Places of interest surrounding the hotel include the impressive Dinamo Sports Stadium, home to Russia's oldest football club, which was founded in 1887 and whose history you can explore in the Dinamo Musuem, situated in front of the north stand. Also in the vicinity is the beautiful Petrovsky Palace, built in the early 19th Century at the command of Catherine the Great as an Imperial resting place on the road to St. Petersburg. The building's stunning red brick and white masonry facade provided a fashionable backdrop, against which the 19th Century Muscovite social elite paraded their new carriages and took long decadent picnics on the grass. In 1923 the Zhukovsky Air Academy moved into the palace and has remained there ever since, training such famous names as the first man in space, cosmonaut Yury Gagarin. Within walking distance or the hotel visitors can find the Belorus Railway Station and the start of Tverskaya Street, one of Moscow's main commercial arteries.
Sightseeing
Historical Hotel Sovietsky
Major attractions | |
Moscow Kremlin | |
| Distance: | 5.3 kilometers |
| Taxi: | 30 minutes Show driving route |
| Public transport: | It will take just over 30 minutes to reach the Kremlin by metro. Walk to Belorusskaya Metro Station. From there, take the dark green Zamoskvoretskaya line and travel three stops to Teatralnaya. Change here to the red line, and travel one more stop east to Biblioteka im. Lenina, about 100 meters from the Kremlin entrance. Show transit route |
Red Square | |
| Distance: | 4.5 kilometers |
| Taxi: | 20 minutes Show driving route |
| Public transport: | It takes around 30 minutes to get to Red Square from the Historical Hotel Sovietsky by public transport. First head to Belorusskaya Metro Station, just over ten minutes' walk from the hotel, and then take the dark-green metro line and travel south three stops to Teatralnaya. Exit the metro via the interchange station Ploshchad Revolyutsii and turn left. The Resurrection Gate, which leads onto Red Square, is about 50 meters from the metro. Show transit route |
Bolshoi Theatre | |
| Distance: | 4.5 kilometers |
| Taxi: | 20 minutes Show driving route |
| Public transport: | The trip to the Bolshoi Theatre will take about 30 minutes. Walk southeast down Leningradsky Prospekt to Belorusskaya Metro Station (about ten minutes' walk). From there, take the dark green Zamoskvoretskaya line and travel three stops south to Teatralnaya. The theater is right across the square from the exit to the metro. Show transit route |
