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Moscow

Since its founding in 1147, Moscow has been at the crossroads of history as the capital of empires and a frequent target for invaders. As the capital of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and, today, the Federation, it has played a central role in the development of the largest country in the world.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Outskirts and Domodedovo International Airport.

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The Moscow include areas from Moscow's 3rd Ring to Moscow Ring Road.

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Moscow Domodedovo Airport, formally Domodedovo Mikhail Lomonosov International Airport, is an serving Moscow, the capital of .

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is one of the three main airports of Moscow and the main hub of Russian flag carrier Aeroflot.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Central Moscow and Central-West.

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Central Administrative Okrug, or Tsentralny Administrativny Okrug, is one of the twelve administrative okrugs of Moscow, . Population: 772,258 ; 741,967 ; 701,353 .

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Moscow 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.

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Moscow is the part of that's north of the Kremlin, east of Tverskaya Street, north of Pokrova Street, the area within the Boulevard Ring, Krasnoselsky south, Meshchansky south & Tverskoy South raions…

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Moscow 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.

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Moscow is in Moscow also part of Central Moscow.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Bolshoi Theatre and Russian State Library.

Theater building
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The is a historic opera house in Moscow, , originally designed by architect Joseph Bové. Before the October Revolution it was a part of the Imperial Theatres of the Russian Empire along with Maly Theatre in Moscow and a few theatres in Saint Petersburg.

Library
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The is one of the three national libraries of , located in Moscow. It is the largest library in the country, second largest in Europe and one of the largest in the world.

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The , also known as the Tsarsky Kolokol, Tsar Kolokol III, or Royal Bell, is a 6.14-metre-tall, 6.6-metre-diameter bell on display on the grounds of the Moscow Kremlin.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tagansky District and Presnensky District.

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is a district of of the federal city of Moscow, , located between the Moskva and Yauza Rivers near the mouth of the latter. Population: 116,744 ; 109,993 .

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, commonly called Presnya, is a district of of the federal city of Moscow, Russia. Population: 123,284 ; 116,979 .

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is a district of of the federal city of Moscow, Russia. Population: 108,204 ; 100,899 . The district extends northeast from Kitai-gorod, within the radial boundaries of Vorontsovo Pole Street and Yauza River in the south and Myasnitskaya Street and Novaya Basmannaya Street in the north.

