List of Moscow tourist attractions
Ostankino Tower, main tourist attraction of Moscow
Museums
Main article: List of museums in Moscow
Religious buildings
Convents and monasteries
- St. Andronik Monastery
- Epiphany Monastery
- Chudov Monastery
- Danilov Monastery
- Donskoy Monastery
- Krutitsy
- Marfo-Mariinsky Convent
- Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery
- Novodevichy Convent
- Novospassky Monastery
- Nikolo-Perervinsky Monastery
- Simonov Monastery
- Sretensky Monastery
- Ascension Convent
- Vysokopetrovsky Monastery
- Zaikonospassky monastery
- Chrysostom Monastery
Churches
Guided city tour passing Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
- Saint Basil's Cathedral
- Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
- Yelokhovo Cathedral
- Kazan Cathedral
- Church of the Intercession at Fili
- St Clement's Church, Moscow
- Nativity Church in Putinki
- Iberian Gate and Chapel
- Church of St. John the Warrior
- Church of St. Nicholas in Khamovniki
- Church of All Saints, Moscow
- Church of the Savior on Bolvany
Religious buildings of other religions
Theatres
Inside the Upper Trading Rows (named GUM) near Red Square
The Bolshoi Theatre
Stadiums
- Eduard Streltsov Stadium
- Luzhniki Stadium
- Young Pioneers Stadium
- Dynamo Sports Palace
- Dynamo Stadium
- Lokomotiv Stadium
- Khodynka Arena
Film studios
Monuments and sculptures
- Worker and Kolkhoz Woman
- Monument to Alexander II
- Monument to Minin and Pozharsky
- Monument to the Conquerors of Space
- Children Are the Victims of Adult Vices by Mikhail Shemyakin, located in Bolotnaya (Marsh) Square
Government buildings
Modern buildings
Moscow City in March 2010
Moscow City
Other sights
Petrovsky Passage, View from the Neglinnaya Street
- Tallest buildings
- Central Moscow Hippodrome
- Kitai-gorod
- Moscow City Hall
- Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture
- State Public Science and Technical Library
- Manege
- Vlakhernskoye-Kuzminki
- Lubyanka (KGB)
- Moscow Zoo
- Ostankino Tower
- Patriarch's Ponds
- Menshikov Tower
- Moscow Gostiny Dvor
- Moscow Orphanage
- Moscow State Technical University
- Petrovsky Passage
- Hotel Metropol
- Tsoi Wall
Natural and urban attractions
Avenues, boulevards, and streets
Old Arbat Street, with the Foreign Ministry skyscraper sticking in the background.
- Tsvetnoy Boulevard
- Garden Ring
- Kutuzovsky Prospekt
- Leningradsky Prospekt
- New Arbat Street
- Tretyakov Drive
- Old Arbat
- Cosmonauts Alley
- Kuznetsky Most
- Boulevard Ring
- Great Lubyanka Street
- Tverskaya Street
- Petrovka Street
- Sadovnicheskaya Street
- Povarskaya Street
Squares
- Red Square
- Komsomolskaya Square
- Lubyanka Square
- Manezhnaya Square
- Pushkinskaya Square
- Slavyanskaya Square
- Theatre Square
Bridges
Hills
Parks and gardens
- Kolomenskoye
- Tsaritsyno Park
- Gorky Park
- Neskuchniy Garden
- Izmaylovskiy Park
- Sokolniki Park
- Losiny Ostrov National Park
- Botanical Garden of Academy of Sciences
- All-Russia Exhibition Centre (until 1992 known as the "Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy", VDNKh)
Fountain in Moscow's Square of Europe, lit at night
Districts
- Arbat
- Izmaylovo
- Khamovniki
- Kitay-gorod
- Krasnoselsky
- Kuzminki
- Lefortovo
- Maryina roshcha
- Meshchansky
- Presnensky
- Sokolniki
- Tagansky
- Tsaritsyno
- Tverskoy
- Yakimanka
- Zamoskvorechye
Moskva River
Transportal architecture
Moscow rail terminals
The nine Moscow rail terminals are located within a kilometer or two outside of the Garden Ring. Below they are listed clockwise, along with a sample of destinations served by each one, starting with the three stations at Komsomolskaya Square:
- Leningradsky Rail Terminal (Saint Petersburg, Tallinn, Helsinki, Murmansk)
- Yaroslavsky Rail Terminal (Yaroslavl, Arkhangelsk, Vladivostok, Beijing)
- Kazanskiy Rail Terminal (Kazan, Almaty, Tashkent)
- Kursky Rail Terminal (Kursk, Sevastopol, Sochi)
- Paveletskiy Rail Terminal (Pavelets, Astrakhan, Baku)
- Kievsky Rail Terminal (Kiev, Odessa, Budapest)
- Belorussky Rail Terminal (Minsk, Warsaw, Berlin)
- Savyolovskiy Rail Terminal (Savyolovo, Dubna)
- Rizhsky Rail Terminal (Riga)
Airports
There are five airports serving Moscow:
- Vnukovo International Airport
- Sheremetyevo International Airport
- Domodedovo International Airport
- Bykovo Airport
- Ostafievo International Airport
Moscow Metro stations
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- Komsomolskaya (Line 1)
- Krasniye Vorota
- Kropotkinskaya
- Vorobyovy Gory
- Mayakovskaya
- Novokuznetskaya
- Avtozavodskaya
- Park Pobedy
- Kiyevskaya(Line 3)
- Arbatskaya (Line 3)
- Ploshchad Revolyutsii
- Elektrozavodskaya
- Taganskaya (Line 5)
- Komsomolskaya (Line 5)
- Prospekt Mira (Line 5)
- Novoslobodskaya
- Kiyevskaya (Line 5)
- Pushkinskaya
- Kuznetsky most
- Nagatinskaya
Sights which do not exist
Destroyed or lost sights
- Rossiya Hotel (demolished in March 2006)
- Hotel Moskva (Moscow) (demolished in 2004; rebuild in 2014)
- Red Gate
- Sukharev Tower
Sights which were never built
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