58 Facts About Moscow Russia

Moscow Russia is among the world's largest cities; being the most populous city entirely in Europe, the largest urban and metropolitan area in Europe, and the largest city by land area on the European continent.

Northernmost and coldest megacity in the world, with a history that spans eight centuries, Moscow is governed as a federal city that serves as the political, economic, cultural, and scientific center of Russia and Eastern Europe.

Moscow Russia is home to the seventh-highest number of billionaires of any city in the world.

Moscow Russia was the host city of the 1980 Summer Olympics, and one of the host cities of the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

The demonym for a Moscow Russia resident is "" for male or "??" for female, rendered in English as Muscovite.

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Timber fort na Moskve "on the Moscow Russia River" was inherited by Daniel, the youngest son of Alexander Nevsky, in the 1260s, at the time considered the least valuable of his father's possessions.

Daniel has been credited with founding the first Moscow Russia monasteries, dedicated to the Lord's Epiphany and to Saint Daniel.

In 1380, prince Dmitry Donskoy of Moscow led a united Russian army to an important victory over the Mongols in the Battle of Kulikovo.

In 1480, Ivan III had finally broken the Russians free from Tatar control, and Moscow became the capital of an empire that would eventually encompass all of Russia and Siberia, and parts of many other lands.

Moscow Russia began fighting the Tatars, enlarged the territory of Muscovy, and enriched his capital city.

Moscow Russia conquered the far larger principality of Novgorod to the north, which had been allied to the hostile Lithuanians.

Moscow Russia took control of the ancient "Novgorod Chronicle" and made it a propaganda vehicle for his regime.

In 1741 Moscow Russia was surrounded by a barricade 40 kilometres long, the Kamer-Kollezhskiy barrier, with 16 gates at which customs tolls were collected.

Sokolniki Park, in the 18th century the home of the tsar's falconers well outside Moscow Russia, became contiguous with the expanding city in the later 19th century and was developed into a public municipal park in 1878.

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

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

In 2010s Moscow Russia's Administration has launched some long duration projects like the Moja Ulitsa urban redevelopment program or the Residency renovation one.

Temperatures in the centre of Moscow Russia are often significantly higher than in the outskirts and nearby suburbs, especially in winter.

The Patriarch of Moscow Russia serves as the head of the church and resides in the Danilov Monastery.

Moscow Russia was called the "city of 40 times 40 churches"—prior to 1917.

Moscow Russia 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.

Medieval Moscow Russia's design was of concentric walls and intersecting radial thoroughfares.

Moscow Russia designed spacious elongated shop galleries, most notably the GUM department store on Red Square, bridged with innovative metal-and-glass vaults.

Soviet goal of providing housing for every family, and the rapid growth of Moscow Russia's population, led to the construction of large, monotonous housing blocks.

Ostankino Palace, Kuskovo, Uzkoye and other large estates just outside Moscow Russia originally belong to nobles from the Tsarist era, and some convents, and monasteries, both inside and outside the city, are open to Muscovites and tourists.

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Moscow Russia's skyline is quickly modernizing, with several new towers under construction.

Moscow Russia is a very green city, if compared to other cities of comparable size in Western Europe and North America; this is partly due to a history of having green "yards" with trees and grass, between residential buildings.

One of the most notable art museums in Moscow Russia 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.

State Historical Museum of Russia is a museum of Russian history located between Red Square and Manege Square in Moscow.

The Polytechnical Museum, founded in 1872 is the largest technical museum in Moscow Russia, offering a wide array of historical inventions and technological achievements, including humanoid automata from the 18th century and the first Soviet computers.

Moscow Russia will get its own branch of the Hermitage Museum in 2024, with authorities having agreed upon the final project, to be executed by Hani Rashid, co-founder of New York-based 'Asymptote Architecture' - the same bureau that's behind the city's stock market building, the Busan-based World Business Center Solomon Tower and the Strata Tower in Abu-Dhabi.

Moscow Russia is home to 63 stadiums, of which Luzhniki Stadium is the largest and the 4th biggest in Europe .

Moscow Russia was again the host of the competition in 2010, this time in Krylatskoye.

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

In football, FC Spartak Moscow has won more championship titles in the Russian Premier League than any other team.

PFC CSKA Moscow became the first Russian football team to win a UEFA title, the UEFA Cup .

Slava Moscow Russia is a professional rugby club, competing in the national Professional Rugby League.

Nightlife in Moscow Russia has moved on since Soviet times and today the city has many of the world's largest nightclubs.

Emergency numbers are the same as in all the other regions of Moscow Russia: 112 is the Single Emergency Number, 101 is the number of the Fire Service and Ministry of Emergency Situations, 102 is the Police one, 103 is the ambulance one, 104 is the Emergency Gas number.

Moscow Russia's EMS is the second most efficient one among the world's megacities, as reported by PwC during the presentation of the international study Analysis of EMS Efficiency in Megacities of the World.

The city of Moscow Russia is divided into twelve administrative okrugs and 125 districts.

The central part of Moscow Russia grew by consolidating with suburbs in line with medieval principles of urban development when strong fortress walls would gradually spread along the circle streets of adjacent new settlements.

However, contemporary Moscow Russia has engulfed a number of territories outside the MKAD, such as Solntsevo, Butovo, and the town of Zelenograd.

Moscow Russia is home to the third-highest number of billionaires of any city in the world, and has the highest number of billionaires of any city in Europe.

Primary industries in Moscow Russia include the chemical, metallurgy, food, textile, furniture, energy production, software development and machinery industries.

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The Poljot Moscow watch factory produces military, professional and sport watches well known in Russia and abroad.

Moscow Russia ranked first in the 2007 edition and 2008 edition of the survey.

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

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

The Moscow Russia Metro is the busiest metro system in Europe, as well as one of the world's busiest metro systems, serving about ten million passengers daily .

Moscow Russia has an extensive tram system, which first opened in 1899.

Moscow Russia Central Circle is a 54-kilometre-long urban-metro railway orbital line that encircles historical Moscow Russia.

Line is operated by the Moscow Government owned company MKZD through the Moscow Metro, with the Federal Government owned Russian Railways selected as the operation subcontractor.

However, in S-bahn way, Moscow Russia unified tickets "Ediniiy" and "Troika" are accepted by MCC stations.

Moscow Russia has different vehicle sharing options that are sponsored by the local government.

In 2018 the mayor Sergey Sobyanin said Moscow Russia's car sharing system has become the biggest in Europe in terms of vehicle fleet.

In 1992, the Moscow government began planning a projected new part of central Moscow, the Moscow International Business Center, with the goal of creating a zone, the first in Russia, and in all of Eastern Europe, that will combine business activity, living space and entertainment.

Line 4 of Moscow Russia Metro had the longest time intervals between train arrivals throughout the 2010s.