This is what I did over a similar amount of time in Moscow. Also ambrose to thread.
Ismaylovsky Market
The metro, particularly Komsomolskaya station
Bulgakov's apartment stairwell
Beer at the patriach's pond
Lenin's mausoleum and Red Square
The big park with the rockets and monuments to achievements in space, the name of which I forget, but is a good place to hang out. Also one of the best social-realist edifices. Very strident lenin leading the way into space
A club with hookers and gangsters.
Drink lots of beer everywhere.
― Ed (dali), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)
OMG even better than a barcelona thread!
Space Museum at VDNKH on the orange line. that is the big park ed mentioned. the space museum is underneath the giant rocket sculpture.
Novodevichy Monastery, theres St. Ambrose's Church there! how good is that. its a very pleasant little place.
Sparrow Hills/ Voroberevy Gori (sp??!?!). a) you can look at moscow state university which is an awesome museum, b) you get a view across moscow looking at the Leninski stadium.
If you want a club full of hookers, look no further than Night Flight on Tverskaya. If you want a club you cant get into, try Tseppelin or some of the others mentioned in exile.ru's club guide.
If you want clubs that you can get into but ae actually decent try Territoria or Propaganda. The latter was a frequent haunt of mine.
If you wwant to pick up young girls in the comapny of sweaty expats try Voodoo Lounge nr Belorusskaya Metro.
If you need an internet cafe i recommend Cafe Max nr Novokuznetskaya metro.
Read Blueprint magazine this month for some ideas of contructivist buildings worth visiting that will probably be knocked down soon.
the best little bars are the all time classic proekt o.g.i which is nr chistiye prudi metro. this i think is a must, tucked away in a courtyard, almost unmarked, underground, warm atmosphere, open late and full of moscows down at heel literati. heres a map (youll have to read cyrillic). there was sister place called pirogi, but last time i went back and it had disappeared. hmmm they seem to be here theyve moved and spawned. the whole thing is a sort of literary based enterpise with poetry festivals and stuff.
Dom (the mst generic name you could have - "dom" just means house or building) is a cool cultural centre where they have avant guarde music events and arts stuff. its really hidden away too.
look at some cyrillic, even if yr only going for 72 hrs. its difficult to get about by yrself if you dont. people generally dont talk english, over 30-40's dont anyway.
mail me if you have any other queries. i dont know what you are looking for really.
Oh, food wise, look out for Teremok blini (pancake) stands. Also, try Elki-Polki-Po on Tverskaya, a mongolian barbeque. It is a bit in the middle of brash tourist moneyed moscow, but it is good food and good fun.
there is a good georgian place called Guria nr Park Kultury metro, that I used to like. check the bontempi organ caucasian folk song power ballads
― ambrose (ambrose), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)
If so, hmmm, there's a good falafel place there.. also it's pretty to walk through, and you can walk over across the state to Pullman, WA, and walk there, and it's pretty and stuff.
― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)
nine years pass...
I know Moscow pretty well but haven't done much dining there recently, barring a handful of reliable Azeri / Georgian places i keep going back to.
Any recommendations? I'm vegetarian but it's lent so there will usually be options everywhere.
― Rainbow DAESH (ShariVari), Monday, 2 March 2015 13:23 (eleven years ago)