Moscow Revisited - May 2019

Ukraine Hotel and the CBD behind

May found me back in Moscow for three days towards the middle of the month. I was last here in 2012 for a short visit, but we also lived here between 2000-2005. May is usually a good month to visit the capital as the colder months are over and the Spring weather means that it’s usually warm enough for alfresco dining.

I arrived at Domodedovo airport on the Monday evening with a colleague and we travelled into Moscow by car arriving there around 4:30pm. We were staying at the Lotte on Novinsky Boulevard which is close to the office and the Old Arbat which is popular with locals and tourists alike and only a 20 minute walk from Red Square.

Moscow has developed over the last 7 years with the construction of a whole new business district which provides a skyline that rivals any of the major cities in the world, as can be seen in the above photograph. The Moskva river was busy with the usual pleasure boats and ferry’s having emerged from their winter hibernation and the City seemed to be enjoying its Spring.

I was pressed for time again, as always, and so travelling light, leaving my Nikon D800 DSLR and Sony A6500 at home. The photographs here were all made on my old Nikon P7000 and edited in Lightroom.

The Kremlin

Red Square

The Eternal Flame dedicated to the fallen of World War II

St. Basil's

The Old Arbat

The New Arbat

Moskva River