Moscow! Monday 27th of December 2010

My long excursion starts its trail in Moscow, the capital of this great country. Though I regret that I shall not be able to visit this amazing city during this trip, at least, maybe it'll be for another occasion!
I will be stopping in the following cities:

• Moscow
• Nizhniy Novgorod
• Yekaterinburg 
• Omsk
• Novosibirsk 
• Krasnoyarsk
• Irkutsk
• Vladivostok

Yekaterinburg and Krasnoyarsk are the two cities I will be stopping at.

Here are some notes I took on Moscow 

Climate:

Moscow has a humid continental climate with warm, humid summers and long, cold winters. Typical high temperatures in the warm months of June, July and August are around 23 °C. In the winter, temperatures normally drop to approximately −10 °C, though there can be periods of warmth with temperatures rising above 0 °C.

Population:

Moscow is not only the capital but also the most populous city federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and also the world. Its population is estimated of a population of 10,5 million.

Since I was not able to stop in Moscow, instead I found some photos and a video for you to still have the chance to explore Moscow and it's wonders.

Culture:

• One of the most famous art museums in Moscow is the Tretyakov Gallery, founded by Pavel Tretyakov, a wealthy patron of the arts who donated a large private collection to the city. The Tretyakov Gallery is split into two buildings: the Old Tretyakov gallery, the original gallery in the Tretyakovskaya area on the south bank of the Moskva River, houses the works of the classic Russian tradition. The works of famous pre-Revolutionary painters, as well as the works of early Russian icon painters can be found in the Old Tretyakov Gallery. The New Tretyakov gallery, created in Soviet times, mainly contains the works of Soviet artists, as well as of a few contemporary artists overlapped with the Old Tretyakov Gallery for early 20th century art.
• Another art museum in the city of Moscow is the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts,founded by Marina Tsvetaeva's father. It hosts famous paintings from every major Western era of art; works by Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, and Pablo Picasso.
• Moscow is also the heart of Russian performing arts, including ballet and film. There are ninety-three theatres, 132 cinemas and twenty-four concert-halls in Moscow. Among Moscow’s many theatres and ballet studios is the Bolshoi Theatre and the Malyi Theatre as well as Vakhtangov Theatre and Moscow Art Theatre.

Economy:  The primary economic products are chemical, metallurgy,textile, furniture,energy production, software development and machinery.