Akademicheskaya: from the metro to science and history
A walk from Akademicheskaya metro station through Ho Chi Minh Square to the Russian Academy of Sciences institutes and Dmitry Ulyanov Street
Stories along the route
Институт археологии РАН · 0.2 km
Before you stands a building where time is literally dug up with a shovel. This is the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences — a place where the ancient and medieval cultures of Eurasia come to life…
Институт российской истории РАН · 0.2 km
Before you stands a building where time itself seems to slow its pace. This is the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences — a place where our country's past is not merely kept, but studied with s…
Академическая (станция метро, Троицкая линия) · 0.5 km
You are standing by a station that appeared on the metro map just recently — in September 2025. But don't let that fool you: the name 'Akademicheskaya' had been heard here long before the opening.
Площадь Хо Ши Мина · 0.5 km
You are standing at the point where Profsoyuznaya Street and 60th Anniversary of October Avenue smoothly flow into one another, while Dmitry Ulyanov Street crosses this movement.
Памятник Хо Ши Мину (Москва) · 0.6 km
Before you stands not just a bronze figure, but a greeting from the distant year 1990. Imagine: May, fresh greenery, and on this square, which had just been given his name, a monument is being unveiled to a man whose lif…
Улица Дмитрия Ульянова (Москва) · 0.8 km
You are standing on a street that was called 1st Cheryomushkinskaya until 1963, and only then received its name in honor of Dmitry Ulyanov.