Apr
30
Fountains run
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Today, on a command of mayor of Moscow have earned all city fountains. The opening ceremony was held in the museum season-reserve “Tsaritsino”, where a new light and music fountain.
It certainly not a fountain before casino “Bellagio” in Las Vegas,
but for Moscow very much even is good.
Photo: fountain on Chistoprudniy Boulevard.
Photo: fountain at Pushkin Square.
Photo: fountain on Tsvetnoy Boulevard
Apr
28
Season river tram opened
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Photo: Krasnoholmskaya embankment, pier “Novospassky Bridge”.
Prices this year climbed to 250 rubles. up to 300 rubles. for the ticket. (300 rubles = $12,7)
The main route: pier “Kievsky railway station” - pier “Novospassky Bridge”.
Opening hours from 11.00 to 21.00
Journey time - 1.5 hours.
On the itinerary is working 10 ships. A interval of 20 minutes.
Apr
24
Exposure
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Photo: Hotel “Moscow”. The new building.
View from the same place in autumn 2007.
Very silly, that have not left different forms of window apertures and balconies on the right and left wings.
According to a legend, architect Schusev has brought to Stalin for the signature 2 projects divided by vertically axial line. Stalin has signed. Have constructed. (you will not go in fact to speak, that you, comrade Stalin have not understood).
Apr
23
1. Under the sign prohibiting stop.
Photo: Sq. Kiev railway station. Near Trade Center “European”.
Yes, it’s a road police on other side )
2. On zebra crossing.
Photo: сrossroads Zvonarskiy lane and Neglinnaya str.
3. At a stop of public transport.
Photo: stop of public transport on New Arbat str.
4. On traffic island.
(Triangles in junctions of roads).
Photo: Butyrskaya str.
5. At lawns.
Or that earlier had lawn
Photo: Square - parking in front of the Presidium of Russian Academy of Sciences.
P.S.
If dear reader has solved, that all capital drivers dishonourable and malicious infringers, I hasten to assure - to find in the afternoon a place for parking in a to Moscow (well, we shall tell in radius of 200 meters from the address necessary to you) very difficultly. And if to observe Rules of traffic it is practically impossible))
Apr
22
Happy birthday, Lenin!
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Today 138 years from the date of a birth of the leader of world proletariat V. I.Ulyanov (Lenin).
Photo: Lenin’s mausoleum. 1930. Arh. Shusev. Object № 545 UNESCO World Heritage.
The Red square in such case is closed. Likely, to not admit a national communistic party. Therefore Lenin celebrates in proud loneliness in the bulletproof sarcophagus.
And how here to not be “is more alive than all the living” if you are not buried with 84 years.
