In the capital of our country there are many sights and memorable historical sites, but Red Square is lovingly called the heart of Moscow. It is here that parades and holidays take place, many excursions begin, and hospitable hosts will certainly bring guests of the city to the walls of the Kremlin to show the most expensive corner of Moscow.
When planning a trip to the capital, plan a walk to other squares in the capital. Statistics say that there are more than one hundred and thirty of them in Moscow, and therefore, when making a route, stock up on comfortable shoes and take a larger memory card - you can endlessly photograph Moscow squares.
Familiar addresses from childhood
Many names of the capital's squares have been heard from childhood by every resident of Russia. They are often shown in the capital's news, trains arrive on them, and the architectural sights located here are decorated with tourist guides and reference books:
- Komsomolskaya Square is the main railway gate of the capital. It is also called the Square of Three Stations, because trains come here from Yaroslavl, Kazan and Leningrad directions.
- The building that once housed the KGB is located on Lubyanskaya Square. Now the successors of the Chekists are working here, and a monument to the victims of the Gulag is erected on the square.
- Nikitsky Gate is a square famous for a once fashionable song, the heroes of which met there at seven o'clock.
- On Pushkin Square, where Alexander Sergeevich loved to walk, in 1880 a monument was erected to him. The whole world collected money for it.
- Taganskaya Square, notorious for the once located nearby prison, today attracts the attention of Muscovites and guests of the capital with the famous theater, in which Vladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky played.
The facades of the Bolshoi, Maly and Russian Academic Youth Theaters overlook Teatralnaya Square, and Universitetskaya stretches from the main building of Moscow State University towards the Moskva River.
Many squares in the Russian capital are named after war heroes and cosmonauts, international politicians and peace fighters. There are in Moscow the squares of Indira Gandhi and the cosmonaut Komarov, Jawaharlal Nehru and Gagarin, academicians Keldysh and Kurchatov, General Charles de Gaulle and the writer Romain Rolland.
Sights of Moscow on the map
