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Way starts from Kuznetsky Most metro station and ends on Arbatskaya.

The way is dividedon 6 sectors for better perception.

HISTORICAL CENTRE OF MOSCOW

RED SQUARE

THE CATHEDRAL OF CHRIST THE SAVIOR

STALIN’S HIGH-RISES

SOUVENIRS

STRELKA DISTRICT

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Kuznetskiy metro sta-tion- violet line. In order to get right entrance out-side the metro you need to sit in last coach, if you go from centre. train from the centre and fol-low exit to Rozdestvenka street then.

The lobby is situated in the court. In order to get Rojdestvenskaya street you need to pass through one of three arches.

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1 Kuznetskiy Most metro station, Kuznets-kiy Most street.

This is one of the oldest streets of Moscow. As always, it is street of shops and restaraunts.

KUZNETSKY MOST

TEATRALNAYA SQUARE

TVERSKAYA STREET

KAMERGERSKY LANE

2 Teatralnaya metro station, Okhotny Ryad

Bolshoi Theatre of Russia, Maly Theatre and TSUM are situated there. Metropol holtel is on the op-posite side of the road.

3 Kuznetskiy, Teatralnaya, Okhotny Ryad metro stations.

Pedestrian street with lots of cafes and number os shops. Practically all buildings there are architectural monuments.

RED SQUARE5 Okhotny Ryad, Ploschad Revolutciimetro stations.

The most famous square in Mos-cow, main place for demonstrations, concerts and fairs.

4 Tverskaya, Chekhovskaya, Pushkinskaya,Okhotny Ryad metro stations.

Central street of Moscow, one of the reachest strees not only in Moscow, but maybe in the whole world. This is also centre of night life.


Ploschad Revolutcii metro station.

Situated 100 meters from Kremlin on one of the oldest streets of Mos-cow. It is consider the most prestige showroom.

TVERSKAYA STREET6 Ploshad Revolutcii, Okhotny Ryad, Teat-ralnaya, Lubyanka metro stations.

In XVII centuries there were ceremonial passages in Kremlin in this street. Lots of cloisters and churches are situated there.

NIKOLSKAYA STREET7

Lubyanka metro stations.

Lubyanskaya street is famous by build-ing, which was Soviet and then Russian headquarters of sequrity. It is former building of Insurance Society “Russia“. Word “Lubyanka“ became to associate with state sequrity body.

LUBYANSKAYA SQUARE9

Ploshad Revolutcii, Lubyanka metro stations.

Small vivid street in Kitay - Gorod. It attracts Muscovites and tourists with its luxurious shops.

TRETIYAKOVSKY PASSAGE8


MYASNITSKAYA STREET11 Lubyanka, Chistye Prudy metro stations.

It is symbol of Moscow. It is very symbolical and could be compare with Tverskaya, Arbat and Zamoskvorechye.

POKROVKA STREET13 Kitay Gorod metro station.

One of the oldest streets of Moscow with lots of lanes, going out of it. It is narrow and consist of low build-ings. Lots of cafes, restaraunts and small shops create nice and com-fortable atmosphere.

CHISTOPRUDNY BOULEVARD12 Chistye Prudy metro station.

One of 10 boulevards of Moscow boulevard’s rings. It is a place of exhibitions, concerts, cultural events and walkings. There is free skating-rink on pond in winter.

MAYAKOVSKY’S MUSEUM10 Lubyanka, Kuznetskuy Most metro stations.

Unusual museum for lovers of Russian poetry of XX century and Avant - Garde art.

Open from 10:00 till 20:00. Wednesday- day off, last Friday of each month- Sani-tary day.


Kitay - Gorod metro station.

Place of recreation in centre of Moscow. Protests and piquets are frequent take place there.

SLAVYANSKAYA SQUARE14Lubyanka, Ploschad Revolutcii metrostations.

Unique and unusual street. It ap-peared in XIV century, when Mos-cow was white-stone. Every build-ing and object on this street has its own inimitable history, connected with names of poets, composers, actors, revolutioners.

