Sorties montagne à ski, à pied ou à vélo --- essentiellement/Short visit of Moscow and Samara (May 20 – 30, 2015)

Sorties montagne à ski, à pied ou à vélo --- essentiellement » Short visit of Moscow and Samara (May 20 – 30, 2015)

After the very short visit of St Petersburg last December, my first opportunity to visit Moscow and also 3 days in Samara, a city on “mother Volga”.

2015-05-20-26-1-Kremlin

Kremlin, Krasnaya Ploshad, the Lenin mausoleum … are of course obligatory places to see for a first visit in Moscow

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2015-05-20-26-2-GUM

GUM, the State Department Store built in the 90ies of the 19th century … and also a few pictures of Gostinyi Dvor, a former indoor market dating back to the 18th century, now used for organizing events, receptions … and pretty...
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2015-05-20-26-3-Metro

Moscow’s metro that opened in 1935 is another tourist attraction --- I am followed by an organized group when visiting the stations on the circle line

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2015-05-20-26-4-MoscowCity

Places south of the Kremlin and the Moskva River. This is a very heterogeneous part of the city including Museums, Palaces, modern but also older and also quite run-down places

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2015-05-20-26-5-KitaiGorod

Kitai Gorod starts right outside the Red Square and has formerly been an important merchant’s district (including GUM and Gostiny Dvor). The pictures here concern only a part of it, a somewhat preserved one with many...
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2015-05-20-26-6-hotel

The hotel is a bit south of the Circle Line of the Metro where I am surprised to see an Auchan shopping mall, just like at home … even if to make it a bit more local it is dedicated to Gagarin …

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2015-05-20-26-7-VDNK

8 km north of Kremlin there is VDNKha -- Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy -- which opened in 1939 as an agricultural exhibition. Close by is also the elegant, 540m high Ostaniko radio and television tower...
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2015-05-20-26-8-OutsideCircleLine

There are several places within the larger Moscow city worth a visit, including large parks. I choose (1) the Moscow University which is located on a hill above the Moskva River with nice views and whose main building is one of...
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2015-05-27-29-Samara

Finally I spend a few days in Samara where I have to give a talk and had almost no time to take photos. One has to say that it is a dusty town that clearly has “grown too fast”. I didn’t see many pleasant places, and the most...
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2015-05-20-00-Geneve

Quelques affiches vues lors de mon bref passage à Genève. C’est un concept intéressant, mine de rien …

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