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TOP24 CITIES TO VISIT FROM MOSCOW

Contents:Festivals in Moscow

04 u International Day of Yoga06 u Language Sand-wich – English speaking picnic

Expos in Moscow08 u The exhibition “Be-tween war and peace. James Hill”10 u James Hill

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Dear Friends,Moscow Digest is your key to interesting weekends during your stay in Moscow. This week our main themes are: Festivals, Expos and Music. In our traditional selection of TOP places, we will talk about the TOP24 cities to visit from Moscow.

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12 u Photo exhibition Sailing Photo Awards 14 u Exhibition “Pallad-io in Russia”15 u Andrea Palladio

Music in Moscow18 u Festival “Jazz Manor house”19 u Opera “Little De-mon”

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20 u Top24 cities for travel from Moscow

Festivals in Moscow

This week in the capital will take place-interesting

festivals.

Welcome the Yoga day with a cute inf- graphic about yoga benefits and a other great event the Picnic in English in

Gorky Park.

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Interna-tional Day of Yoga

At the celebration will be allocated a space for creativity, where par-ticipants will be able to learn weaving manda-las, painting or decorate your body with henna patterns. For children there are sports games and a special yoga pro-gram.

All guests will be able to help children with cere-bral palsy, contributing to the development of the charity fund “Dear-heart.”

To take part in the fes-tival, it is necessary to register on the site: www.yogaday108s.com

On June 21stOpen time: 9am-10pmEntrance fee: Free

ARTPLAYN. Syromyatnicheskaya 10, bld 3m. Kurskaya, m. Chkalovskaya (same entrance as Brit-ish Higher School of Art & Design) www. artplay.ru

At the summer solstice day - this year for the first time, will be held the International Day of yoga. On the sec-ond floor balcony of the design center Art-play will meet the best teachers and lovers of yoga. Great entertain-ment and educational programs of the festival will focus on promoting a healthy lifestyle and a good attitude to the world.

In connection with the day of the solstice will be the main event of a mass execution of com-plex “Sun salutation” 108 times participants in the festival. Everyone will be able to attend master classes in differ-ent directions of Yoga - Vinyasa Flow, dynamic meditation, yoga univer-sal etc. There you will also have the possibility to participate in classes of capoeira, dance juzz funk and learn about the basics of Thai massage. Prepared training com-plex for women, in which representatives of the beautiful half of humanity will be able to learn all about their health.

Prayer poseExhale

-Your Body & Yoga-HeadYoga helps ease stress be decreasing the fight of flight response

HeartYoga lowers blood pressure, improves blood flow and may also reduce atheroscle-rosis

Lungs65 minutes a day lower the use of asthma medica-tion Ð yoga lowers the vagal reactivity that precedes asthma attacks.

BackRegular sessions provide short-term relief (and possibly long-term relief) from chronic low back pain

JointsAll the stretching leads to less pain and more functionality

Energy - Two 90-minutes sessions a week can reduce fatigue by 57%

The Sun Salutation

Warrior PoseInhale

Cobra PoseInhale

Prayer poseExhale

Backward bendingInhale

Forward leaning with straight backExhale

Forward Bending

Mountain poseExhale

PlankInhale

Eight point poseExhale

Mountain PoseExhale

Warrior PoseInhale

Backward bendingExhale

Come up with straight backInhale

Backward bending

MusclesRegular practice promotes long-term flexibility by making muscle molecules and proteins more elastic

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Language Sandwich – English speaking picnic

In Gorky Park opens a new series of Picnics in English. Is a good possibility to meet new people and help theme to learn English or prac-tice English in a funny way, if it’s not your natal language.

Picnics are held every Saturday of June at 4pm.

Among English-speak-ing buddy to play ping-pong, eat sandwiches and discuss in English the most interesting questions of modern life (movies, TV shows, music, arts, business, technology, mass me-dia, wine and cuisine of the world, travel, etc.) .

You will need mats to sit on the grass and a little snack.Hosts - Luba and Matt.Phone: 8-915- 230-83-48 Luba.

Meeting point: the main entrance to the park.

Every Saturday of JuneOpen time: 4pm-7pmParticipation fee: from 200RUB

Gorky Park 9, Krymskiy Val Streetm.Oktyabrskaya, m. Park Kulturywww.park-gorkogo.com

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Expos in Moscow

This week we choose for you 3 amazing exhibitions.

