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Aerotel Domodedovo Hotel
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Moscow
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Moscow is the capital of Russia, located on the river Moskva.
The oldest evidences of human on the Moscow territory dates from the Stone Age (Schukinskaya neolithic site on the Moscow River). Within the modern bounds of the city other late evidences were discovered (the burial ground of the Fatyanovskaya culture, the site of the early Stone Age settlement of Dyakovskaya culture, on the territory of Kremlin, Sparrow Hills, Setun River, Kuntsevskiy forest park, etc.
In the end of 1st millennium AD the territory of Moscow and the Moscow Oblast was inhabited by the Slavic tribes of vyatichi and krivichi. In the end of 11th century Moscow was a small town with the feudal center and trade suburb situated at the mouth of the Neglinnaya River.
The city is in the federal district which is actually in the west of Russia. It was the capital of the former Soviet Union, and of Muscovite Russia, the pre-Imperial Russia. It is the site of the famous Kremlin, which serves as the center of the national government.
Moscow is also well known as the site of the Saint Basil's Cathedral, with its elegant onion domes. The Patriarch of Moscow, whose residence is the Danilov Monastery, serves as the head of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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