VARVARKA STREET15


Biblioteka Imeni Lenina, Kropotkinskaya metro stations.

This is the biggest Russian bib-lioteque. There is also Museum of Book, including hundrends of rare editions.

LENIN LIBRARY19

Biblioteka Imeni Lenina metro station.

Pashkov house is situated on big Vagankovksy hill on the opposite of Kremlin. It was first high-society building, from which it was pos-sible to observe Kremlin not in a way of bottom-up. It was also possible to observe Ivanovskaya and Sobornaya squares, which now belongs stage biblioteque.

PASHKOV HOUSE 20Biblioteka Imeni Lenina, Kropotkinskaya metro stations.

This is the main captial museum. At the begining its creator, the pro-fessor of Moscow State University Ivan Tsvetaev planned the building as tutorial on history of art with copies of antique vases, sculptures and other ancient stuff. Nowaday lots of exhibitions of masterpieces of art from the world’s galleries are held there.

THE PUSHKIN MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS21

Alexandrovkiy Sad, Okhotny Ryad, Bib-lioteka Imeni Lenina metro stations.

Manege was build in 1817 in hon-our of victory in Great Patriotic War in 1812. Nowaday it is used for exhibitions, expositions and other public events

MANEGE18

It is one of the most famous sights of Russia. According to legend, af-ter building cathedral, architectors were blinded in order of Ivan IV The Terrible, so they could never build the same beautiful effidences.

ST. BASIL’S CATHEDRAL16 Okhotny Ryad metro station.Ploschad Revolutcii, Okhotny Ryadmetro stations.

Unique and unusual street. It ap-peared in XIV century, when Mos-cow was white-stone. Every build-ing and object on this street has its own inimitable history, connected with names of poets, composers, actors, revolutioners.

ALEXANDROVSKY GARDEN17


Tret’yakovskaya metro station.

This is the place, were fisticuffsand execution use to held. Nowa-day it is a meeting place of firemans and other subclutures.

BOLOTNAYA SQUARE26

Biblioteka Imeni Lenina,Tret’yakovskaya metro stations.

This is 12- floor house on embank-ment with 505 flats (24 entrances) became the biggest one in Europe.

HOUSE ON EMBANKMENT25


This is art museum, founded by merchant Pavel Tret’yakov in 1856. It contain the biggest collection of Russian figurative art.

TRET’YAKOVSKAYA GALLERY27

Kropotkinskaya metro station.

This is cultral centre with galler-ies, museums, bars, restaraunts and university. It is situated in former building of confectioner’s factory “Red October“.

RED OCTOBER

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Kropotkinskaya metro station.

This is the Kremlin’s gas station, where only Kremlin’s cars refuel.

GAS STATION22 Kropotkinskaya metro station.

The biggest orthodox cathedral was blown up in 1931 in order to build huge 300m high Sovet Palace with 100m Lenin sculpture.

CATHEDRAL OF CHRIST THE SAVIOR23



The community of nurses, that look like a nunnery in their regulations.

THE CONVENT OF MARTHA AND MARY29

You should move from Bolshaya Ordynka to Serpuhovskaya Square, which is situated on Sadovoe Kolzo. Catch a trolleybus on station “Serpuhovskaya Square” and go to station “Smolenskaya Square“.

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Baroque church was build in 1766-1775 by project of Karl Blank. The building probably was ordered by Ekaterina II during her coorna-tion in 1762.

ST CATHERINE THE GREAT MARTYR CHURCH30


This is central street of historicalZamoskvorechye.

BOLSHAYA ORDYNKA STREET28


Arbatskaya, Smolenskaya metro stations.

This is one-flat house, a famous architectural monument of Soviet Avangarde. It was built in 1927-1929 in Krivobarbatskiy lane by the plan of distinguished soviet archi-tector Konstantin Melnikov.

MELNIKOV HOUSE34

Smolenskaya metro station.

