Moscow Travel Rating of Top Tourist Attractions in Moscow The Kremlin Red Square Golden Ring Tverskaya Street Grand Kremlin Palace (The Kremlin) Christ the Savior Novodevichiy Convent Moscow Subway The Bolshoi Theater Armoury Chamber (The Kremlin) St. Basil's Cathedral Tretyakov Gallery Fallen Monument Park May 9th Parade Kolomenskoye Alexander Garden Arbat Street Bulgakov's House-Museum Bunker-42 in Taganka Cathedral Square (The Kremlin) Central Museum of the Armed Forces Chekhov House-Museum Dmitrov Eliseevsky store Golden Ring Theatre Gorky Park Gulag Museum GUM Izmailovsky Park Kazan Cathedral Kolomna Kubinka Le Meridien Moscow Country Club Lubyanka Square Manezhnaya Square Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics exhibitions Monino Monument to Yuri Dolgoruky Moscow Children's Railway Moscow Circus Moscow in winter Moscow State University Moscow: Miracle City Moscow: the Kremlin in winter Museum of Cosmos Museum of the Great Patriotic War Museum of the Moscow Railway Muzeon Park of Arts Ostankino Tower Peter the Great Statue Pushkin square Rizhsky train station Russian State Library (Lenin State Library) Sophia Embankment Sparrow Hills Stalin's Bunker State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia (Museum of Revolution) State Historical Museum State Museum of Lev Tolstoy Teatralnaya Square The Diamond Fund (The Kremlin) The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts Tsar Bell (The Kremlin) Tsar Cannon (The Kremlin) Tsaritsyno Tseleevo Golf and Polo Club Tsereteli Art Gallery VDNKh Park Victory Park on Poklonnaya Hill White House Yury Gagarin Cosmonauts training center Zaryadye Park Best time for trips to Moscow: May through September

The Bolsheviks moved the capital of Russia back to Moscow when German forces threatened Petrograd (previously St. Petersburg) in 1918. When the Germans left Russian land later that year, the capital remained in Moscow and has not been moved since.

During the Soviet era, a metro and many new construction projects were undertaken in Moscow as the city grew in population and importance. At the same time, many cultural sites, particularly churches, were destroyed. As a consequence, Moscow lost much of its architectural integrity and ancient charm. In an effort to recover this, the Russian government has engaged in a number of restoration projects in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union. One of the most important has been the rebuilding of the Savior Cathedral, which was meant to mark the city's spiritual revival.

Nowadays Moscow is the largest city of Russia. It is a political, administrative, economic, educational and cultural centre of the country. There are many places of interest in Moscow. Moscow is an industrial centre with highly developed engineering, electric, light and chemical industries. It is the scientific centre, too. The Russian Academy of Sciences, the oldest university, many schools of higher education, colleges and scientific institutions are located here.

Moscow city has been one of the world's ballet capitals for almost two centuries. It is home to the Bolshoi Ballet, founded in the late 18th century and based at the Bolshoi Theatre. This is the city where Petipa's Don Quixote was first performed, also the site, in 1877, of the notorious first production of Reisinger's and Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. The other major company is the Stanislavsky Ballet which is based at Moscow's second opera house. During the 20th century, under the Communists, ballet in Moscow was well supported by the state and it was here that the heroic Soviet style flourished. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, small independent companies, such as Moscow City Ballet and Moscow Classical Ballet, began to proliferate. Since 1969 the city has hosted an International Ballet Competition which takes place every four years.

The city is famous for its historical monuments, museums, art galleries and theatres. The Historical Museum, the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, the Tretyakov State Picture Gallery are world famous. It’s most notable structure is the Kremlin, a medieval fortress on the Moskva with Red Square along its eastern wall. The Lenin Mausoleum is nearby, and the Cathedral of St. Basil the Blessed is at the southern end of the square.