An exhibition of a war corre-spondent, an exhibition to feel the breeze of the sea (special-ly for those, who didn’t go to holidays yet) and an exhibi-tion about Paladio in Russia.


Between war and peace. James Hill

For the first time in Moscow, an exhibition of the famous pho-tographer and war correspondent James Hill “Between war and peace.” During his twenty-year career as a reporter James visited many countries, includ-ing many “hot spots”. Seeing the different aspects of life - peace and war, James Hill made a collection of his photographs reflect the


armed conflicts.

Open time: 12am-9pmEntrance fee: 200-430 RUB

Lumier Brothers Gal-lery 3, Bolotnaya Quay bld.1. m. Kropotkinskaya, m. Polyankawww.lumiere.ru

the photographer, who was an eyewitness. Along with these terri-ble and often sad pho-tographs on display are pictures taken on the territory of Russia and the peace of Europe.

A selection of photos of the exhibition “Between war and peace.

James Hill “lets think about the causes and consequences of

vivid contrast of house-hold life of the inhabit-ants of the world.

On the exhibition you can see unique shots made in Chechnya, Afghanistan, Iraq, in one of the most difficult times for those coun-tries. Each image is ac-companied by a short essay by photographer incidents in these are-as and the impressions


James Hill is a leading photogra-pher and photojournal-ist and his images have won many of photogra-phy’s most important prizes including World Press Photo, the Pu-litzer Prize, the Visa d’Or at Perpignan’s Visa Pour L’Image, and awards from The Over-seas Press Club of America and the NPPA.He began his career after studies at Oxford Uni versity and the Lon-don College of Printing, leaving England for the Soviet Union in the autumn of 1991.

Plunged immediately into the strife of the war torn republics of the former Soviet Un-ion he worked initially as a freelancer before joining The New York Times on contract in 1995. He was based first in Moscow and then in Rome, from where he departed to cover the battles of the US led war on terror in Afghan istan in 2001 and the invasion of Iraq in 2003.In recent years he has returned to Moscow and travels across the

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series of more than 500 Russian WWII veterans published with the support of the Brit-ish Council and “Days of San Isidro,” a study on bull fighting commis-sioned by the Spanish Ministry of For eign Affairs. His latest book, “Somewhere Between War and Peace,” an examination of the emotional and artistic forces dominating a photographer’s career, is published by Kehrer Verlag.His work has been shown in solo exhibits

in both state and com-mercial galleries world-wide.

His photo graphs are also in the perma-nent collections of the Pushkin Museum, the Moscow House of Pho-tography, The Houston Museum of Fine Arts, as well as institu tional and private collections.

www.mjrhill.com

world focusing his attention on lon ger projects as well as in-depth news features. Hill is re cognised, in particular, for blend-ing a style of environ-mental portraits and landscapes, and mixing an ar tistic and journal-istic awareness of the world around him.His series of books and exhibitions have been supported by both governmental and commercial agencies. Among recent projects were “Victory Day,” an extensive portrait

Sailing Photo AwardsThe centre of design Artplay is opened an exhibition of photogra-phy “The Sailing Photo Awards”, taking place in the framework of World Press Photo, Picture of the Year Exhibition by the GEO magazine. The ex-position was placed on the two balconies of the building 7 (Small Hall).“Sailing Photo Awards” is the first selection of Russian premium quality sailing photos created by the agency ViMarketing! to popularize yachting in Russia. Through vivid, emotion-al, inspirational images lovers and recognized world masters tend to talk about the wonderful world of sailing, which is full of drive, extreme and exciting experience.

Last Days!Until June 21stStart: 11amEntrance fee: from 350 RUBARTPLAYN. Syromyatnicheskaya 10, bld 3m. Kurskaya, m. Chkalovskaya www. artplay.ru

