Hva som skjer i Moscow, Russia gjennom året

Rolig — reisende beskriver det som rolig, New Year holidays

• Festival

  Epiphany ice bathing

  18.–19. janReligiøs høytid

  On the night of 18 January crosses are cut into the ice on the ponds and the river and queues form to go under three times. The city sets up heated tents and an ambulance at each site. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Outdoor skating rinks open (25. nov – 10. mar (vanligvis)), New Year holidays (31. des – 8. jan)

Rolig — skoleferie i 3 av markedene som fyller stedet, en av de dårligste månedene værmessig

• Festival

  Maslenitsa

  16.–22. febKarneval

  Pancake week before Lent, with street kitchens in the parks and a straw effigy burned on the Sunday. It is the one week of winter the city deliberately spends outdoors. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Outdoor skating rinks open (25. nov – 10. mar (vanligvis))

Skuldersesong — skoleferie i 4 av markedene som fyller stedet, en helt vanlig måned

• Sesong

  The thaw

  10. mar – 25. apr · vanligvisStengt utenfor sesong

  Six weeks of grey slush, when the snow goes dirty, the pavements are ankle-deep by midday and frozen again by evening. The parks are unusable and the city looks its worst; the rates say so too. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Maslenitsa (16.–22. feb), Outdoor skating rinks open (25. nov – 10. mar (vanligvis))

Skuldersesong — skoleferie i 6 av markedene som fyller stedet, en helt vanlig måned

Ingenting nytt starter i april.

Fortsatt på gang: The thaw (10. mar – 25. apr (vanligvis))

Travelt — Victory Day, skoleferie i 4 av markedene som fyller stedet

• Sesong

  Dacha season

  1. mai – 31. augSkoleferie

  From May anyone with a plot outside town is on it at weekends. The Friday traffic out of the city is the worst of the week and the centre is unusually calm until Sunday night. Kilde ↗

• Helligdag

  Victory Day

  4.–9. maiStor festivalStengningerMye folk

  The parade on 9 May shuts the centre, and the night rehearsals in the week before it close Tverskaya and the inner ring. Central metro stations are closed on the day at short notice. Kilde ↗

• Fare

  Poplar fluff

  25. mai – 25. jun · vanligvisPollensesong

  For two or three weeks the city fills with white seed fluff off the poplars planted after the war: drifts of it in the gutters, in your eyes, and a fortnight of misery for anyone with hay fever. Kilde ↗

Travelt — Russia Day, skoleferie i 4 av markedene som fyller stedet

• Helligdag

  Russia Day

  12. junNasjonaldagStengninger

  A public holiday on 12 June with concerts in the centre and a fireworks finish, and the start of the summer pattern where the city empties towards the dachas for any long weekend. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Dacha season (1. mai – 31. aug), Poplar fluff (25. mai – 25. jun (vanligvis))

Rolig — reisende beskriver det som rolig, skoleferie i 7 av markedene som fyller stedet

Ingenting nytt starter i juli.

Fortsatt på gang: Dacha season (1. mai – 31. aug)

Travelt — skoleferie i 7 av markedene som fyller stedet, en av de beste månedene værmessig

Ingenting nytt starter i august.

Fortsatt på gang: Dacha season (1. mai – 31. aug)

Toppsesong — City Day, Moscow Marathon

• Festival

  City Day

  1.–10. sep · vanligvisStor festivalMye folk

  Moscow's birthday, marked on the first weekend of September with concerts and street closures across the centre and fireworks from a dozen points at once. Kilde ↗

• Festival

  Moscow Marathon

  26.–27. sepSportsarrangementStengningerMye folk

  A September Sunday with the course along the embankments and past Luzhniki, which shuts the river roads through the centre for the morning. Tens of thousands start it. Kilde ↗

Skuldersesong — skoleferie i 4 av markedene som fyller stedet, en helt vanlig måned

Ingenting nytt starter i oktober.

Skuldersesong — skoleferie i 2 av markedene som fyller stedet, en helt vanlig måned

• Åpning

  Outdoor skating rinks open

  25. nov – 10. mar · vanligvisIssesong

  Gorky Park, VDNKh and Red Square freeze their rinks from late November and keep them going until the thaw. It is the main reason to be outdoors in the coldest months. Kilde ↗

Travelt — New Year holidays, skoleferie i 7 av markedene som fyller stedet

• Helligdag

  New Year holidays

  31. des – 8. janJul og nyttårStengningerMye folk

  The country stops for the first eight days of January. Offices, most services and a good share of restaurants close, and the lit squares and the skating rinks are what is left running. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Outdoor skating rinks open (25. nov – 10. mar (vanligvis))