I invite you to get a panoramic view of Moscow from the observation platform located just in front of the Moscow university building. The view from Vorobyovy Gory (Sparrow Hills) is especially lovely at night.
Places I would like you to visit
“Whoever wants to understand Russia should come here and look down at Moscow…” A.Chekhov
In a day time good weather will provide you with the pictures of the Kremlin and Christ the Saviour cathedral, situated 12 km away. In fact it was Sparrow Hills where originally Christ the Saviour cathedral was planned to be build by the Emperor Alexander I.
Look at the university and try to find its 6 sisters – similar buildings of Stalin’s time. Some of them always try to vanish in the distance.
What else to search? The Sports complex is impossible to overlook. To the left will be the Novodevichy convent, to the right – headquarters of the Russian Academy of Sciences known as “Golden Brain” for its architectural appearance, a ski jump, double-decker metro bridge across the Moscow river, the river itself and a nice park for a work. It will take you not more than 15 minutes to get to the nearest metro station with the same name – Vorobyovy Gory (red line).
Related Posts:
- Exhibition at the metro station
- Moscow metro in 1969
- Moscow State University (MSU)
- Old times of Sparrow Hills
- House-museum of V.Vasnetsov
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—beautiful site and sights. !! (*-*)
Thanks a lot, Richard.
You are my first commentator here!:)