Tourism in Russia

Tourism in Russia

Moscow (Russian: Москва, and pronounced: Mskڤa), the capital of Russia, located on the Moscow River and covers an area of the total amount of 878.7 km 2, population is increasing and arrived in the 2004 census to 11.2 million. According to the administrative division of the federal entities of Russia Moscow is one of two cities Vdralitin (with St. پtrosbrگ) and located within the central federal region.

The enumeration of more than 10 million people, the order of Moscow between the countries of the world where the census is the atheist Twenty. It is the largest and most developed cities in Russia and Moscow attract investor interest because of the advanced infrastructure, and the large number of the population, and a large number of business opportunities.

Most Amooskoyen live in apartments consist of a room or two rooms, the majority of apartments are located in high-rise buildings constructed in the fifties. The inhabitants of Moscow's housing crisis and poor in the case of buildings. Families have been waiting several years to get their own apartments.

Moscow is the transport center in Russia, spreading the road and rail from Moscow to all regions of Russia. There is in Moscow, the largest of four major airports Domodedovo airport, which is located south of Moscow. Moscow Canal and up the Volga River city, the longest river in Europe.

There are 140 in the Moscow metro station a great beauty, and the designs vary from station to another, and many of them decorated with chandeliers, sculptures, drawings, and marble. The metro rail extends about 225 km, was opened in 1935. Metro moves more than 7 million people a day.

Recent developments

Built thousands of high-rise buildings in Moscow in the fifties of the twentieth century AD, some of which consist of 25 floors. And expanded the city limits in 1960 to more than double the area, due to adopt a new map of the city. And hosted the Moscow Summer Olympics in 1980.

And held its first democratic elections to elect the People's Congress in 1990. And won the election advocates of democracy. In August 1991, Moscow was the center of the demonstrations that helped to thwart the communist coup aimed to isolate the Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Gorbachev resigned on December 25, 1991, resolution of the Soviet Union, and Russia formed with some of the other republics of the Commonwealth of Independent States. Moscow remained the capital of Russia, and became the Union's headquarters in the city of Minsk. In 1993, destroyed the parliament building after a Russian President Boris Yeltsin ordered the army to storm the building. A group of militants had been captured the building after their failed attempt to overthrow the Government Reform.