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Moscow was founded in 1147 on the Moskva River by Prince Yuri Dolgoruki.

In the 16-th century Tsar Ivan the Terrible made Moscow the capital of the country.

Today Moscow is one of the largest cities in the world.

It is a big political, economic and cultural centre of Russia.

The total area of Moscow is about 9000 square kilometres and

the population is about 11 million people.

Red Square in the center of Moscow is one of the largest and most beautiful place of the city.

Many famous buildings and monuments situated here: St Basil ’ s Cathedral, the History Museum, Spasskaya Tower with the large Kremlin Clock.

It is a place for parades, demonstrations and meetings.  

Tourists can see the monument to Minin and Pozharsky in front of the St Basil ’ s Cathedral .

The city is proud of its museums and art galleries, too.

The biggest museum is the Pushkin Museum of Fine Art.

The Tretyakov Gallery is famous all over the world.

It has a great collection of works by Russian artists.

The Gallery is 150 years old.

Moscow is a large educational centre with a lot of schools, institutes, colleges and universities.

The biggest university is Moscow State University.

Students from all over the world come to Moscow to study at this University.

One of the largest and oldest zoos in Russia is Moscow Zoo.

There are more than 6000 different animals in its collection.

Another important place of interest is the Moscow Metro.

The Moscow Metro station look like beautiful palaces, you can see wonderful columns, beautiful sculptures here.

Moscow changes every day.

This is a city of contrasts and one should definitely come and visit Moscow.