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Palladio in RussiaThe name of Andrea Palladio, the Italian ar-chitect of the XVI centu-ry, has heard every one of us. And those who are engaged in architec-ture, it is rightly consid-ered the most influential architect in the world. It is no secret that with his name and associate the appearance of Ar-chitecture with a capital in Russia, because un-der the influence of his works was formed

development of palladi-anstva in Russia for 300 years, you will see not only the architectural designs and drawings, and graphic works and paintings by Kandinsky, Borovikovsky, Benoit Sudeikin and other art-ists. The exhibition con-sists of two parts: the first tells about the path of movement of archi-tecture from Baroque to Art Nouveau and is held in the Bread House Mu-seum “Tsarina”, and the second - about pallad-ianstva Russia in the XX century

neoclassicism, prevailed in Russian architecture almost to the middle of the XIX century. In pub-lic buildings and private houses, palaces and churches of St. Peters-burg are easily recog-nized Palladian motifs, as Palladian architec-tural elements used in creating structures and in the Silver Age of the cultural life of the city on the Neva River, and even in Soviet times.After visiting the exhibi-tion has already visited Italy and aroused great interest, you trace the


Andrea Palladio; 30 November 1508 – 19 August 1580 was an Italian architect active in the Republic of Venice. Palladio, influ-enced by Roman and Greek architec-ture, primarily by Vitruvius, is widely considered to be the most influential individual in the history of architec-ture. All of his buildings are located in what was the Venetian Republic, but his teachings, summarized in the ar-chitectural treatise, The Four Books of Architecture, gained him wide rec-ognition. The city of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto are UNE-SCO World Heritage Sites.

and is organized at the Museum of Architec-ture. Shchusev.

Until June 26thMuseum of Architec-ture. Shchusevst. Vozdvizhenka, 5/25m. Biblioteka I. Lenina11:00 - 20:00Price:from 100 to 250 rubles.

Museum and Natural Reserve Park Tsaritsino1, Dolskaya st. m. Tsaritsinoparktsaricino.ru www.tsaritsyno-museum.ru


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Music in Moscow

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

- William Shakespeare

This weekend will take place a famous Jazz festival – the Jazz Manor House, a unique way to get in the Rhythm of the Eternal music. The sec-ond event is a unique Opera.

The choice is difficult ;)


Jazz Manor houseThe Jazz music very quickly find millions of fans. African rhythms have conquered vir-tually the entire world. That’s why more and more people every year come to the festi-val “ Jazz Manor house», to enjoy this fiery and emotion-al music.

This year, the 12th festival will be held at a new venue - the museum and natural reserve “Tsarino”, which is known for its unusual archi-tecture. Even Imperatrice Catherine celebrated the unique acoustic capabilities of this site. The star of the new festival will be legend-ary drummer

open air to enjoy the mas-terpieces of world cuisine at food-markets and play ac-tive games.

The festival will open it’s doors at 13:00. The approx-imate start of live perfor-mances - 14:00. Tickets at the box office park Tsarit-syno in the days of the fes-tival will be available from 11:00.

On June 20thTickets : from 2500 rubles.6+www.usadba-jazz.ru

Museum and Natural Reserve Park Tsaritsino1, Dolskaya st. m. Tsaritsinoparktsaricino.ru www.tsaritsyno-museum.ru

Tony Allen, whose inimita-ble style of play is always plunges spectators into the world of African music. In addition, spectators will be: participants of the show “The Voice” Anton Belyaev and his group Therr Maitz, a group of “Metropolis”, which will present a large-scale project “on Earth” dedicated scenarios for unwithdrawn Soviet films of the USSR, Diana Arbenina with spe-cial acoustic program opera singer Hibla Gerzmava and Russian jazz pianist Daniel Kramer.

In addition to the music pro-gram, the festival has pre-pared a lot of other enter-tainment.Viewers will be able to visit poetry readings, an exhibi-tion of art objects in the


Opera “Little Demon”On the anniversary of Alex-ander Zhurbin, one of the most popular contemporary Russian composers Theatre presents the world premiere of his new opera “Little De-mon”. The novel by Fyodor Sologub, who became a key literary event of pre-revolu-tionary Russia, many years attracted Zhurbina his eter-nal theme, dramatic con-trasts and satirical force.

In this work, which is a jour-nalistic honesty about the life of the inhabitants of a small provincial town, the composer reveals the mul-ti-layered content clearly and vividly tells about the actual problems of man and society.

Director-producer - Hon-ored Artist of Russia Georgy Isahakyan.Music Director - People’s Artist of Russia Vladimir Agronsky.Art Director - Stepan Zohrabyan.Costume - Natalia Voinov.

