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Arrival day will be Friday the 27.03. 2020 and the departure day
the 05.04.2020. Between this time you will have a great program mix
(academic, social, leisure, cultural part). We will also have a
Weekend Trip outside of Moscow in a small village not far away from
the city.
You will be hosted in a hostel, student dormitory or some
similar institution.
We will have some lunch in the local restaurants or canteen, all
other meals will be cooked and served by your helpful organizers!
:)
Let us know about it as soon as possible. This will be of great
help to us in case of delays or other problems.
We bet you'll need one :) As long as you get accepted, we’ll
send all information regarding the visa issue.
This is very important for you. You must bring health insurance,
or something similar.
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Save all useful information on your phone (including this guide)
+ make notes on paper.
Passport, international student ID (ISIC), Visa, insurance
papers.
Ca$h plus credit card for souvenirs, arriva&departurel day
transport and extra food.
Medicines (but not weed), towel, toothbrush, hygiene stuff,
writing stuff.
Warm stuff (socks etc.), slippers, good outdoor shoes,
sunglasses, umbrella, suit (for company visits & official
opening), swimsuit (for baths).
Musical instruments, camera, playing cards.
Food and drinks (for International Evening), songs, dances,
flags, clothes.
Huge, tremendous, incredible sense of humor, lots of energy,
YOUR BEST SPIRIT AND GOOOD MOOOD!!!
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We bet you’re going to use a plane, so there are three main
airports:
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Sheremetyevo International Airport is an international airport
(what a surprise) located in Khimki,
Moscow region, 29 km northwest of central Moscow.
It is the largest Russian airport for scheduled international
flights, with frequent express trains to city.
The main international terminal is Sheremetyevo F.
Phone: +7 (495) 578-65-65.
Aeroexpress. On 28 August 2009 direct railway communication was
opened between the Belorussky
Railway Station and the Sheremetyevo International Airport. In
trains to “Sheremetevo” the
passengers may use new business class coaches. They are offered
reserved seat with an extra space,
free newspapers, hot drinks, refreshments, as well as wireless
Internet access.
Departure from Belorussky railway station from 05:30 until 00:30
every 30 minutes. Deprture from
Sheremetyevo from 05:00 until 00:30 every 30 minutes. Time of
Journey: 35 minutes.
The fare is: 420 RUB (Standard, www.aeroexpress.ru and app), 470
RUB (Standard, at place), 1000
RUB, (Business), 840 RUB (Round Trip).
Aeroexpress phone: +7 (800) 700-33-77.
Bus. Rechnoy vokzal: №949 (06:45-21:45, 75RUB), №851
(05:37-00:45, 50RUB). Planernaya: №817 (05:22-00:18, 30RUB), №948
(06:45-21:45, 75RUB).
Taxi. Booking: +7-964-588-88-80. Terminal F: +7-925-256-20-50,
+7-495-578-80-63,
+7-925-249-73-73, +7-495-578-23-74. It costs about 2100RUB to
the center of Moscow
http://www.aeroexpress.ru/
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Moscow Domodedovo Airport or Domodedovo International Airport is
an international airport
(wow, slow down) located on the territory of Domodedovom, Moscow
region, 42 kilometers
south-southeast from the center of Moscow.
Phone: +7-495-933-66-66.
Aeroexpress. Paveletsky railway station has a city passenger
terminal connected to Domodedovo
airport by high-speed railway. The comfortable high-speed
Aeroexpress train travels between
Paveletsky-Moscow and Domodovo Airport.
Departure from Paveletsky-Moscow from 06:00 until 00:30 every 30
munites. Departure from
Domodedovo Airport from 06:00 until 00:00 every 30 minutes. Time
of Journey: 45 minutes. Other
information: see Sheremetyevo.
Bus. Domodedovskaya: №308 (06:00-00:00, 100 RUB, 30 minutes,
departure every 15 minutes).
Minibus. Domodedovskaya: №308 (every 15 min 06:00-00:00, every
40 min 00:00-06:00).
Taxi. +7-495-777-57-77 (“Formula”), +7-495-775-67-75
(“MV-Motors”), +7-495-933-03-03 (“Nexi”).
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Vnukovo International Airport, is a dual runway international
airport (we know, right) located in
Vnukovo, Moscow region, 28 kilometers southwest from the center
of Moscow.
Phone: +7-495-937-55-55.
Aeroexpress. From metro Kievskaya (Kievsky Railway Station).
Departure from Kievsky Railway Station
HOURLY from 06:00 until 00:01. Departure from Vnukovo HOURLY
from 06:00 until 00:01. Time of
Journey: 35 minutes.
Bus. Yugo-Zapadnaya, Troparyovo: №611, 611с (05:00-01:00, 40
min, every ~20 min, 50RUB).
Shuttle. Yugo-Zapadnaya: №45м (07:00-22:30, every 10 min,
150RUB).
Taxi. You can book a taxi at first floor of the terminals A and
B. +7-499-955-0-654 (“Moscow”).
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The oldest evidence of humans on the territory of , the capital
of Russian
Federation, dates from the Stone Age. In the end of 11th century
Moscow was a small town with the
feudal center and trade suburb situated at the mouth of the
Neglinnaya River. The first reference to
Moscow dates from 1147 when it was an obscure town in a small
province inhabited mostly by
Merya, speakers of a now extinct Finnic language.
