5 Off-the-Beaten Path Soviet Sites in Moscow
If you’re traveling in search of the lost Soviet past, Moscow is the blockbuster city to put on your list. Once the capital of the vast Soviet empire, this modern city still boasts a number of evocative sites.However, if you imagine that today’s Moscow still has the look and feel of yesterday’s communist capital, well, you’re in for quite the surprise. Moscow has largely shed its dour and gray image and is today, a lively, international city of bright lights, street cafes and fine dining. So, where can you go to find those old Soviet-era ghosts still lurking amid all this capitalist, freewheeling buzz?
In this article, we’ll go beyond the obvious sites like the Kremlin and the Lenin Mausoleum and highlight a few, out of the way places that still capture something of that lost Soviet world.