Moscow on Street View

How to recognise the city from a panorama

Moscow reveals itself through very wide avenues, blue-and-yellow road signs and nine-storey panel blocks on the outskirts. House numbers sit on blue plates, and bus stops are glass shelters with advertising.

What the streets look like

Avenues are very wide, six to eight lanes split by a green strip. Stalin-era blocks and towers fill the centre, panel housing takes over further out. Road signs are blue, with yellow borders on temporary sections.

How to tell it from lookalikes

Mixed building heights and no continuous facade line separate it from Saint Petersburg. From regional capitals it differs by the sheer scale of streets and the density of advertising.

Useful details

House numbers sit on blue plates with the street name, and stops are glazed shelters with advertising. Signs repeat in Latin script, which most Russian cities do not do.

Geogessr drops you somewhere random in the world — sometimes in Moscow. Work out where you are and drop a pin on the map.

Country giveaways

A quick check when the panorama looks unfamiliar: these signs are visible almost anywhere in the city.

Country	Russia
Driving side	right-hand
Licence plates	white · region code and flag on the right
Script on signs	Cyrillic
Currency	RUB ₽
Time zone	UTC+3
Domain	.ru

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