Getting Around

Getting Around
The heart of Moscow, the capital of Russia, is the Kremlin where everything started centuries ago. Heading out from the Kremlin, the city has expanded in a series of circles; the Boulevard Ring, the Garden Ring and the Moscow Automobile Ring Road (MKAD) which acts as a rough boundary around Moscow. Keeping the city layout in mind, helps you to get orientated. With over 12 million people calling Moscow home, its important not to underestimate travel times or distances. The public transportation consists of an extremely efficient and fantastically ornate metro concentrated in the city centre, a spider's web of trains running to all corners of the country and local buses, trolleybuses and a few marshrutkas (fixed route mini-vans.) International connections are good and getting better with three airports and a growing number of foreign airlines are adding Moscow to their flight plans.