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Federal district Central[1]

Economic

regionCentral[2]

Established Before 1147[3]

Federal city

Day

The first Saturday and Sunday of

September[4]

Government(as of July 2014)

Mayor[5] Sergey Sobyanin[5]

Legislature City Duma[6]

Statistics

Area [7]

Total 2,511 km2(970 sq mi)

Area rank 83rd

Population(2010 Census)

Total 11,503,501

Rank 1st Density[8] 4,581.24/km2(11,865.4/sq mi)

Population(2015 est.)

Total 12,197,596 (within city limits)

16,800,000 (Urban Area)[9][10]

Time zone(s) MSK (UTC+03:00)[11]

ISO 3166-2 RU-MOW

License plates 77, 99, 97, 177, 199, 197, 777,

799, 797

Officiallanguages

Russian[12]

Official website (http://www.mos.ru)

Moscow is the seat of power of the Government of Russia,

being the site of the Moscow Kremlin, a medieval

city-fortress that is today the residence of the Russian

president. The Moscow Kremlin and Red Square are also

one of several World Heritage Sites in the city. Both

chambers of the Russian parliament (the State Duma and the

Federation Council) also sit in the city.

The city is served by a transit network, which includes four

international airports, nine railway terminals, numerous

trams, a monorail system and one of the deepest

underground metro systems in the world, the Moscow Metro,

the fourth-largest in the world and largest outside of Asia in

terms of passenger numbers, and the busiest in Europe. It is

recognized as one of the city's landmarks due to the rich

architecture of its 197 stations.

Moscow has acquired a number of epithets, most referring to

its size and preeminent status within the nation: The Third

Rome (), The Whitestone One (),The First Throne (), The Forty Forties

(), and The Hero City (-). In old

Russian the word "" (forty) also meant a church

administrative district, which consisted of about forty

churches. The demonym for a Moscow resident is

"" (moskvich), rendered in English as Muscovite.

Contents

1 History

1.1 Prehistory

1.2 Early history (1147-1283)

1.3 Grand Duchy (1283-1547)

1.4 Tsardom (1547-1721)

1.5 Empire (1721-1917)

1.6 Soviet era (1917-1991)

1.7 Metro

1.8 Recent history (1991 to present)

2 Geography and climate

2.1 Location

2.2 Time

2.3 Climate

2.3.1 Climate changes

3 Demographics

3.1 Population

3.2 Religion

4 Cityscape

4.1 Architecture4.2 Parks and landmarks

4.3 Moscow rings

5 Life and culture

5.1 Overview

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