The walking tour will introduce you to the most impressive and worth seeing sights such as Red Square, GUM, St. Basil’s Cathedral, Lenin’s tomb, Alexander garden with its Grave of the Unknown Soldier, the Bolshoi theatre. You’ll see the biggest part of Moscow from one of the scenic viewpoints on the roof of the biggest toyshops together with the historical background comments and tell stories on how grand princes, tsars, emperors and communist leaders changed Moscow's landscape. Together, we'll look at and talk about the best cultural and historical heritage monuments that Moscow has to offer. At the same time we'll try to give you a feeling of Moscow's current vibrant life.
Moscow's metro stations are famous for their cultural value apart from sheer functionality. You’ll visit the best Moscow Metro stations of the soviet period that were designed and built in 1934 – 1960 by the outstanding architects and engineers and you’ll have a possibility to compare different architectural styles and the beauty of the underground.
Bunker-42 is the only museum in the world devoted to the war between the USSR and the USA at the depth of 65 metres (213 ft) below ground in the very heart of Moscow, also known as "facility-02" (1947), CHZ-293 (1951), CHZ-572 (1953), and GO-42 (from 1980), and now Exhibition Complex Bunker-42. You’ll have a unique opportunity to visit a once-secret military complex, bunker, communication centre. It has an area of 7,000 square metres (75,000 sq ft) and is situated at a depth of 65 metres. Approximately 600 people could live and work in the complex for 30 days without assistance from the outside world, thanks to stores of food and medicine, an air recycling system, and diesel generators. Workers would commute to the facility by way of the Taganskaya metro station, on special trains that ran at night. Even the entrance is masked as an old building.

Meeting point: Marshal Zhukov monument (Manege Sq, Moscow, 109012)
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Duration: 8 hours    

8 hours

Moscow, Russia