ТайлбарPushing a barge on the Moskva River, Moscow.jpg
This was also taken from Sparrow Hill, looking along a curved section of the Moscow River, with the still-under-construction "city of Moscow" rising up in the background. I was told that this was intended to rival the "City of London" complex, with offices for financial, stock-exchange, and banking organizations.
These photos were taken during a week-long trip to Russia in September 2008, the last four days of which were spent in Moscow. The first several photos were taken from the window of my hotel room, on the 24th floor of a massive complex known as the "Cosmos" hotel at the northern edge of the city. The others were taken during a 3-hour drive to see various scenic areas of Moscow (some of which, like Red Square, I had already seen and photographed on an earlier trip to Moscow in April 2008)
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