På gång i Moscow, Russia under året

Lugnt — resenärer beskriver det som lugnt, New Year holidays

• Festival

  Epiphany ice bathing

  18–19 janReligiös högtid

  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. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Outdoor skating rinks open (25 nov – 10 mar (vanligtvis)), New Year holidays (31 dec – 8 jan)

Lugnt — skollov i 3 av marknaderna som fyller platsen, en av dess sämsta vädermånader

• 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. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Outdoor skating rinks open (25 nov – 10 mar (vanligtvis))

Mellansäsong — skollov i 4 av marknaderna som fyller platsen, en helt vanlig månad

• Säsong

  The thaw

  10 mar – 25 apr · vanligtvisStängt mellan säsongerna

  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. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Maslenitsa (16–22 feb), Outdoor skating rinks open (25 nov – 10 mar (vanligtvis))

Mellansäsong — skollov i 6 av marknaderna som fyller platsen, en helt vanlig månad

Inget nytt börjar i april.

Pågår fortfarande: The thaw (10 mar – 25 apr (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — Victory Day, skollov i 4 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

• Säsong

  Dacha season

  1 maj – 31 augSkollov

  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. Källa ↗

• Helg

  Victory Day

  4–9 majStor festivalStängningarTrångt

  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. Källa ↗

• Risk

  Poplar fluff

  25 maj – 25 jun · vanligtvisPollensäsong

  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. Källa ↗

Mycket folk — Russia Day, skollov i 4 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

• Helg

  Russia Day

  12 junNationell helgdagStängningar

  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. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Dacha season (1 maj – 31 aug), Poplar fluff (25 maj – 25 jun (vanligtvis))

Lugnt — resenärer beskriver det som lugnt, skollov i 7 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

Inget nytt börjar i juli.

Pågår fortfarande: Dacha season (1 maj – 31 aug)

Mycket folk — skollov i 7 av marknaderna som fyller platsen, en av dess bästa vädermånader

Inget nytt börjar i augusti.

Pågår fortfarande: Dacha season (1 maj – 31 aug)

Mest folk — City Day, Moscow Marathon

• Festival

  City Day

  1–10 sep · vanligtvisStor festivalTrångt

  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. Källa ↗

• Festival

  Moscow Marathon

  26–27 sepSportevenemangStängningarTrångt

  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. Källa ↗

Mellansäsong — skollov i 4 av marknaderna som fyller platsen, en helt vanlig månad

Inget nytt börjar i oktober.

Mellansäsong — skollov i 2 av marknaderna som fyller platsen, en helt vanlig månad

• Öppning

  Outdoor skating rinks open

  25 nov – 10 mar · vanligtvisIssäsong

  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. Källa ↗

Mycket folk — New Year holidays, skollov i 7 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

• Helg

  New Year holidays

  31 dec – 8 janJul & nyårStängningarTrångt

  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. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Outdoor skating rinks open (25 nov – 10 mar (vanligtvis))