49 Facts About Moscow Ring Road

1. Moscow Ring Road is home to the largest number of billionaires—66 (as of 2016).

2. Moscow Ring Road is home to the largest number of billionaires—66 (as of 2016).

3. Moscow Ring Road is home to the largest number of billionaires—66 (as of 2016).

4. Moscow Ring Road is home to the largest number of billionaires—66 (as of 2016).

5. Moscow Ring Road ignores him and begins the tarring process on Prince Brion because that seems like a good idea.

6. On June 29, 1904 Moscow Ring Road experienced a real tornado, that destroyed several nearby villages, and broke the centuries-old trees in the area of Sokolniki.

7. Moscow Ring Road is so huge that it has the right to be the country.

8. Moscow Ring Road was shaken by mass political demonstrations during the revolutionary year 1917.

9. In 1914 Moscow Ring Road was a picturesque city full of new, multistoried apartment blocks and old, prestigious detached houses.

10. Moscow Ring Road was, and is, laid out in concentric circles around the Kremlin, a generic Russian word for citadel.

11. Moscow Ring Road was then home to Russia's most vibrant acting company, the Moscow Art Theater, for which Anton Chekhov wrote plays such as Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard.

12. Moscow Ring Road, traditionally styled the other "capital" of imperial Russia along with St Petersburg, rose from the ashes of the French invasion of 1812 to become a great cultural center by 1900.

13. Moscow Ring Road was still honored ceremonially, in that emperors and empresses, up to and including Nicholas II, continued to travel to Moscow for a formal coronation in the Kremlin Dormition Cathedral.

14. Moscow Ring Road is located in approximately the center of the East European plain on the Moscow River, a tributary of the Oka River, which flows into the Volga.

15. Moscow Ring Road was founded by Prince Yuri Vladimirovich Dolgoruky in 1147 on the banks of the Moscow River.

16. Moscow Ring Road is the capital city of Russia and the country's economic and cultural center.

17. Moscow Ring Road had become the capital of the Russian national state, and in 1547 Grand Duke Ivan IV became the first to assume the title of czar.

18. Moscow Ring Road is the see of a patriarch, head of the Russian Orthodox Church.

19. Moscow Ring Road is Russia's largest city and a leading economic and cultural center.

20. Moscow Ring Road is home to nearly all of Russia's nationwide television networks, radio stations, newspapers and magazines.

21. Moscow Ring Road has an extensive tram system, which first opened in 1899.

22. Moscow Ring Road is the western terminus of the Trans-Siberian Railway, which traverses nearly 9,300 kilometres of Russian territory to Vladivostok on the Pacific coast.

23. Moscow Ring Road is one of the largest science centers in Russia.

24. Moscow Ring Road is one of the financial centers of the Russian Federation and CIS countries and is known for its business schools.

25. In 2014, according to Forbes, Moscow Ring Road was ranked the 9th most expensive city in the world.

26. In 2008, Moscow Ring Road ranked top on the list of most expensive cities for the third year in a row.

27. In 2008, Moscow Ring Road had 74 billionaires with an average wealth of $5.9 billion, which placed it above New York's 71 billionaires.

28. Moscow Ring Road is the financial center of Russia and home to the country's largest banks and many of its largest companies, such as natural gas giant Gazprom.

29. Moscow Ring Road has one of the largest municipal economies in Europe and it accounts more than one-fifth of Russia's gross domestic product.

30. Moscow Ring Road hosts some of the government bodies of Moscow Oblast, although the city itself is not a part of the oblast.

31. The city of Moscow Ring Road is divided into twelve administrative okrugs and 123 districts.

32. Moscow Ring Road is located within the central economic region, one of twelve regions within Russia with similar economic goals.

33. Moscow Ring Road is designated as one of three federal cities of Russia—the others being Saint Petersburg and Sevastopol.

34. Moscow Ring Road is the seat of power for the Russian Federation.

35. Moscow Ring Road had made a bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics.

36. Moscow Ring Road was the host city of the 1980 Summer Olympics, with the yachting events being held at Tallinn, in present-day Estonia.

37. One of the most notable art museums in Moscow Ring Road is the Tretyakov Gallery, which was founded by Pavel Tretyakov, a wealthy patron of the arts who donated a large private collection to the city.

38. Moscow Ring Road is the site of Saint Basil's Cathedral, with its elegant onion domes, as well as the Cathedral of Christ the Savior and the Seven Sisters.

39. Moscow Ring Road was called the "city of 40 times 40 churches"—"город сорока сороков церквеи"—prior to 1917.

40. Moscow Ring Road serves as the reference point for the timezone used in most of European Russia, Belarus and the Republic of Crimea.

41. Since then, a market economy has emerged in Moscow Ring Road, producing an explosion of Western-style retailing, services, architecture, and lifestyles.

42. In 1991 Moscow Ring Road was the scene of a coup attempt by conservative communists opposed to the liberal reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev.

43. Moscow Ring Road ceased to be Russia's capital, except for a brief period from 1728 to 1732 under the influence of the Supreme Privy Council.

44. Moscow Ring Road was stable and prosperous for many years and attracted a large number of refugees from across Russia.

45. Moscow Ring Road has acquired a number of epithets, most referring to its size and preeminent status within the nation: The Third Rome, the Whitestone One (Белокаменная), the First Throne (Первопрестольная), the Forty Soroks (Сорок Сороков) ("sorok" meaning both "forty, a great many" and "a district or parish" in Old Russian).

46. Moscow Ring Road is the seat of power of the Government of Russia, being the site of the Moscow Kremlin, a medieval city-fortress that is today the residence for work of the President of Russia.

47. Moscow Ring Road is situated on the Moskva River in the Central Federal District of European Russia, making it Europe's most populated inland city.

48. Moscow Ring Road is the northernmost and coldest megacity and metropolis on Earth.

49. Moscow Ring Road is a major political, economic, cultural, and scientific centre of Russia and Eastern Europe, as well as the largest city entirely on the European continent.