Moscow
Native name: Москва
(Moskva)
Country: |
Russia
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Climate: |
Dfb
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Language: |
-
Russian
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Elevation:
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151m
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Global
city
category.:
|
Alpha Global Cities
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City population.: |
12,380,664
(2017)
Rank:
#3
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Metro population.: |
17,100,000
(2017)
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Whereas
St. Petersburg was supposed to be Russia's
"window on the West," Moscow has never had such aspirations: it is
unabashedly and unapologetically Russian (nowadays perhaps even Eurasian).
As the financial center of a vast country, Moscow doesn't shy away from showing
both its wealth and its scale: the best (and largest) restaurants, the most
expensive real estate, the busiest metro system, the longest traffic jams are
all part of the the city's brand.
Live(d) in Moscow:
Mikhail Lermontov
,
Maxim Gorky
,
Alexander Herzen
,
Anton Chekhov
,
Mikhail Bulgakov
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