The worker

The worker bas relief at Petrovsky Passazh.
By Matvei Manizer  1921

Red Telephone Box

Looks familiar.....
BTW no telephone in it

Moscow Zoo

Moscow Planetarium

The Moscow Planetarium designed by architects Mikhail Barshch and Mikhail Sinyavsky was opened on November 5, 1929.  In the 1960s was used an educational centre for the first Russian cosmonauts.  The building was abandoned for 17 years and then reopened on June 12, 2011 

Novodevichy Convent

This UNESCO listed Convent was founded in 1525 to celebrate Grand Prince Vasily III's recapture of Smolensk in1514. Many aristocrats took their vows here and it became known as a nunnery of the nobility.
Most of the buildings in the Moscow Baroque style were added in 1680 by Regent Sophia, Peter the Great's half sister, ironically later imprisoned by him here in 1689. The Convent was occupied in 1812 by Napoleon's troops, and later used as a female prison before becoming a Museum of Women's Emancipation during Communism.  It has been a working Convent since 1994.

Kudrinskaya Square Building

Designed by Mikhail Posokhin and Ashot Mndoyants
1954

Bulat Okudzhava

Poet, Singer-Songwriter  1924 / 1997

Narkomfin Building

The Narkomfin Building, one of the best pieces of Russian Constructivist  architecture still surviving, was designed by Moisei Ginzburg with Ignaty Milinis in 1928 and finished in 1932.  Its novel architectural ideas had a wider influence, including on Le Corbusier, whose Unité d'Habitation adopted its duplex living units accessed at their midpoints by glazed corridors.  The  building is in a very bad state of repair: hopefully conservation will save it for posterity and for future students of original architecture

Street Art in Arbat

In memory of  Viktor Tsoy

Faberge Egg House

SPAT / Sergey Tkachenko
2002

Narkomzem

Narkomzem  (the People's Commissariat of Agriculture )
by Aleksei Shchusev  (best known for his design of the Lenin Mausoleum)

1933

Centrosoyuz Building

Centrosoyuz,  the Central Union of the Soviet Union, is the only building by Le Corbusier in Russia.
Goskomstat, the State Statistic Committee, currently occupies the building

Le Corbusier,  Pierre Jeanneret and Nikolai Kolli
1929 - 36

NKPS Building

NKPS (People's Commissariat of Transport and Communications)
Ivan Fomin
1928-31

Krasnye Vorota Metro Station

Designed by architects Ivan Fomin and  N. Andrikanis
1935

Stolnik Apartment House

Art-Blya  (A-B)  2003

Peter the Great Memorial

Copper House

Sergey Skuratov  Architects   2005

Street Art in Tretyakovskaya

Perlov Tea House

According to legend, the shop was decorated by the wealthy merchant  Perlov, who wanted to impress the young emperor of China during his visit to Russia in 1893.  Sadly for Perlov, the emperor chose to visit a rival tea merchant instead.

Chistye Prudy

Zuyev Workers' Club

One of the most celebrated of the Soviet modernist buildings, the Zuyev Workers' Club is still in use as a theatre.  It was designed by Ilya Golosov in 1926 and finished 1928

Church of Znamensky Monastery

Street Art in Sadovaya

view from Sparrow Hill ( Vorobyovie gory )

Moscow State University MGU (Moskovskiy Gosudarstveny Universitet)

Lomonosov Moscow State University was designed by Architect  Lev Vladimirovich Rudnev
Built from 1949 to 1953.  It was the tallest building in the world outside New York City at the time of its construction and remained the tallest building in Europe until 1990.  The central tower is 240 m. tall, 36 stories high,  it is said to contain a total of 33km of corridors and 5000 rooms