Moscow

Latitude
55.7505° or 55° 45′ 2″ north
Longitude
37.6175° or 37° 37′ 3″ east
Population
13,300,000
Elevation
155 metres (509 feet)
Inception
1147
IATA airport code
MOW
United Nations Location Code
RU MOW
Open location code
9G7VQJ28+6X
Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
524901
Wiki­data ID
Q649
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Moscow” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Москва”
  • Achinese: “Moskow”
  • Achinese: “Moskôw”
  • Adyghe: “Москва”
  • Afrikaans: “Moskou”
  • Albanian: “Moska”
  • Amharic: “ሞስኮ”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Μόσχα”
  • Angika: “मॉस्को”
  • Arabic: “موسكو”
  • Aragonese: “Moscú”
  • Armenian: “Մոսկվա”
  • Arpitan: “Moscou”
  • Assamese: “মস্কো”
  • Asturian: “Moscú”
  • Avaric: “Москва”
  • Awadhi: “मस्को”
  • Aymara: “Mosku”
  • Azerbaijani: “Moskva” (historical)
  • Balinese: “Moskow”
  • Bambara: “Moscow”
  • Bashkir: “Мәскәү”
  • Basque: “Mosku”
  • Bavarian: “Moskau”
  • Belarusian: “Масква”
  • Bengali: “মস্কো”
  • Betawi: “Mosko”
  • Bhojpuri: “मास्को”
  • Bislama: “Moskow”
  • Bosnian: “Moskva”
  • Breton: “Moskov”
  • Bulgarian: “Москва”
  • Burmese: “မော်စကိုမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Moscou”
  • Cebuano: “Moscow”
  • Central Bikol: “Mosku”
  • Central Kanuri: “Moscow”
  • Central Kurdish: “مۆسکڤا”
  • Central Kurdish: “مۆسکۆ”
  • Chamorro: “Moscow”
  • Chavacano: “Moscow”
  • Chechen: “Москох”
  • Chinese: “Bo̍k-su-kho”
  • Chinese: “莫斯科”
  • Church Slavic: “Москва́”
  • Church Slavic: “Москъва”
  • Church Slavic: “Москъвь”
  • Church Slavic: “Москꙑ”
  • Chuvash: “Мускав”
  • Cornish: “Moskva”
  • Corsican: “Cità di Mosca”
  • Corsican: “Mosca”
  • Corsican: “Moscù”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Moskova”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Moskva”
  • Croatian: “Moskva”
  • Czech: “Moskva”
  • Dagbani: “Moscow”
  • Danish: “Moskva”
  • Dhivehi: “މޮސްކޯ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Moskowa”
  • Dinka: “Moccow”
  • Dotyali: “मस्को”
  • Dutch: “Moskou”
  • Dzongkha: “མོསི་ཀོ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Моско”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “موسكو”
  • Erzya: “Москов ош”
  • Esperanto: “Moskvo”
  • Estonian: “Moskva”
  • Extremaduran: “Moscú”
  • Fanti: “Moscow”
  • Faroese: “Moskva”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Moscow”
  • Fijian: “Moscow”
  • Fijian: “Mosiko”
  • Finnish: “Moskova”
  • French: “Moscou”
  • Friulian: “Mosche”
  • Fulah: “Moscow”
  • Gagauz: “Moskva”
  • Galician: “Moscova”
  • Gan Chinese: “莫斯科”
  • Ganda: “Moosko”
  • Georgian: “მოსკოვი”
  • German: “Moskau”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Moscow”
  • Gilaki: “مؤسکؤ”
  • Gothic: “𐌼𐍉𐍃𐌺𐍅𐌰/Moskwa”
  • Gothic: “𐌼𐍉𐍃𐌺𐍅𐌰”
  • Greek: “Μόσχα”
  • Guarani: “Moscow”
  • Guarani: “Moscú”
  • Guarani: “Moskva”
  • Guarani: “Mosuku”
  • Guarani: “Москва”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Moskou”
  • Gujarati: “મોસ્કો”
  • Gun: “Moscow”
  • Haitian: “Moskou”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Mo̍k-sṳ̂-khô”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Moskva”
  • Hausa: “Moscow”
  • Hawaiian: “Mokekao”
  • Hebrew: “מוסקבה”
  • Hebrew: “מוסקווה”
  • Hindi: “मास्को”
  • Hungarian: “Moszkva”
  • Iban: “Moscow”
  • Icelandic: “Moskva”
  • Ido: “Moskva”
  • Iloko: “Moscow”
  • Inari Sami: “Moskova”
  • Indonesian: “Moskow”
  • Indonesian: “Moskva”
  • Indonesian: “Moskwa”
  • Ingush: “Москва”
  • Ingush: “Москоа”
  • Interlingua: “Moscova”
  • Interlingue: “Moscva”
  • Interlingue: “Moskwa”
  • Inuktitut: “ᒨᔅᑯ”
  • Irish: “Moscó”
  • Italian: “Mosca”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Masko”
