Around Moscow

Moscow held the A Capella outdoor festival right now. It's awesome! The Moscow Spring A Cappella Festival is an open international contest for a cappella singers held as part of Moscow Seasons cycle of outdoor events. It's 12 festival days, 195 participants at 51 venues! The Cat's Pajamas Group, USA are on the stage. And me too :) The Moscow Spring A Cappella Festival. I visited several venues, listened to a dozen vocal groups. The festival involves vocal groups from Russia, Georgia, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Singapore, Spain, Ukraine, USA, Germany, China, Israel, India, Korea, Portugal, Kazakhstan, England, Turkey, Austria, Philippines, Taiwan, Puerto Rico, Paraguay, Namibia, South Africa, Croatia, Sweden, and Finland. A.K.A. Crescendo Group, Croatia. The Moscow Spring A Cappella Festival. All performers sing without musical accompaniment, this is called A Capella. Some groups have amazing beatboxers who provides musical support with their unique vocal beats.

A few days ago I have visited the Pavilion of the Architectural Model of Moscow , located at VDNH . This pavilion can be visited absolutely free of charge - admission is free. The model has 368 square meters area, is a model of the city center, inside the Garden Ring and partly beyond, which includes more than 20 thousand buildings and structures in 1:400 scale, created with absolute precision. The model is curious for its realism: in due time, the Spassky Tower beats chimes, all bas-reliefs on buildings are recreated with precision. All models of buildings are placed on a real urban basis: each hill or lowland in the city is displayed on the model. The model is equipped with an interactive hi-end system for building's illumination from the inside, which can be controlled by selecting objects in accordance with the scenario. The system has a smart controller with a touchscreen display, every visitor can set different times of day on the model and highlight related objects,

Here you can see some statistics about the Moscow metro. The official site of the Moscow metro is kindly shared with such data. "Moscow"  Electric train 81-765 / 766/767 developed and manufactured since 2016 by order of the Moscow Metro Belorusskaya is a station on the Moscow Metro's Koltsevaya line. It opened in 1952. Number of passengers transported by metro per year 2 442 400 000  passengers Maximum number of passengers transported by the metro per day 9 715 635 passengers The operational length of lines in double-track terms (08/30/2018) 381 km Number of lines 12 The longest line Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line (45.1 km) The shortest line Kakhovskaya line (3.3 km) The longest stage between stations Krylatskoe - Strogino (6625 m) The shortest stage between stations Vystavochnaya - Mezhdunarodnaya (500 m) Number of stations (12/20/2018) 223 Number of  ground stations  17 The

Enjoy learning about the Capital city and most interesting city in Russia, which is also my home city. I'll be happy to see your comments and questions about it. Definitely, I plan to continue to expand this blog. This blog is a continuation of my collection on Google+ which I have to migrate to Blogger in connection with the closure of G+ service.

Famous and beloved book characters, as well as cartoon and movie heroes, flood the streets during Moscow’s biggest holiday festival. Christmas trees and street art, as well as colorful parades and performances, turn Moscow into an enormous magical stage! I hasten to share photos from the evening walk. More photos in my  "Journey to Christmas" Festival Album