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Nearest metro: Oktyabrskaya
The Akademicheskaya Hotel is located in the southern center of Moscow, just outside the Garden Ring and at the start of Leninskiy Prospekt, one of the main thoroughfares leading out of Moscow to the south.
The hotel is under five minutes walk from Okyabrskaya Metro Station, an interchange between the brown Circle Line and the orange Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line, from where it is only a couple of stops to Red Square and the Kremlin.
The hotel is 40 kilometers from Sheremetyevo-2 International Airport, and about the same distance from Domodedovo. The drive to either will take close to 90 minutes. Vnukovo Airport is slightly closer, but the drive is still likely to take over an hour. Express rail links to Domodedovo and Vnukovo leave from Paveletskaya and Kievskaya Stations respectively, and both are easily accessible by metro from Oktyabrskaya Station. |
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The Akademicheskaya Hotel offers easy access to the whole of Moscow via public transport and, although not in the very heart of the downtown, does have some interesting sights in the immediate vicinity.
Gorky Park, better known in Moscow as Park Kultury (its full official title is The First Park of Culture and Leisure in honor of Maxim Gorky), begins just five minutes walk from the hotel. As well a variety of rides and attractions that are likely to appeal to younger visitors, including an ice-rink in winter and boating in summer, the park also contains the remains of two famous Moscow gardens Golitsinskiy and Neskuchniy with some fine buildings and follies from the late 18th and early 19th centuries, set in picturesque woodland.
Near the entrance to the park on Krymskiy Val stands the Central House of Artists, which is home to the modern collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery. While many of the Gallery's halls are taken up with the monumental excesses of Socialist Realism, the Tretyakov has now moved the works of all 20th century artists to this venue, and the halls dedicated to pre-Revolutionary and 1920s Avantgarde art contain a rich collection of paintings by Kandinsky, Chagall, Malevich and other world-renowned Russian artists. There are also regular temporary exhibitions by contemporary artists, and the museum is well worth a separate visit.
The Sculpture Park, or Graveyard of Fallen Monuments, occupies the lot behind the gallery. Originally used as a dumping ground for the official Soviet statuary that became persona non grata after the fall of communism, it now contains a briefly fascinating mix of weird and wonderful sculpture from any number of sources. |
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