  • Japanese: “モスクワ”
  • Japanese: “モスクワ市”
  • Japanese: “莫斯科”
  • Javanese: “Moskou”
  • Javanese: “Moskwa”
  • Kabardian: “Мэзкуу”
  • Kabiyè: “Mɔsɩkʊʊ”
  • Kabuverdianu: “Muskovu”
  • Kabyle: “Mosku”
  • Kabyle: “Musku”
  • Kalaallisut: “Moskva”
  • Kalmyk: “Москва балһсн”
  • Kannada: “ಮಾಸ್ಕೋ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Moskva qalası”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Moskva”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Москва қаласы”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Маскау”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Москва”
  • Kashmiri: “ماسکو”
  • Kashmiri: “مَسكؤآ”
  • Kashubian: “Mòskwa”
  • Kazakh: “Мәскеу қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Мәскеу”
  • Khmer: “ម៉ូស្គូ”
  • Kikuyu: “Moscow”
  • Kirghiz: “Москва”
  • Kölsch: “Moskau”
  • Kölsch: “Moßkou”
  • Komering: “Moskow”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Мӧсква”
  • Komi: “Мӧскуа”
  • Kongo: “Moskva”
  • Korean: “모스크바”
  • Kotava: “Moskva”
  • Kurdish: “Mosko”
  • Kurdish: “Moskow”
  • Ladin: “Mosca”
  • Ladin: “Moscau”
  • Ladin: “Moscow”
  • Ladin: “Moskva”
  • Ladin: “Moskwa”
  • Ladino: “Mosku”
  • Lak: “Москав”
  • Lao: “ມອສໂກ”
  • Lao: “ມອດໂກ”
  • Latgalian: “Moskova”
  • Latin: “Moscua”
  • Latvian: “Maskava”
  • Lezghian: “Москва”
  • Ligurian: “Mosca”
  • Limburgan: “Moskou”
  • Lingala: “Moskú”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Moscva”
  • Literary Chinese: “莫斯科”
  • Lithuanian: “Maskva”
  • Livvi: “Moskovu”
  • Lojban: “moskovas”
  • Lojban: “Moskuas”
  • Lombard: “Musca”
  • Low German: “Moskau”
  • Low German: “Moskou”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Moskwa”
  • Luxembourgish: “Moskau”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Moscova”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Moscow”
  • Macedonian: “Москва”
  • Magahi: “मास्को”
  • Maithili: “मस्को”
  • Malagasy: “Môsikao”
  • Malagasy: “Moskva”
  • Malay: “Moscow”
  • Malay: “موسکو”
  • Malayalam: “മോസ്കോ”
  • Maltese: “Moska”
  • Manx: “Moscow”
  • Maori: “Mohikau”
  • Marathi: “मॉस्को”
  • Mazanderani: “موسکو”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Moskva”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bo̍k-su-kho”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Moscow”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Moskva”
  • Minangkabau: “Moskow”
  • Mingrelian: “მოსკოვი”
  • Mirandese: “Moscobo”
  • Moksha: “Моску”
  • Mongolian: “Москва”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “موسكو”
  • Mossi: “Moscow”
  • Narom: “Moscou”
  • Nauru: “Moscow”
  • Navajo: “Halzhin Deezlíní”
  • Neapolitan: “Mosca”
  • Nepali: “मस्को”
  • Newari: “मस्को”
  • Northern Frisian: “Moskau”
  • Northern Sami: “Moskva”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Moskva”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Moskva”
  • Norwegian: “Moskva”
  • Novial: “Moskva”
  • Nyanja: “Moscow”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Moscòu”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܡܘܣܩܒܐ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Moscow”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Moscoƿ”
  • Oriya: “ମସ୍କୋ”
  • Oromo: “Mooskoo”
  • Ossetian: “Мæскуы”
  • Pampanga: “Moscow”
  • Pampanga: “Mosku”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਾਸਕੋ”
  • Papiamento: “Mosku”
  • Pedi: “Moscow”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Moscow”
  • Persian: “مسکو”
  • Picard: “Moscou”
  • Piemontese: “Mosca”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Moscow”
  • Polish: “Moskwa”
  • Pontic: “Μόσχα”
  • Portuguese: “Moscou”
  • Portuguese: “Moscovo”
  • Pushto: “مسکو”
  • Quechua: “Moskwa”
