Our 3-hour walking tour leads along the streets and squares of the city which preserve the signs and footprints of the communist past. The guide tells you the story how the communist empire evolved from the October 1917 revolt, formation of the Soviet Union under Lenin in 1922, went through the big Terror under Stalin in 1930s, the GULAG system, Khrushev’s “thaw” of 1960s, Brezhnev’s stagnation, and finally collapsed after Gorbachev’s “perestroika” in 1991. The tour leads you through Red Square and Lubyanka with notorious KGB, passes by the Bolshoi theatre where the USSR was proclaimed, Revolution square, and along Tverskaya, Moscow’s Main street.
Discover the remnants of the communist capital of the huge Soviet empire.
Our 3-hour walking tour leads along the streets and squares of the city which preserve the signs and footprints of the communist past. The guide tells you the story how the communist empire evolved from the October 1917 revolt, formation of the Soviet Union under Lenin in 1922, went through the big Terror under Stalin in 1930s, the GULAG system, Khrushev’s “thaw” of 1960s, Brezhnev’s stagnation, and finally collapsed after Gorbachev’s “perestroika” in 1991. The tour leads you through Red Square and Lubyanka with notorious KGB, passes by the Bolshoi theatre where the USSR was proclaimed, Revolution square, and along Tverskaya, Moscow’s Main street.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Lubyanka Square, Moscow 109012 Russia
You will see the infamous headquarters of the KGB also known as Lubyanka, the Solovets bolder – the memorial to all victims of the GULAG
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Revolution Square (Ploshchad Revolutsii), Ploschad Revolyutsii Close to Red Square, Moscow 109012 Russia
You will get to Revolution square and the last Karl Marx monument in Moscow, you will see the Bolshoi theatre where the USSR was proclaimed in 1922.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Red Square, Moscow 109012 Russia
we will talk about Red October in Red Square where Lenin Mausoleum is placed next to the Kremlin wall and behind the Mausoleum there is necropolis of the Soviet leaders
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Tverskaya Street (Ulitsa), Tverskaya ulitsa, Moscow Russia
In Tverskaya the guide will tell you about the ambitious plan of the reconstruction of Moscow, and you will see the buildings which were moved on the rails to 50 meters to widen and straiten the main thoroughfare of the city.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Gastronomia Eliseevsky, Tverskaya St., 14, Moscow 125009 Russia
You will open the doors of Eliseev Grocery store which In Soviet times was renamed to Gastronom №1 and sold delicatessen products — a rare exception in the time of constant shortages.
Duration: 30 minutes
Categoría: Tours culturales y temáticos.
Inicio en: Moscow, Russia.
Duración: 3 hours.
Precio: 215,74 euros.
