Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #16 in Moscow, Russia

The monument to Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin, the work of Alexander Mikhailovich Opekushin, was erected in Moscow on June 6 (18), 1880. The monument is made of bronze, originally it was installed at the beginning of Tverskoy Boulevard on Strastnaya Square. In 1950, the monument was moved to the opposite side of the square.

Wikipedia: Памятник А. С. Пушкину (Москва, Пушкинская площадь) (RU)

The Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines is a private historical interactive museum that keeps a collection of arcade machines that were produced in the USSR from the mid-1970s. April 13, 2007 is considered to be the foundation day of the museum. Visitors of the museum are given 15-kopeck coins at the entrance to get the arcade machines started. The ticket price also includes an excursion.

Wikipedia: Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines (EN), Website

The Golitsyn Chambers in Krivokoleniy Lane is a two-storey building of the XVII century, located in Moscow at: Central Administrative District, Krivokoleniy Lane, house 10, building 1. It is a federal architectural monument.

Wikipedia: Палаты Голицыных в Кривоколенном переулке (RU)

"Lights of Moscow" is a Moscow museum dedicated to the history of lighting fixtures. The museum was opened in 1980 in Armyansky Lane in the building of the Protopopov (Miloslavsky) chambers of the XVII century.

Wikipedia: Огни Москвы (RU), Website

Menshikov Tower, also known as the Church of Archangel Gabriel, is a Baroque Russian Orthodox Church in Basmanny District of Moscow, within the Boulevard Ring. The church was initially built in 1707 to order of Alexander Menshikov by Ivan Zarudny assisted by Domenico Trezzini, a team of Italian-Swiss craftsmen from Ticino and Fribourg cantons and Russian stonemasons from Kostroma and Yaroslavl. The earliest extant Petrine Baroque building in Moscow, Menshikov Tower was substantially altered in the 1770s. The church traditionally functioned in summer only; in winter the congregation assembled in nearby Church of Theodor Stratelates, built in 1782–1806. Church of Saint Theodore also provides the bells for ritual ringing: despite its height, Menshikov Tower does not have bells.

Wikipedia: Menshikov Tower (EN)

Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and the first Bolshevik Soviet People's Commissar (Narkompros) responsible for the Ministry of Education as well as an active playwright, critic, essayist, and journalist throughout his career.

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Ernst Teodorovich Krenkel was a Soviet Arctic explorer, radio operator, and doctor of geographical sciences (1938). He is best known as one of the four members of the North Pole-1 expedition, for which he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union in 1938. Amateur radio callsigns: EU2EQ, U3AA, UA3AA, RAEM.

Wikipedia: Ernst Krenkel (EN)

The Oleg Tabakov Moscow Theater is a theater complex founded in 1987 by People's Artist of the USSR Oleg Tabakov. The theater includes two stages on Malaya Sukharevskaya Square and Chaplygin Street, an art and production plant and a theater school. The theater officially opened in 1987.

Wikipedia: Московский театр-студия под руководством Олега Табакова (RU), Website

Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, popularly known as Maxim Gorky, was a Russian and Soviet writer and socialist political thinker and proponent. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Before his success as an author, he travelled widely across the Russian Empire changing jobs frequently, experiences which would later influence his writing.

Wikipedia: Maxim Gorky (EN)

Victor Karlovich Monukov is an actor, theatre director, theatre teacher, Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1969).

Wikipedia: Монюков, Виктор Карлович (RU)

The Apollinary Vasnetsov Memorial Museum is a museum in memory of the artist Apollinary Vasnetsov in Moscow, Russia. It is located in the house on Furmanny Lane, where the painter lived from 1903 to 1933. The first memorial rooms were opened to visitors in 1965, and in 1986 the museum became part of the Tretyakov Gallery.

Wikipedia: Мемориальный музей-квартира А. М. Васнецова (RU), Website

The Volkov-Yusupov Palaces is a landmark building in the Basmanny District of Moscow, one of the oldest civilian buildings in the city. They are located at Bolshoy Kharitonyevsky Lane, 21, building 4. They are a cultural heritage site of federal significance.

Wikipedia: Палаты Волковых — Юсуповых (RU)

Maxim Maximovich Litvinov was a Russian revolutionary and prominent Soviet statesman and diplomat who served as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs from 1930 to 1939.

Wikipedia: Maxim Litvinov (EN)

Boris Pavlovich Beshchev was a Soviet statesman, Minister of Railways of the USSR (1948-1977), Hero of Socialist Labor (1959), member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1952, deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of 4-8 convocations.

Wikipedia: Бещев, Борис Павлович (RU)

Alexey Nikolayevich Dushkin was a Soviet architect, best known for his 1930s designs of the Kropotkinskaya and Mayakovskaya stations of the Moscow Metro. He worked primarily for subway and railroads and is also noted for his Red Gate Building, one of the Seven Sisters.

Wikipedia: Alexey Dushkin (EN)

The Stakheev House is a city estate in Moscow at 14 Novaya Basmannaya Street, Bldg. 1. An object of cultural heritage of the peoples of Russia of federal significance. Currently, the estate houses the Central House of Children of Railway Workers.

Wikipedia: Дом Стахеева (RU), Website

Alexander Mikhailovich Lukyanov was a Soviet fighter pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union. He rammed twice and returned to the ranks, shot down 9 enemy aircraft, and was killed in an air battle.

Wikipedia: Лукьянов, Александр Михайлович (RU)

The Epiphany Cathedral at Yelokhovo, Moscow, is the vicarial church of the Moscow Patriarchs. The surviving building was designed and built by Yevgraph Tyurin in 1837–1845.

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The Moscow Children's Variety Theater is a children's theater in the Basmanny district of Moscow. It was founded in 1989.

Wikipedia: Московский детский театр эстрады (RU), Website

The Moscow Puppet Theater is the first of the currently operating state puppet theaters in Moscow and one of the oldest in Russia. It was founded in 1929 in the Gosizdat system by director Viktor Schwemberger. The theater uses a variety of puppet techniques: from antique marionettes to large-sized frame puppets, and conducts musical performances with the participation of a live orchestra. His repertoire also includes "performances with closed eyes", the events of which unfold in complete darkness, and all the action is based on sounds, smells, tactile sensations, which makes the performance accessible to blind people. The theater is the base site of the Moscow International Puppet Theater Festival.

Wikipedia: Московский театр кукол (RU), Website