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I'm going to Moscow tomorrow.
Posted by Vorgongod on 22 December 2010 - 5:04pm.
What? wonders the Massive. Not cold enough for you or what? Y'see, Vorgona is from there (near Pushkin Square) and this year we're doing the Moscow thing.While I always love it there, I've found it hard to find places I can enjoy when my GLW gives me 'Cave time'. Can any massive members recommend any places of interest that don't contain the words Red, Square or Kremlin?
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*puts cold war hat on*
Stalin's Bunker? It wasn't open to the public when I was in Moscow, but I believe it is now. http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2007/08/10/the-bunker-for-stalin/
mmmm!
Cheers for that Fraser. I'll check it out and get you a postcard.
Victory Park
the war museum is well worth going to. Dedicated to the Great Patriotic War which the rest of us know as World War Two. As you'd expect it's a very mournful place. It might explain why every Russian looks like their dog just got run over. I got arrested there for being a foreigner at two in the afternoon.
The Cat Circus is a hoot, from memory it's in the same street. I swear I saw a cat flying a spaceship but may be mistaken.
Izmailovo Market is definitely worth going to, if you go on the weekend you'll see the bear!
As you seem to be aware it's a fantastic city to go to but there's not much to see.
The Cat Circus
These days it goes under the slightly more PC name of "The Moscow Cat Theatre". I've seen it twice (the second time I was called up onto stage, where plates were spun on my head), and it's truly bizarre. My favourite bit was a cat pushing a pram with another cat in it.
I would go to Moscow
just to see that.
Here's some actual footage
Thanks!
It did not disappoint.
Space museum
http://www.rusadventures.com/tour32.shtml
is somewhere I've always wanted to go, not least for the monument
http://www.moscow-taxi.com/museums/memorial-museum-cosmonautics.html