Airline & Holiday Information

Many airlines fly to Moscow from European and Asian cities, along with Hong Kong and New York. They include Aeroflot, Air China, Air France, Alaska Airlines, Air India, Alitalia, ANA, Balkan, CSA, British Airways, Korean Air, Delta, Finnair, JAL, KLM, LOT Polish, Lufthansa, Malev, Sabena, PIA, SAS, THY Swissair, and Transaero. There are also charter services offered in most major cities in Europe and North America.

Some of the most popular tourist sights in Moscow include Red Square, the Kremlin, fine art and other museums, theatres, old Moscow and Christ the Saviour Cathedral. Mementos of the old communist system are also in great demand by visitors.

The Kremlin is a self-contained city that dates back to 1147. It has a multitude of palaces, armouries and churches. Red Square, though, is associated with images of Soviet leaders standing atop Lenin’s Mausoleum in the bitter cold, while viewing parades of military power.

Surviving artefacts of old Moscow include Novodevichy Convent and Cemetery, the English House and the Palace of the Romanov Boyars, while the Pushkin Fine Arts Museum, the Tretyakov Gallery and Gorky House Museum are among the most interesting places to visit.

However, the newly renovated Christ the Saviour Cathedral, which was demolished during Stalin’s regime, in 1931, is a magnificent symbol of the largest construction boom in the recent history of Moscow.

Moscow is a Russian city, somewhere an individual comes face to face with all the finest and the most frustrating events in the country. It is the place where Soviet history collides with the capitalist future in Russia. Furthermore, Moscow’s most striking aspect is not its much-publicised embrace of Western culture, but its proud revival of its own traditions.