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The 14th Territory Festival will take place in Moscow from October 10th to 24th, 2019. The main focus of the festival is contemporary performances by theatres from different countries.

Graduates of the HSE University School of Foreign Languages created an audio guide to help their international peers discover interesting places around one of HSE University building complexes, Staraya Basmannaya.

The Circle of Light festival has become one of Moscow’s most popular September events over recent years. Several venues will be presenting spectacular light shows from September 20th to 24th.

Moscow is famous for its big green spaces, but some of its parks are home not only to plants and animals, but also to some more unusual objects.

The HSE ART Gallery is opening its second season with an animation and illustration exhibition by first-year students. The exhibition was prepared as part of a course designed and taught by Russian artist Pavel Pepperstein in HSE’s Art & Design School this spring.

This hiking route in the Moscow region attracts not only Orthodox pilgrims, but also hikers and tourists from different countries interested in exploring Russian nature and history.

The first month of summer may have already passed, but there is still time to discover and enjoy Moscow’s varied cultural programme. This year, public spaces and parks have prepared a flower festival, a brass band festival, open theatre rehearsals, and a Russian cuisine festival.

On June 18, the HSE Art Gallery opened a new exhibition, Comrades of Light, a full-scale installation simulating the space of a Soviet apartment with barely noticeable mutations and distortions. Within this space an alternative history of the Soviet Union unfolds on a sequence of matchbox labels, some of which are copies of real labels from the 1950-80s, and some of which are the creations of project authors Alexandra Kuzetsova and Darya Dolgopolova.

We have already told you about some of our favourite technology and art museums in Moscow. In this, the third installment of our museum guide, we ‘d like to tell you about some Moscow museums that are great for literature and history lovers, as well as a couple of unusual museums that used to be home to prominent writers, artists and composers.

If you’ve been to Moscow, you’ve probably noticed a lot of automated bike rental stations in the centre (in 2019, they are grey bikes branded with VTB bank ads). Bike rental is a great option for short trips around the city in the warm weather. Below are some brief instructions on how to use these bikes.