The typical feature is huge USSR state on facade. This building is only from 7 high-rises buildings, which streeple do not have five-pointed star, possibly because of its fragility.

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MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS32 Arbatskaya, Smolenskaya metro stations.

This is the main pedestrian Mos-cow street with lots of cafes, souve-nirs and entertainments.

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MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY BUILDING

MOSCOW RIVER EMBANKMENT

MOSCOW PANORAMA

NOVODEVICHY CONVENT

LEO TOLSTOY HOUSE

Way starts from Universitet metro station and ends on Park Kultury.



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1 Universitet metro station.

The main building is one of 7 Stalin high-rises, built in 1940-1950. Mos-cow State University- the oldest and the biggest classic university in Russia. It is also a centre of science and culture. Museum of soil science is situated in spire of high-rise.

MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY

2Universitet, Vorob’yevy gory metro stations.

This is a beautiful orthodox church in honour of Holy Trinity. Two hundredth anniversary was cel-ebrated 2 october 2011.

THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY ON VOROB’YEVY HILLS


3 Universitet, Vorob’yevy gory metro stations.

This is one of Moscow trademarks and was opened in 1953 with new building of Moscow State Univer-sity. You can observe a beautiful panorama. The height of observa-tion point- 80m above Moscow River level.

OBSERVATION POINT ON VOROB’YEVY HILLS

4 Vorob’yevy gory metro station.

Luzhniki metro bridge through Vorob’yevy Hills was build in 1958. Station “Vorob’yevy gory“ is the first one, situated on the bridge over the river. It is also the longest station of Moscow metro. From time to time the platform turns in exhibition space.

METRO BRIDGE


5 Vorob’yevy gory, Sportivnaya metro stations.

This is the biggest sport and en-tertaining complexin Russia and one of the biggest in the world. It occupies 145 hectares and consists of 140 buildings. There are lots of monuments on its territory, reflect-ing its history.

OLYMPIC COMPLEX “LUZHNIKI“ 6

This is the biggest Russian Sta-dium. In 1980 it was the main place of Moscow Olympiad. Just from this stadium Olympic bear flew away, draw tears from audience.

LUZHNIKI STADIUMVorob’yevy gory, Sportivnaya metro stations.

7Nice place for walks with perfect view on Moscow State University. Also you can ride a bike or roller-blades or scooter there.

LUZHNIKI EMBANKMENTVorob’yevy gory, Sportivnaya metro stations.


9 It was founded by the grand duke Vasily III in 1524 in honour of Smolensky icon of the Mother of God “Hodegetria”. Architectural ensemble was included in a list of world human heritage by UNES-CO and considered one of the old-est and beautifulest convents.

NOVODEVICHY CONVENTSportivnaya metro station.

8This is most famous graveyard in Moscow, full of monuments, creat-ed by famous sculptors Vuchetich, Motovilov, Muhina, Tomskiy etc. Open for visitors from 9:00 till 17:00.

NOVODEVICHY GRAVEYARDSportivnaya metro station.


10 The street consists of 4 and 5-floor brick houses, which were con-structed in 1920 (workmen’s settle-ment “Usachevo“).

USACHEV STREETSportivnaya metro station. 11 Was opened in September, 2008.

It is unique museum in Russia be-cause of content and design. Nowa-day there are about 50 outstanding and unique retro-cars, representing all 100 years histrory of world car indstry.

MUSEUM AUTOVILLEFrunzenskaya metro station.

12Main Troubetzkoy’s house is one of the oldest wooden estate houses in Moscow. After fire in april 2011 it was decided to reconstruct building from fireproof materials.

TROUBETZKOY’S ESTATE IN KHAMOVNIKIFrunzenskaya metro station.


13 Turning from alley into yards, you could observe blocks of flats, built in constructivist manner of 1930.

BLOCKS OF FLATSFrunzenskaya metro station.

14This is a branch of State Museum of Leo Tolstoy. The writer lived in this house in 1882-1901 and wrote there about 100 works of literature.