  • Quechua: “Muskuw”
  • Romanian: “Moscova”
  • Romanian: “orașul Moscova”
  • Romanian: “Москова”
  • Romansh: “Moscau”
  • Rundi: “Moscou”
  • Russia Buriat: “Москва”
  • Russian: “Белокаменная”
  • Russian: “Златоглавая”
  • Russian: “Москва (город)”
  • Russian: “Москва (Россия)”
  • Russian: “Москва, Россия”
  • Russian: “Москва”
  • Russian: “МСК”
  • Russian: “Нерезиновая”
  • Russian: “Первопрестольная”
  • Russian: “Порт пяти морей”
  • Russian: “Третий Рим”
  • Rusyn: “Москва”
  • Samoan: “Moscow”
  • Samogitian: “Maskva”
  • Sango: “Moscow”
  • Sanskrit: “मास्कोनगरम्”
  • Santali: “ᱢᱚᱥᱠᱚ”
  • Sardinian: “Mosca”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Moskau”
  • Scots: “Moscow”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Moscobha”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Mosgo”
  • Serbian: “Moskva”
  • Serbian: “Москва”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Moskva”
  • Shona: “Moscow”
  • Sicilian: “Mosca”
  • Sicilian: “Musca”
  • Silesian: “Moskwa”
  • Sindhi: “ماسڪو”
  • Sinhala: “මොස්කව්”
  • Slovak: “Moskva”
  • Slovenian: “Moskva”
  • Somali: “Moskow”
  • South Azerbaijani: “موسکو”
  • Southern Altai: “Москва”
  • Southern Sotho: “Moscow”
  • Spanish: “ciudad de Moscú”
  • Spanish: “Moscú”
  • Sundanese: “Moskow”
  • Sundanese: “Moskwa”
  • Swahili: “Moscow”
  • Swati: “Moscow”
  • Swedish: “Moskva”
  • Swiss German: “Moskau”
  • Tachelhit: “Muṣku”
  • Tagalog: “Moscow”
  • Tagalog: “Mosku”
  • Tahitian: “Moscou”
  • Tajik: “Маскав”
  • Talysh: “Məskova”
  • Tamil: “மாஸ்கோ”
  • Tatar: “Mäskäw”
  • Tatar: “Мәскәү”
  • Telugu: “మాస్కో”
  • Tetum: “Moskovu”
  • Thai: “มอสโก”
  • Tibetan: “མོ་སི་ཁོ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ሞስኮ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Mosko”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Mosekou”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Moskau”
  • Tumbuka: “Moscow”
  • Turkish: “Moskof”
  • Turkish: “Moskova”
  • Turkmen: “Maskwa”
  • Turkmen: “Moskowa”
  • Turkmen: “Moskwa”
  • Tuvinian: “Москва”
  • Twi: “Moskow”
  • Twi: “Moskva”
  • Tyap: “Ma̱si̱kwo”
  • Tyap: “Ma̱si̱kwova”
  • Tyap: “Moskva”
  • Udmurt: “Муско”
  • Uighur: “Moskwa”
  • Uighur: “موسكۋا”
  • Ukrainian: “Москва (місто)”
  • Ukrainian: “Москва (Росія)”
  • Ukrainian: “Москва, Росія”
  • Ukrainian: “Москва, РФ”
  • Ukrainian: “Москва”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Moskwa”
  • Urdu: “ماسکو شہر”
  • Urdu: “ماسکو، روس”
  • Urdu: “ماسکو، روسی فیڈریشن”
  • Urdu: “ماسکو، سوویت یونین”
  • Urdu: “ماسکو”
  • Urdu: “ماسکوا”
  • Uzbek: “Moskva”
  • Venetian: “Mosca”
  • Venetian: “Moska”
  • Veps: “Moskv”
  • Vietnamese: “Mạc Tư Khoa”
  • Vietnamese: “Mat-xcơ-va”
  • Vietnamese: “Mát-xcơ-va”
  • Vietnamese: “Matxcơva”
  • Vietnamese: “Moscow”
  • Vietnamese: “Moskva”
  • Vlaams: “Moskou”
  • Vlax Romani: “Moscova”
  • Volapük: “Moskva”
  • Võro: “Moskva”
  • Walloon: “Moscou”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Moscow”
  • Welsh: “Moscfa”
  • Welsh: “Mosgo”
  • Western Armenian: “Մոսկուա”
  • Western Frisian: “Moskou”
  • Western Mari: “Москва”
  • Western Panjabi: “ماسکو”
  • Wolof: “Mosku”
  • Wu Chinese: “莫斯科”
  • Xhosa: “Moscou”
  • Yakut: “Москва”
  • Yakut: “Москуба”
  • Yiddish: “מאסקווע”
  • Yiddish: “מאָסקװע”
  • Yoruba: “Mọsko”
  • Yoruba: “Mọ́skò”
  • Yue Chinese: “Moscow”
  • Yue Chinese: “Moskva”
  • Yue Chinese: “Moskvá”
  • Yue Chinese: “Москва”
  • Yue Chinese: “莫斯科”
  • Zeeuws: “Moskou”
  • Zhuang: “Moscow”
  • Zulu: “IMoskwa”
  • “ma Makuwa”
  • “Maskva”
  • “Måssca”
  • “Mosca”
  • “Mosche”
  • “Moscohuia”
  • “Moscova”
  • “Moskva”
  • “Москова”
  • “मास्को”

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