Gagarinsky District

Gagarinsky District, Moscow is an administrative district of South-Western Administrative Okrug, and one of the 125 raions of Moscow, Russia. The area of the district is 5.50 square kilometers. Population - 72,072. Established in 1995.

Photo: Artem Svetlov, CC BY 2.0.

Type: Suburb with 80,600 residents
Description: district of Moscow, Russia
Also known as: “Gagarinsky” and “Gagarinsky District, Moscow”
Address: Москва

Places of Interest

Highlights include Moscow State Circus and Donskoy Monastery.

Moscow State Circus

Theater building

Photo: A.Savin, FAL.

The title Moscow State Circus is used for a variety of circuses. Most commonly, it refers to one of the two circus buildings in Moscow, the "Circus Nikulin" and the "Bolshoi Circus", or to traveling shows which may or may not be directly related to Russia.

Donskoy Monastery

Monastery

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 4.0.

Donskoy Monastery is a major monastery in Moscow, founded in 1591 in commemoration of Moscow's deliverance from the threat of an invasion by the Crimean Khan Kazy-Girey.

The State Darwin Museum

Museum

Photo: Cybersky, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The State Darwin Museum is a natural history museum in Moscow. The museum was founded in 1907 by Alexander Kohts and was the world's first museum of evolution explaining the work of Charles Darwin as a causal explanation of nature.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Central-South and Central-West.

Central-South

Photo: A.Savin, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Moscow Central-South is in Moscow and also part of Central Moscow. There are Yakimanka North & Zamoskvoreche North - historic districts, located in the southern part of the center of Moscow on the right bank of the Moskva River to the Garden Ring.

Central-West

Photo: A.Savin, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Moscow Central-West is in Moscow also part of Central Moscow. There are Arbat East, Khamovniki North, Presnensky East, Tverskoy South - historic districts, located in the West from Tverskaya Street on the left bank of the Moskva River to the Garden Ring.