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Visiting Moscow
Additional Activities
Culture, Shopping, Dining
- Explore both the old and the new capital of Russia, which entered its ninth century of history in 1947.
- Moscow Kremlin (citadel, cathedrals, armory)
- Red Square complex, History museum building and St. Basil's Cathedral
- Metro excursion: Station interior forms--classic to modern
- VDNKH territory: Architectural styles of the Soviet period, fountains
- TV tower and Duke Sheremetiev palace
- State Tretyakov Art Gallery
- Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
- Andrei Rublev museum of icon painting
- Tverskaya Street (old Gorky Street)
- Old and New Arbat
- Museums
- "Old Circus", "New Circus"
- Kolomenskoe state architecture museum and territory
- Novodevichy Convent and memorial cemetery
- Donskoy Monastery; Novospassky Monastery; St. Danilov Monastery, the residence of the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church; St. Andronik Monastery with its icon museum
- Nightlife (live music, dancing, shows, casinos, and much more)
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- Enjoy exciting Russian and European shopping. The showpiece of the Soviet economy was the GUM department store, which faces the Kremlin across Red Square. Goods can be found at much cheaper prices in other parts of the city, so it is a good idea to see the offerings at GUM and elsewhere. Popular shopping streets in the area include Novy Arbat, a major thoroughfare to the west of the Kremlin, and the Arbat, which runs parallel to it. Okhoktny Ryad, the newest of the arcades in Moscow, is also worth a visit. Built by Moscow's mayor, Yuri Luzhkov, at a princely sum of $350 million, it is as much a tribute to consumerism as his other brainchild, the Khram Khrista Spassenya, a symbol of Russia's religious renaissance.
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- Visit the Moscow subway (metro), with its underground art collections unparalleled by any in the world. Busier than New York's subway and London's Underground combined, the metro transports 8 million passengers per day with a surprising degree of efficiency. The metro was up and running just 4 years after building began in 1931. The stations themselves are an attraction, with their palatial designs that provide an introduction to the development of Soviet art and architecture over more than half a century. Mayakovskaya station (1938) has a central hall with a ceiling of socialist realist mosaics supported by stainless steel and red marble columns. In Ploshchad Revolyutsii, bronze sculptures of Red Army soldiers hold up the arches in the passageways. Komsomolskaya (1950s), the busiest station in Moscow, has upper walkthrough galleries and offers a Russian history lesson in the mosaics near the Circle Line platforms. The Metro Museum displays interesting exhibits about the system. Visit this website for beautiful pictures of the Moscow Metro.
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- Try a traditional Russian-style dinner. With hundreds of restaurants, there is something to satisfy everyone's taste, from traditional Russian food to the finest of European wines to the delicacies of the Far East. The Russian people have always been gourmets, espousing the proverb "The house is noted for its pies, not for its interior." For a list of hundreds of Moscow restaurants, visit this website.
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- Discover Russia's "Gold Ring", old Russian towns which are living museums of Old Russian culture, including Vladimir, Suzdal, Sergiyev Posad (the "Vatican" of the Russian Orthodox Church), Pereslavl-Zalessky, Rostov the Great, and Yaroslavl.
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- Enjoy walking in the city center and viewing unusual and unique Russian architecture.
- Spend a weekend in Sankt-Peterburg and enjoy this beautiful city.
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Professional Activities
- Meet, interview, and choose well-trained postdocs for your lab
- Bring your clinical fellows to participate in associated International Schools (workshops) and let them earn CME credits
- Get together with your Russian colleagues, visit their labs and clinics, start new collaborative projects and clinical trials
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