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Moscow city from above, but its not real Moscow, but it’s copy, that is being stored in the Moscow city town-hall.
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This is Moscow city scale model

This is a Moscow city scale model. It is back from USSR times, when Soviet leaders had a little craze on making such epic compositions. It was ordered from an artist Efim Deshalyt in 1976. The size of the model exceeds 400 sqft.

This is Moscow city scale model

The exhibition was opened in 1977 and lots of people visited it since then.

This is Moscow city scale model

This is the biggest model of Moscow, depicted to a dot. It’s interesting that some of the buildings are not present in modern Moscow. Some hotels of Moscow like “Inturist” or “Moskva” were recently demolished.

This is Moscow city scale model
This is Moscow city scale model

After the Soviet era ended, exhibition started loosing the interest among visitors, it attracted only foreigners, travellers to Russia from USA, Europe and other countries. It has been said that some museum workers even wanted to destroy it because it “takes too much space and electric power”.

This is Moscow city scale model