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Where to go GUM – Russia’s largest department store At the end of the 19th century, Tsar Nicholas II ordered a representative building to be built on Red Square to house a department store for merchants’ wares. Right from its opening in 1893 onwards, it was regarded as an architectural marvel that captured the spirit of Russia’s rise. ...more Where to go Gorbushka – Moscow’s largest electronics market Take ten usual electronics megastores and you have an idea of the size of the Gorbushka. You can find everything here, absolutely everything that somehow needs electricity to work. CDs, DVDs and software are also for sale. ...more Where to go Gorbushka – Moscow’s largest electronics market Take ten usual electronics megastores and you have an idea of the size of the Gorbushka. You can find everything here, absolutely everything that somehow needs electricity to work. CDs, DVDs and software are also for sale. ...more Where to go Arbat - The Soviet Union's first pedestrian precinct "If you don't know the Arbat, you don't know Moscow" goes the saying. The (Old) Arbat in Moscow, with its shops, cafés and souvenir stands, is Russia's most famous pedestrian zone. The lively street to the west of the Kremlin has something for everyone. ...more Where to go Arbat - The Soviet Union's first pedestrian precinct "If you don't know the Arbat, you don't know Moscow" goes the saying. The (Old) Arbat in Moscow, with its shops, cafés and souvenir stands, is Russia's most famous pedestrian zone. The lively street to the west of the Kremlin has something for everyone. ...more Where to go Luszhniki – Olympic Moscow The huge Luzhniki (former Lenin) stadium is today the home of Spartak Moscow, Russia’s soccer champions for a record number of times. It stands amid a number of sports locations strung along a bend in the Moskva. Built in 1955, the whole ensemble was renovated for the XXII. Olympic Games in 1980. ...more Where to go Victory Park – Skaters in front of a blood-red fountain The Victory Park (Park Pobedy) in the West of the city is the most important official memorial to those who fell in the ‘Great Patriotic War’. In the centre of the slightly kitschy ensemble stands a huge obelisk with the Goddess of Victory. ...more Where to go Sparrow Hills: Newly-weds’ photo opportunity and Temple of Learning Of all Stalin’s pompous palaces, Moscow’s Lomonossov University (MGU) in the southwest of the capital is the most massive. The university can even be seen from Sheremtevo airport. The 250m-high main corpus today houses some faculties, the university administration and accommodation for students and faculty. ...more Where to go VDNKh – Socialist Kitsch and Imported Junk The "Exhibition of the Economic Achievements of the USSR (VDNKh) was once a premium socialist prestige project. Here visitors were supposed to witness the productive power of the Soviet plan economy. ...more

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