Visit Website. Built between and and known as the Upper Trading Rows until the s, the legendary store is now home to over boutiques selling a variety of brands: from luxurious Dior to the more affordable Zara. Even if shopping is not on your list of what to do in Moscow, the GUM is still worth a visit; the glass-roofed arcade faces Red Square and offers a variety of classy eateries.
With lots of cafes and restaurants , live music performers and caricaturists, as well as souvenir shops and tattoo parlours, monuments and a theatre, Arbat draws crowds of visitors every day.
Old Arbat Street, Moscow, Russia. Art Gallery. Built between and , Tretyakov Gallery started as the private collection of the Tretyakov brothers, who were 19th-century philanthropists. Designed by Viktor Vasnetsov, the gallery is home to one of the largest collections of Russian art in the world. Building, Museum.
The largest foreign art museum in Moscow comprises three branches housing a collection of incredible works by masters of ancient civilisations, the Italian Renaissance and the Dutch Golden Age. The main building contains masterpieces by Botticelli, Tiepolo, Veronese and Rembrandt, some of which had never been displayed before. The Gallery of European and American Art, located next door, stores an incredible collection of impressionist and post-impressionist paintings.
The park is also home to an open-air movie theatre and one of the less obvious places to visit in Moscow for art lovers, the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art. Luzhniki embankment, Moscow, Russia. Building, Theatre, Theater. Opened in , the legendary Bolshoi Theatre is one of the pest places in Moscow for an evening of entertainment.
Alongside the classics, the theatre also stages contemporary works by young international composers and choreographers. The centre started out as the all-Soviet agricultural exhibition in , and now serves as an open-air museum of Soviet architecture. With the iconic fountain at its entrance, the park complex is home to a number of museums, shopping pavilions, multiple eateries , a massive oceanarium, a zip-line, a horse-riding rink and a Russian space shuttle.
In winter a skating rink opens — the largest in Europe. Museum, Park. The former summer residence of Empress Catherine the Great was commissioned in , and succumbed to deterioration during the Soviet era. It is the longest escalator ever produced in Germany. So what will Moscow look like in the future?
It will be the city of skyscrapers. Certainly, Moscow has a lot of catching up to do if it wants to compete with cities like Hong Kong or New York City , which respectively have and buildings over meters in height, compared to only 44 in Moscow. At the moment, the largest number of high-rise projects of all time are being built and designed in Moscow. City of Capitals , picture by IndexxRus, taken from commons. Evolution Tower , picture by Ninaras, taken from commons.
OKO Towers , picture by Igor, taken from commons. Capital Towers , picture by Pavel Kazachkov, taken from flickr. Skolkovo Innovation Center , picture by Aleksandr Zykov, taken from flickr. Hypercube , picture by Feneamina, taken from commons.
Matrex , picture by Stiluuus, taken from commons. We collect personal stories about urban landmarks and future ideas for the sustainable development of cities worldwide. Do you want to be part of Urban Hub? Subscribe Visit us on Facebook. Construction has been on the rise in Moscow since the turn of the 21st century. Moscow is the only European city among the top 10 cities with the most buildings of meters or higher.
Below we look into some of the most interesting construction projects in the Russian capital and get some insight from a local expert who has been watching the construction boom since the beginning: Sergey Smirnov, Senior Sales Manager at thyssenkrupp Elevator in Moscow. Urban projects in Chicago. Cities of the future. Mark Abadi. A typical breakfast in Moscow is a kolbasa sausage on rye bread with cheese. Traffic in Moscow is notoriously bad — it's normal to commute for an hour or more to get to work each morning.
The Moscow Metro is another transportation option. But trains are extremely crowded, and stations are often inconveniently located for many residents.
In the city center, the most common jobs are restaurant and hotel staff, according to the consulting company Awara.
Children go to school from September to May. A typical school day runs from around 8 a. A typical school field trip might be to Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery, which houses more than , works. On the streets of Moscow, hawkers sell their goods. A typical lunch might include kotlety — meatballs made from minced pork, beef, or chicken — and mashed potatoes. But plenty of Muscovites eat fast food from national chains like Teremok, which specializes in pancakes and competes against western classics like McDonald's and Subway.
Kompot is the beverage of choice during the day. It's a sweet, syrupy drink made from fruits like strawberries or sour cherries. After work, it's another round of interminable traffic. In their free time, Muscovites love to go shopping.
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