Trip to Moscow

What attractions do tourists like to visit in Moscow?

Most often, foreign guests want to see the Kremlin and the historic city centre, metro stations, the main building of Moscow State University, the Moscow City complex, the Ostankino TV Tower, Gorky Park, VDNKh, the Pushkin Museum, the Tretyakov Gallery, the Victory Museum on Poklonnaya Hill, and the Museum of Cosmonautics.

Tourists from different countries are interested in different attractions:

• Tourists from the United States, Australia, Great Britain, and South Africa are most often interested in learning about the history of the city, and they enjoy listening to stories about local attractions. They are also interested in Russian cuisine.
• For Belgians, the most interesting thing in Moscow is culture, especially traditional museums. 
• For the French, it is culture squared: the details of history are a must. Many of them are very well-read and perceive what they see through the prism of Russian literature.
• Canadians are often interested in the Soviet period.
• Guests from Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria are interested in trade and shops.
• The Swiss are interested in statistics, education and medicine.

For a first acquaintance with the city, the capital's leading travel agencies offer sightseeing tours that include Moscow's central squares — Red Square, Pushkin Square, Theatre Square, Manege Square, Exchange Square, and others. You can also take a free sightseeing tour of the capital: it runs daily from 10:45 to 13:15. To take part in a walk through the city centre, all you need to do is book a place in the tour group by filling out a special form on the website.

Tours of the Moscow Metro, a unique site in terms of both transport infrastructure and architectural features, are traditionally among the most popular. Tourists interested in the Moscow underground should pay attention to Metrotour, a joint project of the Moscow Metro and the Museum of Moscow.

In addition to tours of metro stations recognised as architectural monuments, anyone can visit the closed Delovoy Tsentr station on the Solntsevskaya line. Participants in this unique tour can chat with metro employees, look around the station duty officer's cabin and watch how train traffic on the lines is controlled online.

Since January 2019, the Metro Tours project has also been operating. Passengers can choose from a wide variety of tours prepared by accredited guides. The list of tours is constantly expanding, so the popularity of the service is growing every month. City residents can learn more about the history of construction, architecture and features of the capital's metro system. You can choose a tour on the project website.

Walking and bus tours are far from the only format of tours for guests of the capital. Tourists whose plans include a visit to Vorobyovy Gory, a walk near the main building of Moscow State University or an excursion to the Luzhniki Stadium, can ride over the Moskva River on a cable car and take an audio guide with them (it is available in four languages: Russian, English, Spanish and Chinese). For those interested in attractions further from the centre, such as Victory Park or Kolomenskoye, there are tours by car and English cabs.

During the warm season, from May to September, tourists can take part in bike tours around Moscow. Another great option for those planning a visit from May to October is the river trams with audio guides in six languages (Russian, English, Chinese, Spanish, German and French). Bright boats with ‘flower’ names — ‘Sunflower,’ ‘Cornflower,’ ‘Forget-me-not,’ ‘Rose’ and others — travel along the Moscow River from the Ukraine Hotel and Gorky Park to Novospassky Bridge.