Moscow

Facts and Figures

• Location:
  Moscow is situated on the banks of the Moskva River, which flows for just over 500 km through the East European Plain in central Russia. The width of Moscow city (not limiting MKAD) from west to east is 39.7 km (24.7 mi), and the length from north to south is 51.7 km (32.1 mi). Read more...

History

The first reference to Moscow dates from 1147 as a meeting place of Yuri Dolgorukiy and Sviatoslav Olgovich. At the time it was a small town on the west border of Vladimir-Suzdal Principality. In 1156, Knjaz Yury Dolgoruky built a wooden wall and a moat around the city. After the sacking of 1237-1238, when the Mongol Khanate of the Golden Horde burned the city to the ground and killed its inhabitants, Moscow recovered and once again became a bustling capital. Read more...

Culture

• Kremlin
• Red Square
• The Tretiakov Gallery
• Bolshoi Theatre
• Gorky Park
• VDNH
• State Historical Museum
• Vorobievi Gori (Sparrow Hills)
• St. Basil’s Cathedral
• Grand Kremlin Palace
• Novodevichy Convent Read more...

Dimplomatic Missions in Moscow

• Afghanistan
  Address: Sverchkov Pereulok, 3
  Phone: +7 (495) 928-72-78
  Fax: +7 (495) 921-95+63 Read more...