On the 19th,20th and 21st of JuneStart: 7pmTickets:200 -1500 RUB

Pokrovsky Chamber Music Theatre17, Nikolskaya Str., bld. 1m. Revolution Squarewww.opera-pokrovsky.ru

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Top24 cities for travel from Mos-cowThe Summer will sonly get to it’s end, find a large list of cities where you can go for the weekend from Moscow.

Travel.ru has made a rating of cities easy accessible from Moscow, which hide a little pieces of the His-tory of Russia, the cities a ranked by the cost of travel for the weekend. It includes 24 cities, popular for trips on weekends and holidays from Moscow.

In the calculation of the leisure budget for two in-cludes:- One Night stay in a hotel, within 5 kilometres from the centre of the city (accord-ing to the website of online booking Oktogo.ru);- Dinner with wine for two in a restaurant;- Visiting one famous muse-um- two tickets.

1.First place in the ranking of the most cost-effective cities for travel took Sevastopol. This summer, the city-hero become an attractive place for tourists from all over the country, because its beach-es are no less beautiful than on the southern coast of Crimea, and their workload is less. The budget for the trip to the holiday weekend will be 2025 rubles, consid-ering a visit to the Maritime Aquarium-Museum.

2.The second place - Samara budget 2060 rubles. The an-cient city at the confluence of the Volga , Samara offers tours to tourist camps and sanatoriums. A trip to the history of present Samara Regional History Museum by the name of PV Alabina.

3.Third place in the ranking Rostov-on-Don (budget 2130 rubles). Rostov re-gional museum of local lore invites tourists to get ac-quainted with the rich his-tory of the region by organ-izing numerous exhibitions and excursions. Every year more than 200 thousand visitors acquainted with the exposition of this southern city.

4.The fourth in the ranking of cities for a trip to the holiday weekend became Kalinin-grad. The budget of 2 160 rubles per day allows you to enjoy the beauty of the city and the Kaliningrad Region-al History and Art Museum will open its doors to the knowledge of cultural and historical part of the prov-ince.


5.Fifth place ranking takes Kazan (budget 2400 rubles). One of the fastest growing cities in Russia pleases tour-ists by dozens of interesting sights. National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan - one of the oldest in Russia, and Kazan Kremlin visited almost all the guests of the city.

6.Sixth place is Saratov - a picturesque city on the banks of the Volga. The budget for the trip here will be 2430 rubles for two. And get to know all facets of Saratov Regional Museum of Local History will allow, is the oldest in the region - it dates back to 1886.

7.On the seventh line - Ekater-inburg (budget 2440 rubles). Ural capital abounds with architectural monuments of the XIX-XX centuries, and wonderful views of the churches and old houses are opened to the city’s wa-terfront. You can also draw inspiration from the Sverd-lovsk regional museum opened in 1871.

8.The eighth line rated is Voro-nezh, budget - 2460 rubles. Voronezh Regional Museum was opened in September 1894. Since then he pleas-es its visitors with wonderful exhibitions and expositions, which reflect colour and grandeur of the Voronezh land.

9.Ninth position is Irkutsk (budget 2560 rubles) - the capital of Eastern Siberia and the city museum, the romantic face of antiquity. The town appeared on the map of the Russian Empire a few centuries ago, but it has got a rich history of cul-ture, which can be found by visiting the Irkutsk Regional Art Museum by the name of V.P.Sukachёva.


10.Tenth place is shared by Novgorod and Vologda, since the budget for travel in the same - 2640 rubles.

Novgorod the Great - a pop-ular tourist destination city museum and the centre of archaeological excavations. Its main attraction - the Novgorod Kremlin - it is a museum, a park, and the main pedestrian route con-necting Sofia and shopping parties at different banks of the river Volkhov.

City of Vologda, a history spanning more than eight and a half centuries - the capital of the Russian North. It is a land of temples and monasteries, monuments of architecture and art. Volog-da State Historical-Architec-tural and Art Museum-Re-serve is waiting for a visit of tourists from all over the country.

11.The eleventh place in the ranking Chelyabinsk (budget - 2680 rubles). Here visitors will find numerous attrac-tions and museums: local history, arts and crafts of the Urals, railway engineering, geology and postal services. Chelyabinsk State History Museum - a unique treasure trove of historical, cultural and spiritual heritage of the region. Its funds holds about 300,000 items, including artefacts of national signifi-cance.