MEMORIAL MUSEUM-ES-TATE OF LEO TOLSTOYFrunzenskaya, Park Kultury metro sta-tions.


15This is stoned compound, built at the end of XVII century. On 1st floor there were weaving work-shops and 2nd floor was dwelling.

LIVING HALLS OF KHAM-OVNIKI COMPOUNDPark Kultury metro station.

16Orthodox church in centre of Moscow, a monument of Moscow architecture of XVII century. The main shrine- a wonder-working icon of Mother of God.

CHURCH OF ST. NICHOLAS IN KHAMOVNIKIPark Kultury metro station.



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OLD MOSCOW DISTRICTS

STALIN HIGH-RISE

Way starts from Kurskaya metrostation and ends on Taganskaya.


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1Kurskaya, Chistye Prudy, Kitay-Gorod metro stations.

First stoned church was built in 1676, the belfry-in the middle of XVIII century. The church was re-built in XIX - in 1806 right-angled side-chapels were added, in 1831 the whole building was recreated. In 1844 side-chapels were recon-structed and refectory was reno-vated.

CHURCH OF YAKOVZAVEDEEV IN BREECH SETTLEMENT

2 Kurskaya, Chistye Prudy metro stations.

The name appeared in XVIII cen-tury in honour of a capitan Lyalin. Lane was built on with apartment houses in art nouveau style. Most of houses remained 2-3 floor till nowadays.

LYALIN LANE



This was an appartment house of Tarkhova- a masterpiece of North art nouveau by Makhaev. The facade is in bad condition. External moulding was destroyed in last years (there were stems and big flowers on the place of current flat contours).

HOUSE # 5/18


An appartment house, built at the begining of XX century. It is an example of “typical project“ in efficient art noveau style. Totally smooth surfaces of walls, decorated only by platbands from dark-green majolica.

HOUSE #8 6 Kurskaya, Chistye Prudy metro stations.

It consists of 2 parts, cut by the passage against Kazarmenny lane. The boulevard in North side ap-peared only after a war. Earlier the open ground of Pokrovsky barracks stretched from Khokhlovsakya square till Kazarmenny lane.

POKROVSKY BOULEVARD


This is one of few extant secondary squares of Old Moscow, with typi-cal branch of Formal Lanes.

The mansion included modern district 3 abd 5 and also a part of Lyalin square. In 1812 house burnt and in 1820 new one was built with elements of old one.

Empire mansion on the corner of Lyalin square- is an example of late-empire Moscow mansions. The author is unknown. There were lots of communal flats full of lodgers in USSR. The mansion was kept in a bad way, so the capitals and some decorations disappeared.

LYALIN SQUARE

HOUSE IN MANSION OF DOCTOR SKIADAN

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7 Chistye Prudy, Kitay-Gorod metrostations.

The church is known since 1625. The stoned temple was built in 1657. In the middle of XVIII century there was created unusual iconostasis with carving of folds, icons and church chandelier. New apse was created at the begining of XIX century.

THE CHURCH O HOLY TRINITY IN KHOKHLY


9Chistye Prudy, Kitay-Gorod metrostations.

Recent restoration researches showed, that existing bushel was built in 1550. It is consist of Groz-nensky thin brick, which was used in building side chapels of Annun-ciation Cathedral in Kremlin dur-ing governing of Ivan The Terrible.

CHURCH OF ST.NICOLAS THE WONDER-WORKER IN PODKOPAY


An example of dwelling building in Bely Gorod. On 2 floor it is possible to see planning and elements of decoration (doors, stove, fireplace), typical for noble mansions of XX century.

HALL OF SHUISKY


Palace of XVII century (1665) belonged to diplomat and clerk in the Boyar’s Council Emelyan. Till 1689 foreign-policy developped in this place.

PALACE OF UKRAINTSEV

11 Kitay-Gorod metro station.

The church was build in style of spectacular classicism by the project of architect Balashov in 1803-1804.

NATIVITY CHURCH IN KUKLISHKI 12 Kitay-Gorod metro station.

