Yelokhovo Cathedral * Kazan Cathedral * Church of the Intercession at Fili * St Clement's Church, Moscow * Nativity Church in Putinki * Iberian Gate and Chapel * Church of St. John the Warrior * Church of St. Nicholas in Khamovniki * Church of All Saints, Moscow * Church of the Savior on Bolvany Catholic: * Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception (Moscow)

Religious buildings of other religions

* Moscow Cathedral Mosque * Moscow Choral Synagogue

Theatres

Moscow GUM Middle Line view from 2nd floor

* Moscow Art Theatre *

Bolshoi Theatre The Bolshoi Theatre ( rus, Большо́й теа́тр, r=Bol'shoy teatr, p=bɐlʲˈʂoj tʲɪˈat(ə)r, t=Grand Theater) is a historic opera house in Moscow, Russia, originally designed by architect Joseph Bové. Before the October Revolutio ...

* Lenkom Theatre * Yermolova Theatre * Maly Theatre

Stadiums

* Eduard Streltsov Stadium *

Luzhniki Stadium The Grand Sports Arena of the Luzhniki Olympic Complex, commonly known as Luzhniki Stadium, is the national stadium of Russia, located in its capital city, Moscow. Its total seating capacity of 78,011 makes it the List of football stadiums in R ...

* Young Pioneers Stadium *

Dynamo Sports Palace Dynamo Palace of Sports () is an indoor sporting arena located in Khovrino District, Moscow, Russia. The capacity of the arena is 5,000. It was built during the preparations for the 1980 Summer Olympics, hosted by Moscow, USSR and was used as ...

* Dynamo Stadium * Lokomotiv Stadium * Khodynka Arena

Film studios

Mosfilm Mosfilm (, ''Mosfil’m'' , initialism and portmanteau of Moscow Films) is a film studio in Moscow which is among the largest and oldest in the Russian Federation and in Europe. Founded in 1924 in the USSR as a production unit of that nation's fi ...

* Soyuzmultfilm * Gorky Film Studio

Monuments and sculptures

* Worker and Kolkhoz Woman * Monument to Alexander II * Monument to Minin and Pozharsky *

Monument to the Conquerors of Space A monument is a type of structure that was explicitly created to commemorate a person or event, or which has become relevant to a social group as a part of their remembrance of historic times or cultural heritage, due to its artistic, historical ...

* Children Are the Victims of Adult Vices by Mikhail Shemyakin, located in Bolotnaya (Marsh) Square

Government buildings

* White House, Moscow * Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation

Modern buildings

* Triumph-Palace * Golden Ring Hotel

Moscow International Business Center

* City Hall and City Duma * Federation Tower * Russia Tower

Other sights

* Tallest buildings * Central Moscow Hippodrome * Kitai-gorod * Moscow City Hall * Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture * Moscow House of Nationalities * State Public Science and Technical Library * Manege * Vlakhernskoye-Kuzminki * Lubyanka (KGB) * Moscow Zoo *

Ostankino Tower Ostankino Tower () is a television and radio tower in Moscow, Russia, owned by the Moscow branch of unitary enterprise Russian TV and Radio Broadcasting Network. Standing , it was designed by Nikolai Nikitin. , it is the tallest free-standin ...

* Patriarch's Ponds * Menshikov Tower * Moscow Gostiny Dvor * Moscow Orphanage * Moscow State Technical University * Petrovsky Passage * Hotel Metropol * Tsoi Wall

Natural and urban attractions

Avenues, boulevards, and streets

* Tsvetnoy Boulevard * Garden Ring * Kutuzovsky Prospekt * Leningradsky Prospekt * New Arbat Street * Tretyakov Drive * Old Arbat * Cosmonauts Alley * Kuznetsky Most *

Boulevard Ring The Boulevard Ring (; transliteration: ''Bulvarnoye Koltso'') is Moscow's second innermost ring road (the first is formed by the Central Squares of Moscow running along the former walls of Kitai-gorod). Boulevards form a semicircular chain along ...

* Great Lubyanka Street *

Tverskaya Street Tverskaya Street ( rus, Тверская улица, p=tvʲɪrˈskajə ˈulʲɪt͡sə), known between 1935 and 1990 as Gorky Street (), is the main radial road, radial street in Moscow. The street runs Northwest from the central Manezhnaya Squ ...

* Petrovka Street * Sadovnicheskaya Street * Povarskaya Street

Squares

Red Square Red Square ( rus, Красная площадь, Krasnaya ploshchad', p=ˈkrasnəjə ˈploɕːɪtʲ) is one of the oldest and largest town square, squares in Moscow, Russia. It is located in Moscow's historic centre, along the eastern walls of ...

