A View From Above: Bird's Eye Panorama of Moscow

The Peter the Great Statue, located at the western confluence of the Moskva River and the Vodootvodny Canal in central Moscow. The 98-meter-high monument was designed by the Georgian sculptor and architect Zurab Tsereteli and erected in 1997 to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the Russian Navy established by Emperor of All Russia Peter the Great.

Triumphal Arch of Moscow on Ploshchad Pobedy (Victory Square), the third and the oldest Moscow arch that has survived to the modern days. It was built in 1829-1834 to designs of Italian-Russian neoclassical architect Joseph Bové in order to commemorate Russia's victory over Napoleon in 1812. A six-horse chariot was designed by another Russian sculptor of Italian descent, Giovanni Vitali.

"Years of War," the main alley in the Park Pobedy (Victory Park) and the Church of Saint George the Victorious on the right. The alley is comprised of five terraces symbolizing the number of years The Great Patriotic War (WWII) lasted, with 225 fountains representing the number of weeks the war and bloodshed continued. The temple of Saint George the Victorious was built to mark the 50th anniversary of the Great Victory.

The Kremlin in Izmaylovo is a museum and an entertainment complex in Moscow, which holds various city fairs and festivals. It was built in a pseudo-Byzantine style, based on what palaces in Russia looked like before the 17th century and inspired by Russian fairy tales.

The Mail.Ru Group office building on Leningradsky Prospekt in Moscow. Mail.Ru is a Russian Internet company, which started in 1998 as an e-mail service and now has become a major corporate figure, which owns social network VK.com and some other popular Russian social networking projects.

The Museum of the Great Patriotic War, a history museum located in Moscow at the Park Pobedy (Victory Park). It is a unique memorial complex designed by architect Anatoly Polyansky to commemorate the heroism and courage of Soviet soldiers of the 1941-1945 war. The museum features 14,143 square meters of exhibit space for permanent collections and an additional 5,500 square meters for temporary exhibits.

Monument to Yury Gagarin, a 42.5-meter-tall construction situated on Leninsky Prospekt in Moscow, which was erected in honor of the first man to travel in space. It consists of a pedestal reminiscent of rocket exhaust and a 12-ton statue of Gagarin made of titanium, a metal often used in spacecraft.

The Church of St. Nicholas built in the beginning of the 20th century by the architect Gurdjienko on Tverskaya Zastava in Moscow. The church opened its doors in 1922 but it didn’t function for a long time. In 1935, the church was closed and was later used as an anti-aircraft defense storehouse during the war. St. Nicholas church was returned to the Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church in 1993 and services started in 1995.

In 1936, during the reconstruction of the square, Triumphal Arch was dismantled and re-built in 1966-1968 on Kutuzovsky Prospekt, not far from Park Pobedy (Victory Park).

The Temple of Nicholas the Sanctifier built in 2000 is located on the premises of the Kremlin in Izmaylovo. It is the highest functional wooden temple in Moscow: its height from the base to the cross is 46 meters.

Traffic on Kutuzovsky Prospekt, a major radial avenue in Moscow, named after Field Marshal of the Russian Empire Mikhail Kutuzov, the leader of the Russian army during the French invasion of Russia in 1812.

The statue of Nike, the Goddess of Victory, which surmounts the Victory Monument at Park Pobedy (Victory Park). The 141.8-meter triangular obelisk is considered the tallest monument in Russia.