A mansion of XIX century. Nowa-day in its interior there is night club Solyanka. It works also as a cafe in working days. Very comfortable and nice place.

HOUSE #11


13Kitay-Gorod, Taganskaya metro stations.

This building closes the perspec-tive from Kremlin to mouth of Yauza. This is a high-rise, built in 1948-1952. There are about 700 flats, shops, post office, cinema and a memorial flat of Ulanova in this building.

DWELLING HOUSE ONKOTELNICHESKAYA EMBANKMENT


14Kitay-Gorod, Taganskaya metro stations.

According to a slab, the church was built in 1595 by “Moscow trade man Savva Emelyanov, a son of Vagin“. The oldest part is one-col-umn basement. A brickwork from small “alevizovsky” brick saved. Such brickwork begun to use at the begining of XVI century. Obvious-ly, Savva Vagin reconstructed old church, existing long years ago.

THE CHURCH OF NIKITA THE MARTYR IN SHVI-VAYA GORKA 15 Taganskaya metro station.

This is the oldest Moscow district. It became populated in XV—XVI centuries by moved craftsmen, doing dangerous work (potters and farriers). Lots of palace handicraft suburbs was there. And each of suburb had its own chrch. So there are lots of churches there.

TAGANSKAYA HILL

16 Taganskaya metro station.

An orthodox temple, founded in 1 quarter of XVII century. The main shrine is an icon of Mother of God “Trojerucica”. There is an opinion, that because of this icon the temple saved its bells, passed through all complicated periods of history and wasn’t closed.

NATIVITY TEMPLE IN GONCZARNY



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OLD MOSCOW STREETS

MUSEUM OF SOVIET ARCADE MACHINES

GOOD CINEMA

STALIN HIGH-RISES

DISTRICT OF BROTHELS

Way starts from Baumanskaya met-ro station and ends on Tsvetnoy bou-levard, Trubnaya metro station.


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Baumanskaya metro station- blue line. There is only one exit at the end of a station. Coming out, you will see a small square. Turn right and you will be on Baumans-kaya street.


1 Baumanskaya metro station.

Ticket price- 300 RUR. It includes possibility to play on 15 arcade machines. Opening hours: Monday-Thursday from 14:00 till 21:00. Fri-day- Sunday from 13:00 till 20:00.

MUSEUM OF SOVIETARCADE MACHINES 2 Baumanskaya metro station.

This is a belfry of believer church of St. Ekaterina, built in 1915. It existed in house of a merchant on 2 floor since 1872. In 1979 house was destroyed, but the belfry remained.

BELFRY


The belfry belonged to a temple of XVIII century. New one was bult in 1835-1845 by architect Tyurin in late empire style. In 1799 Alexan-der Pushkin was christened there.

YELOKHOVO CATHEDRAL


Basmannaya settlement was there in XVII century. There are 2 ver-sions of inhabitant’s occupation. Palace’s bakers lived there and produced government bread “Bas-man“. Or craftsmen made wide-spread patterned decorations on metal and wood. Despite of remote-ness from a centre, Basmannaya settlement developped, grow richer and became prestigeous district. Since XVIII century its territory was built with merchant houses.

STREET BASMANNAYA OLD


5 Baumanskaya, Kurskaya, Krasnye Vorota metro stations.

The temple was built in 1745-1751. It belongs to a small group of monuments in mature barocco. It is a perfect example of Catherine the Great epoch.

ST. NIKITA THE MARTYR TEMPLE 6 Baumanskaya, Kurskaya, Krasnye Vorota

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Passing across the bridge, look to the right. You will see one of 7 Stalin high-rises.

PANORAMA

7 Kurskaya, Krasnye Vorota metro stations.

35mm cinema shows films on origi-nal language with Russian sub-titles. There is always good cinema there. www.kino35mm/en.

CINEMA 35mm


8 Krasnye Vorota metro station.

Main buildings there- apart-ment houses in art nouveau style, constructed in 1900-1910. Houses #24-28, adjoining to the Sadovoe Koltso, were built in early XIX century.

