The city of Moscow is rich in history, art, architecture, and human experience. Muscovites have seen the fall of Napoleon, the rise and fall of the Tsars, the rise and fall of Communism, and now the rise of Democracy. (These experiences have made them a thirsty lot, at least judging by this web site. )

The attached set of placemarks is meant as a guide to major points of tourist interest in the area that are also within the high-resolution inset.


Moscow in 1893, from the Perry-Casta�eda Library Map Collection.

To see the Moscow of today, click on the attachment above!

P.S. If it is ever my good fortune to take my camera to Moscow, I will revisit this post to illustrate these placemarks.

(2005/01/04: v2, enhanced folder organization)
(2005/01/04: v3, added railroad stations)
(2005/01/05: v4, added airports and the Seven Sisters)

Outstanding, as usual, Seer. For Christmas I got NatGeo's Atlas of the World 8th Edition. Already had the 7th Edition since '94, but by then it was already out of date with the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, and I've passed it on to my little brother. There's several new features with this one. Better sat. photo's (the global view that they made a poster out of in their last issue is the title page), password protected access to their online map collection (look for these coming to an EarthViewer near you ) and a Cities section with graphic city maps for 50 cities worldwide. And in that section they show a layered bar chart map of city populations in 1950, 2000, and 2015 (estimated). Of all the cities represented, Moscow was the only one that is expected to have a population decrease. (except for London, which is expected to stay at 7.6 million. Guess they're plum full over there. No wonder you can ask 35M for a house.)

PS...Highly recommend this atlas to anyone. It is pricey, $145 for non-members and $85 for members. And I paid for my last one and thought it was well worth it, use it all the time in conjunction with KH. I know it can be found at Amazon.com, probably at a reduced price. That's where this last one came from, but I doubt it's as cheap as the members price.

PSS.......this is the hard bound edition I'm talking about. They also offer a soft copy that's quite a bit cheaper.

The clarity of the images, of the city of Moscow is terrific. Your info in well appreciated. I�m rather surprised at the number of occurrences of what appears to be sun glare throughout the city.
The white spires that dot the city scape all pointing south. Near Kursk station a large glare spot is not actually being reflected off of any structure but there it is. Maybe it�s not sun glare after all.

Hey, Seer, can you please post a kml showing the location of all "Stalin's Seven Sisters" and the couple of new buildings that claims to be the 8th?

Here they are the Seven Sisters of Stalin! built in the 50's in the famous style, notice the placemarks include links to a nice page about the sisters

http://members.tripod.com/rossiya_david/id22.htm

Good source. I went ahead and included these buildings into the KML file.

Did you know that the County of Santa Clara, California and the Region of Moscow, in the Russian Federation are sister areas, committed to fostering close working relationships among the art, commerce, culture, education, technology and government communities in their respective locales?



As it turns out, California is very sisterly.

Homework 1: What three sister cities have the same name?

Homework 2: Is there a poem about these three cities?

Pretty sure you mean "San Jose" for the answer to number one. (Long Beach, San Clemente, and San Jose all have a sister city named San Jose)

However, I have searched high and low for a poem without success. Guess I will have to try a different search engine...

Nope, not San Jose.

Here is the hint ...drumroll... No, there is not a poem about the three cities. But, once you know the name of the cities you will know why it would be difficult to write a poem about them!

Oh... Easy after that last clue... Orange, which also has no words that rhyme.

But there are still 3 cities that have a San Jose as their sisters.... But I guess that would make 4 total San Jose's