Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #12 in Moscow, Russia
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4.5 km
50 m
Explore Moscow in Russia with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.
Activities in MoscowIndividual Sights in MoscowSight 1: Храм Покрова Пресвятой Богородицы
The Church of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos in Rubtsovo is a Edinoverie Orthodox church in the Basmanny District of Moscow. It belongs to the Epiphany Deanery of the Moscow Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church. The Patriarchal Center of the Old Russian Liturgical Tradition operates at the church.
Sight 2: Елизаветинский дворец
The suburban palace of Elizabeth Petrovna is a domestic building in Moscow.
Sight 3: А. В. Мазунову
The Last Address is a civic initiative to commemorate the victims of repressions in the Soviet Union. The essence of the initiative is that ordinary people deserve to be commemorated, not only "VIPs" which typically receive memorial plaques. A small commemorative plaque (palm-sized) is installed on the houses known as the last residential addresses of those arrested. Every commemorative plaque is dedicated to one person only, with the project operating according to the motto "One name, one life, one sign".
Sight 4: А. А. Пушкину
Alexander Aleksandrovich Pushkin was a Russian military leader, general of cavalry (1908). A nobleman, from the Pushkin family, the eldest son of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin. The owner of the Lvovka estate.
Sight 5: Н. Ф. Гастелло
Captain Nikolai Frantsevich Gastello was a Russian aviator and a Hero of the Soviet Union. He is one of the best known Soviet war heroes, being the best known Soviet pilot to conduct a "fire taran" – a suicide action by the pilot of an aircraft on fire, flying into a target with the intention of setting it alight.
Sight 6: Roman Viktyuk Theatre
Theater Roman Viktyuk is the Moscow Drama Theater.
Sight 7: Дом культуры имени Русакова
The Rusakov Workers' Club in Moscow is a notable example of constructivist architecture. Designed by Konstantin Melnikov, it was constructed in 1927–28. The club is built on a fan-shaped plan, with three cantilevered concrete seating areas rising above the base. Each of these volumes can be used as a separate auditorium, and combined they result in a capacity of over 1,000 people. At the rear of the building are more conventional offices. The only visible materials used in its construction are concrete, brick and glass. The function of the building is to some extent expressed in the exterior, which Melnikov described as a "tensed muscle".
Sight 8: Константинов Анатолий Устинович
Anatoly Ustinovich Konstantinov was a senior military officer who served as commander of the Moscow Air Defence District from 1980 to 1987. During World War II, he was a fighter pilot and a flying ace for which he was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.
Sight 9: храм Воскресения Христова
The Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Sokolniki is an Orthodox church located in the Sokolniki district of the Eastern Administrative District of Moscow. It belongs to the Resurrection Deanery of the Moscow Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Sight 10: Н. Гастелло
The Gastello Memorial is a memorial dedicated to the famous pilot of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union, Nikolai Frantsevich Gastello, who died on the fourth day of the war, directing his plane at a column of Nazi tanks. The monument was erected in 1985 in Moscow, at the beginning of Gastello Street, not far from its intersection with Rusakovskaya Street. Sculptor Boris Alekseevich Machkov.
Sight 11: Воронков Михаил Михайлович
Mikhail Mikhailovich Voronkov was a captain, bomber pilot, squadron commander of the 50th High-Speed Bomber Aviation Regiment, Hero of the Soviet Union.
Sight 12: Улица Жебрунов
Anany (Nikolai) Kirillovich Zhebrunov (1898–1917) was a Russian worker, Bolshevik, participant in the October Armed Uprising of 1917 in Moscow.
Sight 13: Первой шахте метростороя
The Moscow Metro is a metro system serving the Russian capital of Moscow as well as the neighbouring cities of Krasnogorsk, Reutov, Lyubertsy and Kotelniki in Moscow Oblast. Opened in 1935 with one 11-kilometre (6.8 mi) line and 13 stations, it was the first underground railway system in the Soviet Union.
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