Moscow is the capital and most populous city of Russia, with 13.2 million residents within the city limits and 17.1 million within the urban area. Moscow has the status of a Russian federal city.
The first known reference to Moscow dates from 1147 as a meeting place of Yuri Dolgoruky and Sviatoslav Olgovich. At the time it was a minor town on the western border of Vladimir-Suzdal Principality.
Moscow Church. (246k) Moscow Church. (305k) Moscow Church. (254k) Moscow Church. (230k) Moscow Church. (311k) Moscow Church. (235k) Moscow Church. (292k) Cemetery in Moscow. (461k) The Bolshoi theater. (283k) The former KGB building. (228k) Strange looking building in Moscow. (229k) One of Stalin's Seven Sisters. (203k) Building and statue in Moscow at night. (232k) Kremlin wall. (168k) Monument for Czar Peter the Great. (160k) Statues in a park in Moscow. (326k)
Moscow around the Red Square
St. Basil's Cathedral. (262k) St. Basil's Cathedral. (770k) Closer view of St. Basil's Cathedral. (929k) Tower on the Kremlin wall in Moscow. (195k) View of some of the buildings within the Kremlin walls. (161k) View towards the Red Square with St. Basil on the right. (206k) View over the Red Square with St. Basil's Cathedral on the far left and the Spasskaya Bashnya (15th century Clock Tower) in the center, the Lenin Mausoleum to the right of the Clock Tower in front of the Kremlin Wall. (745k) Spasskaya Bashnya, built in 1491. (695k) The Nikolskaya Tower on the left and the State Historical Museum in the center. (832k) St. Basil's Cathedral on the right and the Spasskaya Bashnya (15th century Clock Tower) on the left. (740k)
Moscow Subway Stations
Novolobodskaya station. (251k) Novolobodskaya station. (248k) Prospekt Mira station. (261k) Taganskaya station. (252k) Wall mosaic closeup in Taganskaya station. (266k) Kurskaya station. (247k) Komsomolskaya station on the Red Line. (237k) Komsomolskaya station on the Circle Line. (276k) Hallway between the two Komsomolskaya stations. (253k) Paveltskaya station. (263k) Wall mosaic closeup in Paveltskaya station. (232k) Dobryninskaya station. (220k) Oktyabrskaya station. (247k) Park Kultury station. (256k) Wall relief closeup in Park Kultury station. (244k) Kievskaya station. (242k) Wall mosaic closeup in Kievskaya station. (352k) Krasnopresnenskaya station. (206k) Wall relief closeup in Krasnopresnenskaya station. (226k) Belorusskaya station. (244k) Ceiling mosaic closeup in Belorusskaya station. (275k) Ceiling mosaic closeup. (307k) Chandelier closeup. (266k)
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