Route: Aeroport (metro station, Moscow) → Church of Alexander Nevsky at the Alexandrovskoye Shelter
A walk through the Aeroportovsky District: from the metro station to Ernst Thälmann Square, past monuments and universities
Stories along the route
Аэропорт (станция метро, Москва) · 0.0 km
You are standing at a station that was once a gateway to the sky. Beneath your feet is the first single-vault station of the Moscow metro, built entirely by the open-cut method.
Памятник Эрнсту Тельману (Москва) · 0.4 km
Before you stands not just a bronze figure, but a frozen greeting from another era. This man, whose arm is frozen in a resolute gesture, is Ernst Thälmann, leader of the German communists.
Площадь Эрнста Тельмана · 0.4 km
You are standing in the center of a square that bears the name of a man whose fate turned out to be closely tied to the history of the twentieth century.
Финансовый университет при Правительстве Российской Федерации · 0.7 km
Before you stands a building where money turns into knowledge, and knowledge turns into money. This is the Financial University under the Government of Russia, and its history began more than a century ago, in 1919, when…
Храм Александра Невского при Александровском убежище · 0.8 km
Before you is a quiet Moscow courtyard, but once a church stood here that almost no one remembers today. Picture this: the year 1881.