Moscow in 24 Hours!
Moscow Travel Notes
Actually a Moscow article on the blog We were undecided whether to write or not.. Because we were able to visit Moscow for only 24 hours thanks to the transfer we made on our way to Armenia.. We added ‘Let’s visit Moscow again and in a nice way’ to our 2017 wishes, next to ‘Let the nutella portion of the nutella breads that slip and fall on the floor come to the top’, but we did not feel comfortable.. We decided to write a ‘Moscow Between Two Planes’ article, especially since we know how long the connecting hours are waiting in Moscow for those flying with Aeroflot.. The detailed one will come when I go to Moscow again one day..
Don’t mind that I said ‘we’, this is me (Asia), the first ‘only’ post I wrote on our blog we keep together. Because I went to Armenia with a European Union project and this time I had friends, not Hope.. Anyway, let’s see how it is to write one.
If you have a transoceanic flight with Aeroflot, the transfer between two planes can take up to 30 hours.. If you are going to the Baltic side from Istanbul especially (Estonia-Latvia-Lithuania), Aeroflot is both a cheap alternative and you can have a chance to visit Moscow, as it is a connecting flight from Moscow.. Our Istanbul-Yerevan flight was via Moscow, and there was exactly 24 hours in between.. Although we are close to having a nervous breakdown due to tiredness and lack of sleep towards the end of these 24 hours, we think that we are using our time effectively.. We also realized that it is possible to squeeze a lot into 24 hours.. You just need to prepare a little and go and make a good plan.
Let’s write down the things you need to research before you go;
Additional note: We were in Russia at the time we made this trip. He didn’t want a visa from us and as you know, Russia is asking us for a visa right now.. There are rumors that the visa is up again – of course, it hasn’t.. At the moment, it is not possible to go out without a visa between transit in Moscow. But we thought we’d write it just in case.
Aeroflot mostly uses ‘Sheremetyevo Airport‘. From here, you can easily get to the city center with the ‘Sheremetyevo Express’. It takes about 1 hour. You don’t need to mess around with taxis (plus I think a taxi costs 100 USD or something).
Russians don’t speak English very well, but they are very helpful.. In fact, they were so helpful that we felt awkward for a moment.. We said that the guys are warmer than us or something (Russians? Warm-blooded? Nalaka?? we seem to hear you say?. In fact, we still talk to a woman we met on Facebook from time to time while asking for directions).
Moscow is not actually an ‘extreme’ expensive city, but when you tour the city in 24 hours, naturally you wander around the city’s most touristic spots and it costs a little bit. exploding (but worth it!)
Speaking of the Moscow metro; In fact, the stops of the subway, the decorations of the walls, the chandeliers that appear where you least expect it (!), the extreme orderliness, in short, everything is beautiful.. You can easily go to your destinations by metro by purchasing a 10-boarding metro ticket.. There is also such a wide metro network that you get lost the first time you get on.. That feeling of being lost during the day passes.
Most importantly, before you go, you can download the ‘moskow metro‘ and ‘maps.me’ applications to your phones and find out where you will go. pin. Since they are applications that work without internet, they save lives.
We made a list of places to visit because we have 24 hours and our accounts kept more or less.. During this time, starting from the ‘Novodevichy Cemetery’, which is also the tomb of Nazim Hikmet, Red Square, Lenin’s Mausoleum >, Moscow State Historical Museum, also on Red Square, Kremlin Palace, St.. Basil’s Cathedral and GUM Shopping Center (not for shopping, of course, for its architecture), Bolshoi Theater across Red Square, then Pushkin Museum and the Cathedral of Christ the Savior on the same road, and finally Gorky Park. In the meantime, we tried Borrow Soup at a restaurant that we caught our eye on, and we took a coffee break in one or two places.
When you put it like that, it sounds like you wouldn’t fit in 24 hours and you would be pert even if it was shallow. with the excitement of visiting the place, you forget the tiredness. We were four friends in this ‘marathon’ and everything went well except for the pain in the feet towards the end, getting tired of constantly posing, and amazement at the friends who continued to take selfies without giving up (Here we go to Batu, Hazal and Utkuna). So if you have such a long transfer, don’t worry, you’re sleeping on the plane..
Also, if you have a shorter transfer time and want to pinpoint, you can choose ‘Red Square’.
For an idea, write down what we did in order and hour by hour, and then at the end. We made a list.
Novodevichy Cemetery:
We agreed on one thing on our way to Moscow. All four of us wanted to go to Nazım’s grave first.. In Novodevichy, there are not only the tombs of Nazım, but also the tombs of artists such as Gogol, Chekhov, Mayakovski, and the sculptures on the tombstones are so well thought out that they are really beautiful. We were impressed.
This was our first stop, both because Novodevichy was a little far from the city and we wanted to start with the far one first, and because Nazım’s place was very special for us.
Novodeviçiy a little bit outside the city. You take the ‘red line‘ on the subway and get off at the station ‘Sportivnaya‘. After landing, you can reach the cemetery by walking for 5 minutes.. They sell sketches for 2 USD at the entrance.
We landed at the airport at around 5 am, but since the cemetery was opened at 9, we had breakfast first and we arrived in Novodevichy at 9 am.. It took about 1 and a half hours to visit the cemetery and its surroundings.
You can easily get to Red Square from here by metro.. I got on the red line and said ‘I’m at the Biblioteka. Get off at the ‘Lenina’ stop. It came to my naivety and instead of the subway, we jumped on the first bus that came in front of us.. In fact, when asking the driver that we don’t have a ticket, where to buy it or something, he made a hand gesture like “I’ll take you for free”(!). After that time, Russian people = warm-blooded for us.
