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The building was opened on October 20, 1880, consructed for the Albert Salamonsky Circus. They say that Salamonsky put the first ruble earned by the circus in a frame and hung it on the wall. In 1919 the former Salamonsky Circus became the country’s first state circus. In 1941-1945, during the Great Patriotic War, the circus didn’t stop working. In its shows it mocked the “fascist war dogs,” and a real tank was used on the stage to “destroy” the “enemy troops.”
Moscow Circus on Tsvetnoy...Buildings The Moscow Circus, located on Tsvetnoy Boulevard, was Moscow’s only circus between 1926 and 1971. Today, it still remains the city’s most popular....
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Novodevichy Convent,...Monasteries Novodevichy Convent, also known as Bogoroditse-Smolensky (Holy Mother of Smolensk) Convent is probably the best-known cloister in Moscow. Its name,...
Kotelnicheskaya Embankment...Buildings Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building, one of the seven Stalinist skyscrapers (aka Seven Sisters or Stalin Heights), was begun in September, 1947 and...
Red Square, nightSites What is now a beautiful square, in the 15th and 16th centuries was a swept space around the town walls. The walls were surrounded by a defensive...
Shukhov radio tower — 4th...Buildings The Shukhov Radio Tower started broadcasting the first regular TV programs in the USSR in 1937. A year later the Moscow TV Center moved into the...
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