Moscow sky to burst into colour with chrysanthemums and peonies on City Day

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Fireworks will be let off near embankments, on squares and in city parks starting as of 9 pm on 9 September.

The colourful displays marking Moscow’s 870th anniversary, will begin on 9 September at 9 pm, the most convenient time for the viewers who won’t have to rush back home at the end of the show. There will be 13 fireworks venues on city squares, near embankments and in parks.

At 9 pm sharp, peonies, chrysanthemums, serpent- and heart-shaped and glittering figures and other colourful decorations will light up the sky. In all, 13,260 salvos will be fired. The sky above Raushskaya Embankment, Park Pobedy and Brateyevsky Park will become bright with the number 870.

Firework display venues:

Central Administrative Area, Raushskaya Embankment (also from a barge)

Central Administrative Area, Luzhnetskaya Embankment (also from a  barge)

Southwestern Administrative Area, Yuzhnoye Butovo District, waste ground on Kadyrov Street

Western Administrative Area, Park Pobedy on Poklonnaya Gora

Northwestern Administrative Area, 5 Roslovka Street (the park behind the Akvamarin fitness and health centre)

Northern Administrative Area, Levoberezhny District, Park Druzhby (Friendship Park)

Northeastern Administrative Area, Lianozovo District, 38 Novgorodskaya Street, the bank of the pond

Eastern Administrative Area, Izmailovo District, Bauman village

Southeastern Administrative Area, Kuzminki Park, 3 Zarechye Street

Southern Administrative Area, the Moskva River Embankment, Brateyevsky Park, 25 Borisovskiye Prudy Street

Southern Administrative Area, Tsaritsyno District, Sadovo-Krestyanskaya Street

Zelenograd Administrative Area, 4/2 Ozyornaya Alley

Troitsky and Novomoskovsky administrative areas, Moskovsky settlement, sports town.

In addition to the firework displays three-metre high illuminated walls depicting the number 870 will be installed. They will light up simultaneously with the salute on a barge moored on the Moskva River opposite the Luzhniki Olympic Complex (Central Administrative Area) and also at 13 concert venues. The observation sites are:

Muzeon Arts Park (Central Administrative Area, 2 Krymsky Val Street)

Triumfalnaya Square (Central Administrative Area)

Patriarshye Ponds (Central Administrative Area)

Yekaterininsky Park (Central Administrative Area, 27 Bolshaya Yekaterininskaya Street)

New Olympic Village park (Western Administrative Area, 12 Lobachevskogo Street)

Northern River Terminal park (Northern Administrative Area)

Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve (Southern Administrative Area, 1 Dolskaya Street)

Cosmonauts Alley (Northeastern Administrative Area)

Troparyovo recreation area (Southwestern Administrative Area, 12 Akademika Vinogradova Street)

Stroginskaya Poyma, Moskvoretsky Nature and History Park (Northwestern Administrative Area, opposite House 33/3 Isakovskogo Street)

Moskva River Embankment, Pechatniki Park (Southeastern Administrative Area, 4 Kukhmisterova Street behind Tula Cinema)

Central square in Zelenograd (Zelenograd Administrative Area)

Shcherbinka municipality (Troitsky and Novomoskovsky administrative areas).

Between 1-10 September, Moscow will host a festival marking the city’s 870th anniversary. About 40 festive venues will be open citywide where concerts, performances, educational quizzes, masterclasses and interactive games will be held. The main venues will be on Tverskaya and Arbat streets and Manezhnaya, Tverskaya and Revolution squares.

Source: mos.ru