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1: Central access road from the international airport into the city: modern shops and services, renovated houses; transformation phenomena: excessive advertising.
© F. Kraas 2001 [back to picture]
2: Kutuzovskiy prospect, central access road from the Russian West to Moscow (residential houses of the 1950ies).
© F. Kraas 2001 [back to picture]
3: Building site at the "Third Ring" near Moskva-City (new office and service centre).
© F. Kraas 2001 [back to picture]
4: Office high-rise building at the entrance of Moskva-City (passage across a bridge).
© F. Kraas 2001 [back to picture]
5: Lomonossov University Moscow
© F. Kraas 2001 [back to picture]
6: The river Moskva with the rebuilt cathedral and the new monument for Zsar Peter the Great.
© F. Kraas 2001 [back to picture]
7: A "gated community" in the northern city centre with renovated end-19th century houses; transformation phenomena.
© F. Kraas 2001 [back to picture]
8: Interior of the department store "GUM": renovated shops with a range of high-class goods.
© F. Kraas 2001 [back to picture]
9: Interior of the department store "GUM" with elevated passage ways and modern advertising.
© F. Kraas 2001 [back to picture]
10: View to the Kremlin.
© F. Kraas 2001 [back to picture]
11: Red Square and the renovated department store "GUM".
© F. Kraas 2001 [back to picture]
12: Red Square and Basileos Cathedral.
© F. Kraas 2001 [back to picture]
13: Zamoskvorechye (central quarter south of Moskva river): two-storey houses of the 19th century.
© F. Kraas 2001 [back to picture]
14: The metro station near the Tretjakov Gallery as location for a small shopping and supply site.
© F. Kraas 2001 [back to picture]
15: View of the Kremlin.
© F. Kraas 2001 [back to picture]
16: Huge housing complex at Kaluga Square (formerly October Square) in Zamoskvorechye with Lenin monument.
© F. Kraas 2001 [back to picture]
17: Partly renovated residential premises at the inner ring (buildings of the late 1940ies / early 1950ies).
© F. Kraas 2001 [back to picture]
18: Residential premises of the late 1960ies / 1970ies. Note: Detail of picture 17.
© F. Kraas 2001 [back to picture]
19: Foreign Ministry in "pastry cook's" style, architecture of the late Stalin era.
© F. Kraas 2001 [back to picture]
20: Residential and office building in Zamoskvorechye (the famous "house near the Moskva" in Trifonov's novel).
© F. Kraas 2001 [back to picture]
21: Pedestrian precinct Arbat.
© F. Kraas 2001 [back to picture]
22: Pedestrian precinct Arbat.
© F. Kraas 2001 [back to picture]
23: Shopping district along Novyj Arbat (former Kalinin prospect).
© F. Kraas 2001 [back to picture]
24: Buildings from the Krushchev era along Novyj Arbat (former Kalinin prospect) - first modern skyscrapers in Moscow.
© F. Kraas 2001 [back to picture]
25: Shopping district along Novyj Arbat (former Kalinin prospect).
© F. Kraas 2001 [back to picture]
26: Subarban settlement with modern houses and dachas in the region of the western outer highway ring.
© F. Kraas 2001 [back to picture]
27: The western outskirts of Moscow with green belt and recent building activities.
© F. Kraas 2001 [back to picture]
28: From the former Dzerzhinskij Square to the Duma building (former Gosplan).
© J. Stadelbauer 2002 [back to picture]
29: Traffic along the garden ring ("Second Ring").
© J. Stadelbauer 2002 [back to picture]
30: Kiosks of the second generation.
© J. Stadelbauer 2002 [back to picture]
31: Residential area of the late 1960ies.
© J. Stadelbauer 2002 [back to picture]
32: Bar-restaurant in Sretenka.
© J. Stadelbauer 2002 [back to picture]
33: Exhibition site Moskva-City.
© J. Stadelbauer 2002 [back to picture]
34: Hotel Nacional in the city centre at manezhnaya ploshchad.
© J. Stadelbauer 2002 [back to picture]
35: Historic museum at the corner of Red Square.
© J. Stadelbauer 2002 [back to picture]
36: Former COMECON (RWG) building, presently building of the Russian government.
© J. Stadelbauer 2002 [back to picture]
37: Sale of souvenirs on the observation platform in the Sparrow hills (former Lenin hills, near Lomonossov university).
© J. Stadelbauer 2002 [back to picture]
38: Entrance to the Red Square (rebuilt in the late 1990ies in the so-called Russian fairytale style).
© J. Stadelbauer 2002 [back to picture]
39: Shopping centre at Vernadskíy prospect in the southwest of Moscow.
© J. Stadelbauer 2002 [back to picture]
40: New shopping centre next to a metro station in the southwest of Moscow.
© J. Stadelbauer 2002 [back to picture]
