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Viktor Tsoy
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Tsoy

Viktor Robertovich Tsoi (Russian: Ви́ктор Ро́бертович Цой; 21 June 1962 – 15 August 1990) was a Soviet musician, singer and songwriter of Korean-Russian origin, leader of the post-punk band Kino.

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He is regarded as one of the pioneers of Russian rock and has many devoted fans across the countries of the former Soviet Union even today. Few musicians in the history of Russian music have been more popular or have had more impact on their genre than Viktor Tsoi and his rock band Kino. Aside from that, Tsoi contributed a plethora of musical and artistic works, including ten albums. Viktor Tsoi died in a car accident on August 15, 1990, aged 28.
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F.I. Shalyapin

F.I. Shalyapin

Novinsky Boulevard, 25

Installed near the house of the singer.
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Ministry of foreign affairs (mid) building

Ministry of foreign affairs (mid) building

Smolensky Boulevard, 32

The building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MID in Russian) is one of seven skyscrapers dating from the early 1950s. The MID building was designed by the architects M.A. Minkus and Vladimir Georgiyevich Gelfreikh.
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Lunin homestead

Lunin homestead

12 Nikitsky Boulevard, building 3

Outstanding example of the Russian Empire style in Moscow, designed by the great architect Domenico Gilardi.
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Smolensk area

Smolensk area

Smolenskaya square formed at this place in 1820.
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The Torgsin

The Torgsin

Smolenskaya Square, 54/1

From 1932 to 1936, the people delivered almost a hundred tons of pure gold, which made fighting the famine that plagued the country at the time much easier.
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P.A. Pozdnyakov – Yusupov's city homestead

P.A. Pozdnyakov – Yusupov's city homestead

26/2 Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street

Not far from the Nikitsky Gate Square on the corner with the Leontief lane there is a five-story house, personally experienced several dramatic pages of Russian history.This city manor P.A. Pozdnyakov - Yusupov, better known as the P.A. Pozdnyakov – Yusupov's city homestead or Napoleon theater.
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Residential building the experimentally RZHSKT "Exponential construction"

Residential building the experimentally RZHSKT "Exponential construction"

8/2 Gogol Blvd

Incredible home - with the design, "enabling communication tenants cells", solariums, seating areas, pedestrian bridges on the roof and an old underground passage!
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Prechistenka by Michael Bulgakov

Prechistenka by Michael Bulgakov

Olga Filonova, the author of the rote. Historian, ethnographer, a tour guide. Bulgakov’s biographer.
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Kudrinskaya square

Kudrinskaya square

Kudrino village and a courtyard of the Battle of Kulikovo hero - Prince Vladimir the Bold were here in the XIV century.
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