{"id":3675,"date":"2019-05-17T19:12:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T02:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/?p=3675"},"modified":"2019-11-21T22:02:52","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T05:02:52","slug":"soviet-places-and-things-to-do-in-moscow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/soviet-places-and-things-to-do-in-moscow","title":{"rendered":"Soviet Attractions in Moscow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gorge on Russian <strong>Soviet attractions in Moscow<\/strong> with various options of museums and galleries, cafes and restaurants, parks and squares.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow was the capital of former USSR and that is why nowadays it still brilliantly keeps the atmosphere of Soviet times, like no other city in Russia. First stop: #Stalin and #Lenin.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_25728\"  width=\"1070\" height=\"602\"  data-origwidth=\"1070\" data-origheight=\"602\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MlzVklsyy0k?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3682\" style=\"width: 501px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3682\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3682\" src=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Soviet-tour-Moscow.jpg\" alt=\"Soviet places in Moscow\" width=\"491\" height=\"676\" srcset=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Soviet-tour-Moscow.jpg 491w, https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Soviet-tour-Moscow-109x150.jpg 109w, https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Soviet-tour-Moscow-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3682\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soviet tour Moscow<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>See Stalin Architecture<\/h2>\n<p>The downtown is famous for having plenty of Stalin buildings impressing you with massive, huge, elaborate, expressive and remarkable constructions. Every building is different and has its distinctive feature. See the plae where Lenin lived for quite a while. Bloody historical. And that\u2019s just a start! Plenty of Stalinism and Cold war era on our <a href=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/moscow\/tours\/soviet-tour-russia\">Soviet tour in Moscow<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3676\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3676\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3676 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Moscow-Soviet-tour-Stalin-skyscraper.jpg\" alt=\"Soviet things to do in Moscow\" width=\"630\" height=\"924\" srcset=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Moscow-Soviet-tour-Stalin-skyscraper.jpg 630w, https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Moscow-Soviet-tour-Stalin-skyscraper-102x150.jpg 102w, https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Moscow-Soviet-tour-Stalin-skyscraper-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Moscow-Soviet-tour-Stalin-skyscraper-600x880.jpg 600w, https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Moscow-Soviet-tour-Stalin-skyscraper-524x768.jpg 524w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3676\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moscow State University<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Take Metro<\/h2>\n<p>Embrace the Soviet past with a Metro tour.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; 44 stations of the world heritage;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; From the very first year of its existence it was\u00a0an architectural\u00a0lab\u00a0where the best Soviet architects, sculptors and artists experimented with the new Soviet style;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Ambitious monuments, elaborate decorations and Soviet symbols and music.<\/p>\n<p>After all,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/saint-petersburg\/tours\/st-petersburg-and-moscow-tours\">Tours of Moscow and St Petersburg<\/a> are simply inamaginable without Metro.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3678\" style=\"width: 829px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3678\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3678\" src=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Soviet-Moscow-Stalin-skyscraper-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Soviet things to do in Moscow\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Soviet-Moscow-Stalin-skyscraper-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Soviet-Moscow-Stalin-skyscraper-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Soviet-Moscow-Stalin-skyscraper-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Soviet-Moscow-Stalin-skyscraper-600x750.jpg 600w, https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Soviet-Moscow-Stalin-skyscraper-615x768.jpg 615w, https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Soviet-Moscow-Stalin-skyscraper.jpg 857w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3678\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soviet Moscow &#8211; Stalin skyscraper<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Kamchatka Bar<\/h2>\n<p>An iconic place! Roll into Kamchatka where the front page of your story could be: \u201cFirst, I had a shot of vodka in Siberia. Right in the center of Moscow\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It provides you with a unique Soviet atmosphere: Russian vodka, pelmeni and bliny with caviar . What can be more Russian?<\/p>\n<h2>Visit\u00a0VDNKH<\/h2>\n<p>All Russia Exhibition Center, Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy. VDNKh (or VVC) to Russia is what Central park is to NYC or Golden Gate Park is to San Francisco. What this place lacks in nature and greenspace, it makes up for in immense historical and cultural heritage.<\/p>\n<p>But, honestly, it has no analogues in the world. The complex includes more than 500 permanent structures. 