16 things you never knew about Moscow Russia has 30 Nobel laureates, with 11 Nobel prizes in Physics and 7 in Literature. Moscow City Day is held every first weekend of September every year 4 Moscow sights are included into the UNESCO World Heritage List: Red Square and the Kremlin, the New Maiden Convent and the Church of the Ascention in Kolomenskoe Moscow Underground has 197 stations, 44 of them are the Objects of the Cultural heritage of Russia About 6 million tourists visit Moscow annually. February is the cheapest month for travel Almost every Russian city has its own Kremlin, which means "a fortress", "a citadel", but the Moscow Kremlin is the biggest, though it's not the oldest. Moscow is home to 20 nationalities. The Top 6 are: the Russians, the Ukranians, the Belorussians, the Tatars, the Armenians, the Jewish and the Germans. Moscow is the biggest city in the biggest country in the world. It has over 13 million people. St Petersburg comes second with about 5 million people The crosses and altars of all Russian Orthodox churches face the same direction - the East, as a the symbol of new beginning, as the sun rises in the East St Petersburg was the capital of Russia from 1712 till 1918 Moscow State University is one of 8 Stalin Sisters: 7 of them are located in Moscow, and the 8th one is the Palace of Culture in Warsaw, Poland Epic Russian phrase "yes no maybe" actually means "no" Russia occupies 1/8 of the world's territory MOSCOW AS IT IS
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16things you never knew about Moscow
Russia has 30 Nobel laureates, with 11 Nobel
prizes in Physics and 7 in Literature.Moscow City Day is held
every first weekend of September every year
4 Moscow sights are included into the UNESCO World Heritage List: Red Square and the Kremlin, the New Maiden Convent
and the Church of the Ascention in Kolomenskoe
Moscow Underground has 197 stations, 44 of them are the
Objects of the Cultural heritage of Russia
About 6 million tourists visit Moscow annually.
February is the cheapest month for travel
Almost every Russian city has its own Kremlin, which means "a fortress", "a citadel", but the Moscow Kremlin is the biggest,
though it's not the oldest.
Moscow is home to 20 nationalities. The Top 6 are:
the Russians, the Ukranians, the
Belorussians, the Tatars, the Armenians, the Jewish
and the Germans.
Moscow is the biggest city in the biggest country in the world. It has over 13 million people. St Petersburg comes second with
about 5 million people
The crosses and altars of all Russian Orthodox
churches face the same direction - the East, as a
the symbol of new beginning, as the sun rises
in the East
St Petersburg was the capital of Russia from
1712 till 1918
Moscow State University is one of 8 Stalin Sisters: 7 of them are located in Moscow, and the 8th one is the Palace of Culture in Warsaw, Poland
Epic Russian phrase "yes no
maybe" actually means "no"
Russia occupies 1/8 of the world's
territory
MOSCOW AS IT IS
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