Akademika Tamma Square

Akademika Tamma Square is a square in Gagarinsky District, South-Western Administrative Okrug, Moscow, Moscow Oblast. Akademika Tamma Square is situated nearby to the government office Civil Status Registration Office of Gagarinskiy District, as well as near the hospital Родильный дом №25.

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Type: Square
Description: street in Moscow, Russia
Also known as: “площадь Академика Тамма”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Lebedev Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computer Engineering and Lebedev Physical Institute.

Lebedev Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computer Engineering

Research institute

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Lebedev Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computer Engineering is a Russian research institution. It used to be a Soviet Academy of Sciences organization in Soviet times. Lebedev Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computer Engineering is situated 210 metres south of Akademika Tamma Square.

Lebedev Physical Institute

Research institute

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The Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences is a Russian research institute in Moscow, specializing in physics. The institute was established in its present shape in 1934 by academician Sergey Vavilov. Lebedev Physical Institute is situated 330 metres south of Akademika Tamma Square.

The State Darwin Museum

Museum

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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. The State Darwin Museum is situated 1¼ km south of Akademika Tamma Square.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Akademichesky District and Sparrow Hills.

Akademichesky District

Suburb

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Akademichesky District is an administrative district of South-Western Administrative Okrug, and one of the 125 raions of Moscow, Russia. The area of the district is 5.57 square kilometers.

Sparrow Hills

Neighborhood

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Sparrow Hills, formerly known as Lenin Hills, is a hill on the right bank of the Moskva River and one of the highest points in Moscow, reaching a height of 80 m above the river level.