Red Square:
We arrived at Red Square around 11 o’clock. Red Square is Moscow’s huge square that hosted the famous ceremonies and events of the Communist era.. It covers a huge area east of the Kremlin and was built in the 15th century just after the Kremlin’s walls were completed.. We also learned that the name of the square was not named during communism, as most people think.. Red means ‘beautiful’ to Russians and it was called Red Square since ancient times.. In other words, it had nothing to do with Communism or any bloody action.
We first went to Lenin’s Mausoleum in Red Square.. Open until 13 pm and free. Normally there is a lot of queues, but when we went there was no queue.. You go down the stairs to the mausoleum and the soldiers waiting at the door correct you a little, for example, if you have your hand in your pocket, they ask you to take it out of your pocket.. don’t be surprised. Also, it is forbidden to take photos inside.
After Lenin’s Mausoleum, we went to the “Moscow State Historical Museum”, which is again in “red” color. The red stone building of the museum already somehow attracts your attention.. Someone said ‘5 days’ to visit this museum(!) I guess it really is, and you only look at the photos since 60-70 percent of the descriptions are in Russian.. So we left with a sketchy look and cursing at the timelessness.. It is born inside us.
The ‘pink-red’ cathedral right next to the museum is called ‘Kazan Cathedral’. It may be the most ‘selfie’ building in front of Moscow.
Continue to walk on the square and you will see ‘GUM Shopping Center’ > coming out. When you think of a shopping mall, don’t think of a mixture of ‘Cevahir-Akmerkez’.. GUM’s imposing building was established in the 1800s. We took a coffee break at GUM, rested a bit and looked around a lot.
St. Basile’s Cathedral:
You know, there is a photograph that is always shown in the news when the Kremlin is mentioned, that is actually the unfortunate St.. Basil’s Cathedral! This cathedral was an unfortunate Bedouin. It was first damaged in a fire in 1737.. Then Napoleon liked this cathedral so much that he wanted to take it to Paris after the war.. 20 without him. Attacked by the Bolsheviks in the 19th century. Fortunately, it is now intact and has become the symbol of Red Square.
If you want to visit inside, you can think of the entrance as 250 Rubles (you can think of it as 1 Dollar = 60 Rubles).
Kremlin Palace :
Kremlin Palace. Near Basile’s Church. The most important hall of the Kremlin Georgiyev; still the administrative center of the country and heads of state visiting Moscow are received in this hall. It is not possible to visit the entire Kremlin, it is not allowed anyway.. Tickets are sold in 4 different categories for 4 sections open to visitors.. If you don’t have time like us, you can visit its garden (the rest of us are 2).
Bolshoi Theatre:
Bolshoi Theater from the Kremlin Palace You can reach it by walking in 10 minutes.. And I think this is the place that impressed us the most in Moscow.
The Bolshoi Theater is one of the most famous opera-theatre buildings in the world and is the art industry of Russia.. At the same time, there is terrible jealousy and greed among artists and art directors.. In 2013, the famous artistic director of the Bolshoi Theatre, Sergey Filin, was attacked with sternums, and it was revealed that the attacker was the ballet dancer who played “Ivan the Terrible” in the opera at that time.. He said “professional animosity” as the reason.. Imagine what a tension now!
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts:
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts by walking from the Bolshoi Theater takes 20 minutes. In the immediate vicinity of the museum is the huge Cathedral of Christ the Savior.. The museum consists of 3 interlocking buildings and there is everything from the Trojan Statue taken from Turkey to countless original works of painters such as Picasso, Monet, Goya, Van Gogh.. We think you will never regret spending your time here.
Gorky Park:
It takes about 20 minutes on foot from the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Gorky Park and is definitely worth a visit.. Sometimes, we are really jealous that people spend their weekends in the city in parks instead of shopping malls.
Gorky Park is known as the most beautiful park in Moscow and it really has ponds in the park, people sitting on benches and watching the view, and on the grass. As you see those doing sports, you deserve it.. Our score for Gorky Park was also 10 out of 10.
Our last stop in Moscow was Gorky Park and after the park we spent time eating, chatting and drinking coffee, then lingering at the Moscow Metro stops, returning to the airport and waiting for the flight time. we spent. Moscow is a very big city and of course there was much more to do, but we still think that we traveled in the best possible way in limited time.. (We may have missed a lot, but we will believe it until we hear otherwise )
We liked what we saw in Moscow. I think we would like to live in Soviet Russia.
For those who have limited time, let’s write down how much time we spend on what.. Here you can ‘select-like-buy’ according to your transfer time.
6:00 in the morning: Sheremetyevo Airport’ Arrival at
9:00: Novodevichy – Visit to Nazim
11:00: Arrival at Red Square; first, Lenin’s Mausoleum and Moscow State Historical Museum
12:30: GUM Shopping Center and coffee break here
13:00–15: 00: St.. Basile Cathedral and Kremlin Palace
15:30: Bolshoi Theater
16:00–17:30: Pushkin Fine Arts Museum
18:00: Gorky Park
After 19:00: Lunch, Coffee Breaks and Closing
Additional note-crazy blog 1: Turkey-Russia relations were good at the time we made this trip and we had no problems at the airport.. We passed the passport control without any problems.
Additional note 2: Exchange very little Rubles at the airport. As you know, he’s getting good from the commission.. And choose more young people to ask questions. It’s much more likely to speak English.
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