Before and after: How Moscow has changed over the past 150 years

1980s: Pyatnitskaya Street

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1972: Chugunny Bridge

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1994: Pyatnitskaya Street

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1963: Monument to the Conquerors of Space

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1956: Main entrance to VDNKh

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1940: Worker and Kolkhoz Woman

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1991: View of Bolotnaya Square

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1880s: View of the Kremlin from Sofiyskaya Embankment 

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1970s: Rossiya Hotel / Zaryadye Park

The enormous hotel was built in the 1960s and dismantled in 2006. Zaryadye Park was built on the site.

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1890s: Pashkov House

In 1831, a museum was opened in Nikolay Rumyantsev's mansion on the Angliyskaya (English) Embankment in St. Petersburg. In 1861, the museum was transferred to Moscow. It was installed in the Pashkov House and merged with the Moscow Public Museum.

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1880s: Cathedral of Christ the Savior

The original cathedral, left of photo, was demolished in 1931 as part of the plan for reconstructing Moscow under Stalin. The present cathedral had been rebuilt by 1999. The Church of Praise to the Blessed Virgin Mary has not been rebuilt.

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1933: Krymsky Bridge

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1955: Entrance to Gorky Park

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1893: House of the Merchant Igumnov

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1890s: GUM Department Store

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1896: Teatralnaya (Theater) Square

About the photo: The Coronation of Emperor Nicholas II Aleksandrovich and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna took place on Tuesday, May 14 (May 26 in the current calendar), 1896, in the Moscow Kremlin’s Cathedral of the Dormition.

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1980s: Church of St. John the Warrior

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