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Moskva, formerly Slava, [b] was a guided missile cruiser of the Russian Navy. Commissioned in 1983, she was the lead ship of the Project 1164 Atlant class, named after the city of Moscow. With a crew of 510, Moskva was the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet and the most powerful warship in the region.
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- R-360 Neptune
R-360 Neptune (Ukrainian: Р-360 «Нептун», romanized: R-360...
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- Close-In Weapons Systems
Kashtan CIWS. A close-in weapon system (CIWS / ˈ s iː w ɪ z...
- Marshal Ustinov
The Russian cruiser Marshal Ustinov (Russian: Маршал...
- Ak-130
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- Vasily Bykov
Vasily Bykov, along with the Slava-class cruiser Moskva,...
- Sinking of the Moskva
The Russian warship Moskva, the flagship of the Russian Navy...
- Moskva (river)
The Moskva [1] (Russian: река Москва, Москва-река,...
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Moscow[a] is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at over 13 million residents within the city limits, [6] over 18.8 million residents in the urban area, [7] and over 21.5 million residents in its metropolitan area. [14]
The Russian warship Moskva, the flagship of the Russian Navy 's Black Sea Fleet, was sunk by Ukrainian forces on 14 April 2022 during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Ukrainian officials announced that their forces had hit and damaged it with two R-360 Neptune anti-ship missiles, and that the ship had then caught fire.
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It is by the Moskva River in the Moscow Oblast, in the European part of Russia. Moscow sits on the center of three parts of Earth's crust. It was once the capital of the Soviet Union (1918-1991), Russian Empire, Tsardom of Russia and the Grand Duchy of Moscow (1480-1703). It is the place of the Moscow Kremlin, one of the World Heritage Sites in the...
Moscow has a large economic infrastructure. It is home to the most billionaires in the world. In 2008 Moscow was named the world's most expensive city for non-Russian workers for the third year in a row. In 2009, however, Moscow went down to third after Tokyo and Osakacame in first and second.
The city is named after the river (old Russian: гра́д Моско́в, which means "the city next to the Moskva River"). The beginning of the name is not known, but some people have a few ideas. One is that the name might be from a very old Finnic language, in which it means "dark" and "cloudy". In 12th century tribes of Vyatichi and Krivichs lived on that...
Metro
Moscow metrois one of the largest and the beautiful ones in the World. It was opened for passengers in 1935.
Trams
The first electric tram began operating in 1899.
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The Moscow trolley system was the largest in the World before ending of 2010s. In 2020 it was closed.
The Moskva [1] (Russian: река Москва, Москва-река, Moskva-reka) is a river that flows through western Russia. It rises about 140 km (90 mi) west of Moscow and flows roughly east through the Smolensk and Moscow Oblasts, passing through central Moscow.
Ancient history. The story has to do with how Moscow’s name has changed over time. Originally, Russians (or rather their Slavic ancestors who later separated into Russians, Ukrainians and...
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Moscow Oblast (Russian: Московская область, romanized: Moskovskaya oblast, IPA: [mɐˈskofskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ], informally known as Подмосковье, Podmoskovye, IPA: [pədmɐˈskovʲjə]) [11] is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast).