12.Krasnoyarsk - the old Si-berian town, lying on the banks of the Yenisei River, occupies 12th place in the ranking. Megacities, a major educational, cultural and in-dustrial centre of the Siberi-an Federal District offers to visit Krasnoyarsk Regional Museum. The budget for the trip here will be 2720 rubles.

13.Thirteenth place ranking in the hero-city Volgograd, the longest village in Russia. Before 1925, the city was called Tsaritsyn, and un-til 1961 - Stalingrad. Every year thousands of tourists come to see the sights, go fishing, see places to visit Battle of Stalingrad and Vol-gograd Regional Museum (budget 2730 rubles).

14.The third area of the city of Russia - Perm, got on the fourteenth line ranking (2790 rubles). The history of the Perm Regional Mu-seum dates back to 1890. Here you can find the most fascinating facts and unique artefacts.


15.Admire the grandeur of the capital of Siberia, visit the geographical centre of the former Russian Empire - Chapel of St. Nicholas, as well as visit the local histo-ry museum - here is a small list for a visit to Novosibirsk, which occupies the fifteenth place ranking (budget 2800 rubles).

16.Sixteenth place ranking in Ufa city (budget 2840 ru-bles). It’s clean, comforta-ble, prosperous town with modern complexes station and the airport, sparkling glass skyscrapers, grown on the embankment of the river Belaya, beautiful green parks, ancient Muslim and Orthodox churches. We rec-ommend visiting the Nation-al Museum of Bashkorto-stan.

17.The city of Sochi is on the seventeenth place ranking with a budget of 3,000 ru-bles. In addition to beautiful beaches and diverse, inter-esting to visit the Museum of Sports Glory of Sochi, which contains more than three hundred exhibits represent-ing the achievements of fa-mous athletes and coaches Sochi residents, some of whom are Olympic champi-ons and medallists.

18.Yaroslavl is located on the eighteenth place ranking (budget 3060 rubles). This major regional centre on the banks of the Volga River is among the ten most popular tourist cities in Russia. It is often visited as part of tours to the Golden Ring. The at-tention of tourists is pro-posed Museum of the City of Yaroslavl.

19.19-th line in the city of Nizh-ny Novgorod. For tourists, there are a lot of interesting things: from the Kremlin, which has stone steps down the mountains Dyatlov, and ending with the cable car cabins that float over the riv-er. The budget for the trip is 3 140 rubles.

20.Khabarovsk - quite a young city, so that the historical at-tractions are not so much. Old buildings - churches: the church of St. Innocent of Irkutsk was built back in 1870. Also of interest are the merchants’ mansions, profitable and trading hous-es abroad XIX and XX cen-turies, but more on that will tell visitors the history of the Museum of the city of Khabarovsk (budget 3160 rubles).


21.Crimean resort of Yalta is on the 21 th place with a budget of 3,306 rubles. The most popular resort penin-sula of Crimea, the centre of the so-called Big Yalta, stretching along the Black Sea coast, 72 kilometres from the village of Foros to Krasnokamenka always glad to visitors. Massandra Palace June 1992 exists as a museum. On the first and second floors of the palace interiors exposition of the XIX century, created on the basis of funds Alupka Pal-ace Museum. Rooms on the third floor occupied by the stationary exhibition.

22.22th line of the rating be-longs to Kostroma - one of the oldest cities in Russia, the home of the Snow Maid-en and cradle of the Ro-manov dynasty. Kostroma forests wandered, confusing Polish invaders, the legend-ary Ivan Susanin. It is worth visiting the Kostroma State Historical and Architectur-al Museum-Reserve. The budget for the trip to Kostro-ma is 3 800 rubles.

23.At the 23rd place ranking cit-ies in Russia for a trip to the holiday weekend June 12th is St. Petersburg. Budget to visit the northern capital will be 4510 rubles. It is no secret that St. Petersburg is rich in museums and plac-es of interest, history that never ceases to amaze and inspire. Russian Museum opened its doors to visitors in 1898. This is a unique re-pository of artistic treasures certainly worth a visit.


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Infographic about Yoga: Sources : graphic by Nicole Niemiec (Indian journal of Sience.2012 ; Journal of Pharmacology. 2013 ; Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2014 ; British Medical Journal. 1985 ; Clinical

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