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Ostankino Tower, one of the main tourist attractions in Moscow This is a list of major tourist attractions in the Russian city of Moscow . This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
The city of Zelenograd (a part of the federal city of Moscow) and the municipal cities/towns of the federal city of St. Petersburg are also excluded, as they are not enumerated in the 2021 census as stand-alone localities. Note that the sixteen largest cities have a total population of 35,509,177, or roughly 24.1% of the country's total population.
This is a list of cities and towns in Russia. According to the data of 2010 Russian Census , there are 1,117 cities and towns in Russia. After the Census, Innopolis , a town in the Republic of Tatarstan , was established in 2012 and granted town status in 2015.
Saint Basil's Cathedral, which delimits the square on its southern side, is undoubtedly the square's most famous building, and one of Russia's cultural icons. Once, the church was the main place of worship in Moscow, but today the cathedral mainly functions as a museum that is part of the complex of the State Historical Museum in the opposite.
Citadel, Ancient City and Fortress Buildings of Derbent: Dagestan: 2003 1070; iii, iv (cultural) Derbent, the oldest city in Russia, is located on a narrow plain between the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus mountains. Due to its strategic position between Europe and Asia, defensive structures were built already in the first millennium BCE to ...
Russian Orthodox believers celebrated Trinity Sunday with Russia's most famous icon transferred from a museum to Moscow's main cathedral despite the keepers' vociferous protests. The Trinity icon ...
Lists of tourist attractions in Moscow (2 P) C. Cemeteries in Moscow (1 C, 16 P) Churches in Moscow (2 C, 15 P) Cultural heritage monuments in Moscow (2 C, 26 P) E.
Moscow [a] is the capital and largest city of Russia.The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at over 13 million residents within the city limits, [6] over 19.1 million residents in the urban area, [7] and over 21.5 million residents in its metropolitan area. [14]