From July 1, you can watch Ru Yi and Ding Ding eating bamboo for breakfast, playing or basking in the sun on the official Zoo website. The Moscow Zoo has now eight webcams in pandas’ houses installed. Live stream from the Chinese Fauna pavilion, which has recently been inhabited (to inhabit- обитать) by bamboo bears…
A new, expanded Tolstoy Theater Festival will take place in Yasnaya Polyana on July 4-7. Yasnaya Polyana is the ancestral estate of Leo Tolstoy, which is now a museum that has kept everything exactly as it was in 1910, the year of the writer’s death. Tolstoy’s house, in a beautiful setting not far from Tula,…
Author Serhii Plokhy wins his second award This year’s winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize is Serhii Plokhy, whose book, “Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy” was announced at a ceremony in London on Wednesday. This was the second time Plokhy has won the award. The Pushkin House Book Prize is unique (особенный) in the…
You are welcome to attend tango and milonga classes in Bauman Garden. Coach Raul Tisoquini will introduce guests to Argentine tango, its culture, traditions and modern trends. Participants will find out (узнавать) the course schedule and try to learn some dance moves. Open Argentine tango classes will be held on Wednesdays every two weeks from…
Water recreation areas have been arranged in 17 Moscow Parks. Most beaches and recreation (отдых) areas are equipped with free sunbeds. You may workout or spend your time with children on playgrounds. One of the recreation areas in Sokolniki Park is located on the bank of Bolshoi Putyaevsky Pond (пруд). There is a summer cafe…
Foodies just love visiting Moscow in June because of all these sumptuous food festivals. Taste of Moscow, June 12-14 – this food festival brings together Moscow’s 15 top restaurants along the Moscow river embankment for three days of tasting master classes. Where: Luzhniki Stadium How Much: 500 rubles per person. Tasting extra. O, da! Eda! (Oh, yes!…
June 5, 2019- July 21, 2019 As part of the XI Moscow International Biennale of Fashion and Style in Photography 2019 the Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow presents an exhibition by celebrated French photographer Jean-Baptiste Huynh. The photographer’s most celebrated series were featured (были представлены) in the ‘Beauty’ exhibition: ‘Nature’, ‘Monochrome’, ‘Animals’, ‘Insects’, ‘Japan’ and ‘Woman’.…
With temperatures in Moscow reaching record highs this week, Muscovites went outside to beat the heat. Sweltering summer temperatures came to Moscow this week, with the thermometer reaching a record high of 30 degrees Celsius. Muscovites flocked (скапливаться) to the city’s parks and fountains in search of any respite (передышка) they could find.
International Documentary Film Festival Beat Film Festival is the largest international documentary film festival in Russia founded by cultural enthusiasts (любители культуры) with an art management background in the industry Alyona Bocharova and Kirill Sorokin. Its main edition (программа) takes place in Moscow in late May — early June annually since 2010, and in the…
Check out our digest of summer musical festivals Usadba Jazz: June 22-23 – this year the main jass event of the summer will take place at Kolomenskoye park. Bosco Fresh Fest: June 29 – this year it will take place in the grounds of the Palace of Pioneers. Main headliners are James Blake, and Roisin…