. Moscow is the capital of the Russian Federation

Moscow is the capital of the Russian Federation, a city of Federal importance, the administrative center of the Central Federal district and the center of the Moscow region, which is not part of it. The largest city in Russia, the most populous city in Europe, is among the top ten cities in the world in terms of population.
The historical capital Of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, Russian Kingdom, Russian Empire (in 1728-1730), Soviet Russia and the USSR. Hero city.
Located on the Moscow river in the center of the East European plain, between the Oka and Volga, approximately at the same latitude as the cities: Tynda, Krasnoyarsk, Omsk, Chelyabinsk, Kazan, Kaliningrad, Copenhagen, Glasgow.
Moscow is an important tourist center of Russia; the Moscow Kremlin, Red square, Novodevichy convent and the Church of the ascension in Kolomenskoye are included in the UNESCO world heritage list. It is also an important transport hub. The city is served by 5 airports, 9 railway stations, 3 river ports (there is a river connection with the seas of the Atlantic and Arctic oceans). Since 1935 the Moscow metro has been operating.
List of the main attractions of Moscow:
- Kremlin;
- Red square, St. Basil's Cathedral, Gum building and Historical Museum;
- Tverskaya and Stary Arbat streets;
- Cathedral Of Christ The Saviour;
- Moscow Monasteries: Novodevichy, Donskoy, Novospassky;
- Estates: Tsaritsyno, Kuskovo, Arkhangelsk, Ostankino;
- Kolomenskoye Museum-reserve, Church of the ascension;
- Moscow museums: the Tretyakov gallery, the Museum. Pushkin, - - Historical Museum, space Museum;
- Moscow zoo, Planetarium, Big Moscow circus, Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard;
- Bolshoi theatre;
- Poklonnaya hill and victory Park, Gorky Park, exhibition center and the monument "worker and kolkhoz woman»;
- Stalin's high-rise buildings: the main building of Moscow state University, the foreign Ministry building, the house on Kotelnicheskaya embankment, the hotel "Ukraine", hotel "Leningrad»;
- The observation deck on Vorobievy the mountains, Ostankino tower;
- Moscow metro. Stations