Although the Volga Apart Hotel is just outside the main tourist are of central Moscow, there are a few landmark buildings and other attractions a short walk from the hotel. Not least of these are the three very different railway stations on Komsomolskaya Ploshchad. The oldest, Leningrad Station, is an austere late neoclassical building by the famous Moscow classicist architect Konstantin Thon, while the Yarsolavl and Kazan Stations are both superior examples of Russian Revival architecture, with colorful references to Russian folklore and medieval architectural styles.
On your way to Sukharevskaya Metro Station, you will walk past the gates of the Sklifosovskiy Medical Institute, housed in a magnificent neoclassical building on the Garden Ring. Built at the turn of the 19th century by Count Nikolay Sheremetev as a hospice and almshouse, it was one of the first hospitals for the poor in Russia. It is now part of Russia's largest provider of emergency medical treatment and the main A & E hospital in Moscow.
Opposit Sukharevskaya Metro Station is the Church of the Trinity, built in the late 17th-century as the regimental church for a regiment of streltsy guardsmen. Further south along Ulitsa Sretenka is the Church of the Assumption in Pechatniki, a typical example of the Moscow style known as Naryshkin Baroque.
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| Distance: | 3 km |
| Taxi: | It is a 15-minute drive to the Kremlin from the Volga Apart Hotel. Show driving route |
| Public transport: | Allow just over 20 minutes to reach the Kremlin by public transport. From Sukharevskaya Metro Station, 750 meters from the hotel, travel south on the orange line one stop to Turgenenvskaya. Transfer to the red line and continue south three stops to Biblioteka im. Lenina. Exit the metro and you will find yourself directly opposite the Kremlin's main visitor entrance. Show transit route |
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| Distance: | 2.5 km |
| Taxi: | Allow 10-15 minutes if traveling by taxi in light traffic. Show driving route |
| Public transport: | It takes around 20 minutes to reach Red Square by metro. Head to Sukharevskaya Metro Station (750 meters from the Volga Apart Hotel) and travel one stop south on the orange line to Turgenevskaya. Change to the red line and continue two stops south to Okhotny Ryad, which is a couple of minutes' walk from Red Square. Show transit route |
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| Distance: | 2 kilometers |
| Taxi: | This trip should take only 10 minutes, but journey can be much longer at evening peak times. Show driving route |
| Public transport: | The trip to the theatre by metro will take around 20 minutes. From Sukharevskaya Metro Station (around 700 meters from the Volga Apart Hotel), take the orange line and travel south one stop to Turgenevskaya. Transfer to the red line and continue south two stops to Okhotny Ryad. Exit the metro via the transfer station Teatralnaya (dark-green line) to emerge on Teatralnaya Ploshchad ("Theatre Square") around two minutes' walk from the Bolshoi. Show transit route |
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