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The oldest evidence of humans on the territory of Moscow dates from the Neolithic Schukinskaya site on the Moscow River.Within the modern bounds of the city other late evidence was discovered to be a burial ground of the Fatyanovskaya culture, as well as the site of an Iron Age settlement of the Dyakovo culture, on the territory of the Kremlin, Sparrow Hills, Setun River and Kuntsevskiy forest ...
History of Moscow by period (4 C) B. Burials at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis (118 P) C. Crime in Moscow (4 C, 4 P) E. Ethnic groups in Moscow (1 C, 1 P) Events in ...
"Moscow Nights", [a] originally titled "Leningrad Nights", [b] is a Soviet Russian patriotic song written by Mikhail Matusovsky and composed by Vasily Solovyov-Sedoy. It was later covered as " Midnight in Moscow " by Kenny Ball .
Moscow Oblast and Moscow Circus School established. Kauchuk Factory Club built. 1930 – Moscow State Institute for History and Archives and Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys established. 1934 – Museum of Architecture founded. 1935 15 May: Moscow Metro begins operating. Hotel Moskva in business. 1936 Moscow Trials begin in the House of the ...
The journalists were frustrated at being muzzled, but were powerless in the face of a system designed to control every word cabled from Moscow. At night, however, when the Metropol was a dark ...
Moscow was the host city of the 1980 Summer Olympics, with the yachting events being held at Tallinn, in present-day Estonia. Large sports facilities and the main international airport, Sheremetyevo Terminal 2, were built in preparation for the 1980 Summer Olympics. Moscow had made a bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics. However, when final voting ...
Krutitsy by night. Krutitsy Metochion (Russian: Крути́цкое подворье), full name: Krutitsy Patriarchal Metochion (Russian: Крутицкое Патриаршее подворье) is an operating ecclesiastical estate of Russian Orthodox Church, located in Tagansky District of Moscow, Russia, 3 kilometers south-east from the Kremlin.
Before leaving Moscow, Count Rostopchin supposedly gave orders to the head of police (and released convicts) to have the Kremlin and major public buildings (including churches and monasteries) set on fire. During the following days, the fires spread. According to Germaine de Staël, who left the city a few weeks before Napoleon arrived, and afterward corresponded with Kutuzov, it was ...