Interesting Facts

- Moscow is the capital of the Federation of Russia and is over eight hundred and fifty years old.

- The famous Moscow State Circus has been performing in the city and throughout the country for two hundred years and was given strong support during the Communist era.

- Moscow's Metro was constructed in the 1930s and is renowned for its numerous chandeliers and marble decoration.

- During the Soviet era (USSR), Moscow time (UTC/GMT +3) was the existing time zone used within the republics of Kalininigrad, Ukraine, Belarus and Baltic. Presently, these republics lie 1 hour behind the Moscow time.