49 of them are the objects of cultural heritage and pride. Nowadays it is one of the largest exhibition areas in Russia comprising \u00a0marvelous pieces of Soviet art like a famous Soviet landmark &#8211; \u201cWorker and Kolkhoz Woman\u201d monument, a great number of monumental exhibition halls, Friendship of Nations fountain and more.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the gleaming shades of gold as the first rays of sunlight hit the fountain. Slip into the golden Soviet era to the music of Russian\u00a0past.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3681\" style=\"width: 1019px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3681\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3681\" src=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Soviet-Russia.jpg\" alt=\"Soviet places in Moscow\" width=\"1009\" height=\"744\" srcset=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Soviet-Russia.jpg 1009w, https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Soviet-Russia-150x111.jpg 150w, https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Soviet-Russia-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Soviet-Russia-600x442.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1009px) 100vw, 1009px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3681\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soviet Russia<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Hold your Breath at Yuri Gagarin Monument<\/h2>\n<p>Yuri Gagarin is a Russian national hero. At a time when the space race was a bellwether of national prestige in the Cold War, 27-year-old Gagarin became the first person in space on 12 April 1961. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev compared him to Christopher Columbus.<\/p>\n<h2>Walk through Muzeon Park of Arts<\/h2>\n<p>Are you more art, yoga, nature repeat? Hit one of the finest parks of Moscow \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/moscow-off-the-beaten-path-muzeon-park\">Muzeon<\/a>. The park through the eyes of locals is a creative space that provokes ideas and inspires. Muzeon can be described in 5 words: nature, art, music, chill out and original exhibitions of Soviet leaders and attributes. <a href=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/moscow-gorky-park\">Gorky Park<\/a> is also a must-see.<\/p>\n<h2>Read Books<\/h2>\n<p>In the <strong>RUSSIAN STATE LIBRARY<\/strong> representing Soviet architecture and being the largest in the country and the fourth largest in the world. It holds a unique collection of national and international documents on 367 different languages, 150 000 maps, 350 000 notes and records, rare books, dissertations and much more.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3680\" style=\"width: 794px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3680\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3680\" src=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Soviet-Moscow-Red-Square.jpg\" alt=\"Soviet places in Moscow\" width=\"784\" height=\"588\" srcset=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Soviet-Moscow-Red-Square.jpg 784w, https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Soviet-Moscow-Red-Square-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Soviet-Moscow-Red-Square-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Soviet-Moscow-Red-Square-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 784px) 100vw, 784px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3680\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soviet Moscow &#8211; Red Square<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Observe the City<\/h2>\n<p>From\u00a0<strong>SPARROW HILLS<\/strong> OBSERVATION DECK (aka the highest point of Moscow) a breathtaking view of whole Moscow is in front of you, State Moscow University is behind and admirable park all around. This moment will change your life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Enjoy GUM<\/h2>\n<p>Trading House. Located right in the middle of somewhere called Red Square, this place is impossible to miss. Welcome to the whatever-you-want land: authentic Russian food, Soviet style caf\u00e9 and stylish modern coffee bars, Russian Matryoshka dolls, classy Russian grocery store, vintage clothing boutiques, historical fountain, glamourous brands, beautiful Russian souvenirs \u2026 three rows and three stories of all types of awesome! Consider staying here forever when you try their very special old-fashioned delicious ice-cream.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<div id=\"attachment_3677\" style=\"width: 522px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3677\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3677\" src=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Soviet-Moscow-GUM.jpg\" alt=\"Soviet Moscow - GUM\" width=\"512\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Soviet-Moscow-GUM.jpg 512w, https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Soviet-Moscow-GUM-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Soviet-Moscow-GUM-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3677\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soviet Moscow &#8211; GUM<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3679\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3679\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3679\" src=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Soviet-Moscow-Gum-store-1024x661.jpg\" alt=\"Soviet places in Moscow\" width=\"1024\" height=\"661\" srcset=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Soviet-Moscow-Gum-store-1024x661.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Soviet-Moscow-Gum-store-150x97.jpg 150w, https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Soviet-Moscow-Gum-store-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Soviet-Moscow-Gum-store-600x388.jpg 600w, https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Soviet-Moscow-Gum-store.jpg 1062w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3679\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soviet Moscow &#8211; Gum store<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gorge on Russian Soviet attractions in Moscow with various options of museums and galleries, cafes and restaurants, parks and squares. 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