MASHKOV STREET

9 Krasnye Vorota, Chistye Prudy metro stations.

This is contemproray monument- 4-floor mansion 342 m2 , construct-ed by the project of Tkachenko in 1998-2000. According to architect Paperny’s opinion, egg house is the worst example of “Luzkov archi-tecture”.

“EGG HOUSE”



Building in constructivism style was reconstructed from former court storehouses in 1929-1934. Arches, based on thick brick walls was saved inside the building. The foundation with baroque decora-tion also remained in inner courts.

MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS BUILDING


Office-dwelling house, one of 7 Sta-lin high- rises. It was built in 1947-1952 by architects Alexey Dushkin and Boris Mezentsev.

HIGH-RISE ON KRASNYE VOROTA SQUARE


This is the oldest building, connect-ed with Alexander Pushkin’s name. It includes fence and household services, constructed by Sultanov in 1895. At the end of XIX century, 3 floor was build on.

YUSUOPOV PALACE


14 Sukharevskaya, Tsvetnoy Bul’var metro stations.

This lane and the whole district had negative fame. In Bolshoy Kolosov and near lanes were 97 brothel houses.

BOLSHOY SUKHAREVSKY LANE

15 Tsvetnoy Bul’var, Trubnaya metro stations.

This is the oldest stationary circus in Russia. It is consider the best in the world. In front of a build-ing there is unusual monument of clown Yuri Nikulin.

MOSCOW NIKULIN CIRCUS

13 Krasnye Vorota, Sukharevskaya metro stations.

It consists of elite new buildings and architectural monuments of XIX—XX century.

DAEV LANE


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Way starts from Kropotkinskaya metro station and ends on Frunzens-kaya.


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FALLEN MONUMENT PARK

GORKY PARK

MOSCOW RIVER EMBANKMENT

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Kropotkinskaya metro station- red line. It has 2 exits. You need exit to the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (last coach from the centre).


1 Kropotkinskaya metro station.

The biggest orthodox cathedral was blown up in 1931 in order to build 300m Palace of the Soviets with 100m Lenin sculpture. The process was stoped at the stage of foundation. So there were decided to build huge outdoor pool. In every season about 2000 people could swim there. In 2000 the same cathedral, as befoe was build again. Also a monument of tsar-reformer Alexander II and a bidge to Ber-senevskaya embankment appeared near the cathedral.

CATHEDRAL OF CHRIST THE SAVIOUR


This is cultral centre with galler-ies, museums, bars, restaraunts and university. It is situated in former building of confectioner’s factory “Red October“.

RED OCTOBER


5Kropotkinskaya metro station.

This gallery introduces the best photographers of world pho-tography. Besides 3 showroom there is a lecture room, bibliote-que and a book shop.

THE LUMIERE BROTHERS CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY

6 Kropotkinskaya, Polyankametro stations.

FALLEN MONUMENT PARK

There are lots of soviet and contemporary monuments and sculptures there. The disman-tled ones were transfered in park near The Central House of Artists.


It was created in honour of celebrating 300 years of Rus-sian navy. The work of Zurab Tsereteli, 98m high. This is the highest monument in Russia.

MONUMENT OFPETER THE GREAT

3Kropotkinskaya metro station.

Strelka Institute is a non-profit organization aimed at generating knowledge, producing new ideas and making them come true. During whole summer in the yard there are lots of concerts, lections, films and translations of football championships.

STRELKA INSTITUTE FOR MEDIA, ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN



THE CENTRAL HOUSE OF ARTISTS

This is a big showroom. There is also The State Art Gallery with constant exposition “The art of XX century“. It is a part of Tretyakovskaya gallery.


GORKY PARK

This is a former park of amuse-ments. It was reconstructed and now this is a modern and inter-esting place. There is free Wi-Fi there, hire of urban and sport bikes, wooden beach. In winter the paths turn in a skating-rink. The admission is free.


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