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So our capital is 868 years old now. Its favorable position on
the headwaters of the Volga
river contributed to steady expansion. Moscow was also stable
and prosperous for many years and
attracted a large numbers of refugees from across Russia. In
1380, prince Dmitry Donskoy of
Moscow led a united Russian army to an important victory over
the Mongols in the Battle of
Kulikovo. After that, Moscow took the leading role in liberating
Russia from Mongol domination. In
1480, Ivan III had finally broken the Russians free from Tatar
control and Moscow became the
capital of an empire that would eventually encompass all of
Russia and Siberia, and parts of many
other lands.
ceased to be Russia’s capital when in 1703 Peter the Great
constructed St.
Petersburg on the Baltic coast. Following the success of the
Russian Revolution of 1917, Lenin,
fearing possible foreign invasion, moved the capital from St.
Petersburg back to Moscow on March
5, 1918.
When Napoleon invaded in 1812, the Moscovites burned the city
and evacuated, as
Napoleon’s forces were approaching on September 14. Napoleon’s
army, plagued by hunger, cold
and poor supply lines, was forced to retreat.
has withstood a lot of battles and invasions, a couple of
revolutions,
thousands of bombs and now it’s the largest Russian city with
population of over 15 million people
covering 1081 square kilometers of territory. It’s a political,
financial and cultural center of our
country. The population of Moscow is multinational and main
language is Russian. The climate is
rather cold. Average temperature of winter months is -8 °C (17.6
°F) and in summer there’s +17 °C
(62.6 °F) on average. Actually, there could be down to -30 °C
(13 °F) and up to +40 °C (104 °F) .
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« is a Central Park of Moscow, with an attendance of more 100,
000 a day on the weekend. « There is a legend of a secret branch,
the so-called Metro-2: bunkers and tunnels connecting the Kremlin
and
other strategic facilities.
« Since its opening, Metro did not work only once – on October
16, 1941. The Germans came very close to
the planning to destroy it. However, by the end of that day the
Metro got back
on track.
« Moscow boasts the largest number of billionaires in the world.
According to the Forbes, there are 84
billionaires in the city with the combined wealth of 367 billion
dollars.
« On June 29, 1904 Moscow experienced a real tornado, that
destroyed several nearby villages (present- day
Moscow), and broke the centuries-old trees in the area of
Sokolniki.
« is the largest in Europe, with its 43 million objects storage
(maps, sheet music,
sound recordings, rare books, dissertations, newspapers). In the
70s at the peak of the popularity of
The Beatles, the library was tagged as the “Lennon
Bitlioteka”.
« Nine million passengers use the Moscow metro daily. This is
more than London and New York subways
combined.
« Beware that you’re going toward the city center if you hear a
male voice announcing the
stations in Moscow Metro, and female voice if leaving the city
center. And then again, male voice when
moving in a clockwise direction, and female when against it.
« opened in Pushkin Square on January 31, 1990. The line to the
cafe
ran for several kilometers on that winter day.
« , as we know it, was built by the Italians. When in the XV
century its walls and temples
got seriously dilapidated and needed repair, the Russian
architects were unable to cope with this problem.
So the Grand Duke Ivan III invited foreign experts to Moscow,
under the leadership of which were built new
temples and walls.
« Before the XX century, the walls of the Kremlin were
traditionally whitewashed, so Moscow was called
“White Stone”.
« is the highest tower in Europe with an overall height of 540
m. « Moscow gets its name from the river. According to one version,
on the Old Slavonic “Moscow” meant
“wet”, as Moscow was built on swamps.
« is one of the oldest in Moscow. It’s 520 years old.
« , named after the ancient road, is older that Moscow
itself!
« of whole Russia was founded in 1864 in Moscow. At the moment
it is home
to more than 3,000 animals of 550 species from all over the
world.
« is the world’s largest university building in the world. «
There are 7 identical high-rise buildings in Moscow: 2 hotels, 2
office buildings, 2 houses and a
university. These are Stalin skyscrapers, or Seven Sisters, and
there used to be Seven Hills Moscow
stood on in XIV century.
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Check it out: https://metro.yandex.ru.
+Download app Yandex.Metro to calculate your time in the
Metro.
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3G/4G on the street is common. Free Wi-Fi in the Metro and many
public places!
Call 112 (even without SIM-card).
+7. You may’d like to buy a Russian SIM card, it’s very cheap,
operators: MTS, Beeline, Megafon.
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Cars, roads, football, bears,
atomic energy, vodka.
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It’s better to change your money not in an airport, but in any
bank or exchange
point. But you may buy up to 1000 rubles in arrival day for
water/tickets/something. This
days ruble is weak, so bring all your euros and buy our oil
(please).
For your comfort you can use your credit card (VISA,
MasterCard).
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Artem Burcha Main Organizer
[email protected] +7 985 289 14 45
Victoria Lukyashchenko Academic Responsible
[email protected] +7 916 388 66 49
Vladimir Putin President of Russian Federation
[email protected] +7 800 200 23 16
mailto:[email protected]