* Komsomolskaya Square * Lubyanka Square * Manezhnaya Square * Pushkinskaya Square * Slavyanskaya Square * Theatre Square

Bridges

List of bridges in Moscow This is a partial list of bridges of Moscow, Russia, including existing rail, road and foot bridges over Moskva River, Moscow Canal, Vodootvodny Canal within the MKAD beltway limits and the bridges over Yauza River downstream from Rostokino Distri ...

Hills

* Poklonnaya Hill *

Sparrow Hills Sparrow Hills (, ), formerly known as Lenin Hills (, ), is a hill on the right bank of the Moskva River and one of the highest points in Moscow, reaching a height of above the river level. The observation platform is on a steep bank above ...

Parks and gardens

* All-Russia Exhibition Centre (until 1992 known as the "Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy", VDNKh) * Bauman Garden * Botanical Garden of Academy of Sciences * Gorky Park * Izmaylovskiy Park * Kolomenskoye * Losiny Ostrov National Park * Neskuchniy Garden * Sokolniki Park * Tsaritsyno Park Fountain Europe Square Moscow

* Zaryadye Park

Districts

* Arbat * Izmaylovo * Khamovniki * Kitay-gorod * Krasnoselsky * Kuzminki * Lefortovo * Maryina roshcha * Meshchansky * Presnensky * Sokolniki * Tagansky * Tsaritsyno * Tverskoy * Yakimanka * Zamoskvorechye

Moskva River The Moskva (, ''Moskva-reka'') is a river that flows through western Russia. It rises about west of Moscow and flows roughly east through the Smolensk and Moscow Oblasts, passing through central Moscow. About southeast of Moscow, at the cit ...

* Vodootvodny Canal * Balchug

Transportal architecture

Moscow rail terminals

The nine Moscow rail terminals are located within a kilometer or two outside of the Garden Ring. Below they are listed clockwise, along with a sample of destinations served by each one, starting with the three stations at Komsomolskaya Square: * Leningradsky Rail Terminal (

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the List of cities and towns in Russia by population, second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the Neva, River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland ...

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Helsinki Helsinki () is the Capital city, capital and most populous List of cities and towns in Finland, city in Finland. It is on the shore of the Gulf of Finland and is the seat of southern Finland's Uusimaa region. About people live in the municipali ...

Murmansk Murmansk () is a port city and the administrative center of Murmansk Oblast in the far Far North (Russia), northwest part of Russia. It is the world's largest city north of the Arctic Circle and sits on both slopes and banks of a modest fjord, Ko ...

) * Yaroslavsky Rail Terminal (

Yaroslavl Yaroslavl (; , ) is a city and the administrative center of Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, located northeast of Moscow. The historic part of the city is a World Heritage Site, and is located at the confluence of the Volga and the Kotorosl rivers. ...

Arkhangelsk Arkhangelsk (, ) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the administrative center of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. It lies on both banks of the Northern Dvina near its mouth into the White Sea. The city spreads for over along the ...

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) * Kazanskiy Rail Terminal (

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) * Kursky Rail Terminal (

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) * Paveletskiy Rail Terminal ( Pavelets,

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) * Kievsky Rail Terminal (

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) * Belorussky Rail Terminal (

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) * Savyolovskiy Rail Terminal ( Savyolovo,

Dubna Dubna ( rus, Дубна́, p=dʊbˈna) is a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It has a status of '' naukograd'' (i.e. town of science), being home to the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, an international nuclear physics research center and o ...

) * Rizhsky Rail Terminal (

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Airports

There are five airports serving Moscow: * Vnukovo International Airport * Sheremetyevo International Airport * Domodedovo International Airport * Zhukovsky International Airport * Ostafievo International Airport

Moscow Metro stations

* Komsomolskaya (Line 1) * Krasniye Vorota * Kropotkinskaya * Vorobyovy Gory * Mayakovskaya * Novokuznetskaya * Avtozavodskaya * Park Pobedy * Kiyevskaya(Line 3) * Arbatskaya (Line 3) * Ploshchad Revolyutsii * Elektrozavodskaya * Taganskaya (Line 5) * Komsomolskaya (Line 5) * Prospekt Mira (Line 5) * Novoslobodskaya * Kiyevskaya (Line 5) * Pushkinskaya * Kuznetsky most * Nagatinskaya

Sights which do not exist

Destroyed or lost sights

* Rossiya Hotel (demolished in March 2006) * Hotel Moskva (demolished in 2004; rebuild in 2014) * Red Gate * Sukharev Tower

Sights which were never built

* Palace of Soviets * Pantheon, Moscow * Tatlin's Tower * Narkomtiazhprom * Zaryadye Administrative Building {{Lists of tourist attractions in Russia by federal subject List Tourist attractions