Seven Sisters #3: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Traditional Cache
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Seven Sisters #3: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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Just a funny micro near the government downtown in Moscow.
The cache is magnetic and has a pencil and a logbook inside
Please, watch out for muggles!
Will bring you to a beautiful portico on the bridge over
Moskva-river just several feet from the cache.
Use the hint - it's a little bit poetic, but my imagination was
affected by Greek Classical style of this place.
The "Seven Sisters" is the English name given to a group of Moscow
skyscrapers designed in the Stalinist style. Muscovites call them
Vysotki or Stalinskie Vysotki "Stalin's high-rises". They were
built from 1947 to 1953, in an elaborate combination of Russian
Baroque and Gothic styles, and the technology used in building
American skyscrapers.
The seven are: Hotel Ukraina, Kotelnicheskaya Embankment
Apartments, the Kudrinskaya Square Building, the Hotel
Leningradskaya, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the main building
of the Moscow State University, and the Red Gates Administrative
Building.
This cache is devoted to the third talles Highrise: Building of the
Ministry of foreign affairs - almost 173 m high and one of the most
well-known administrative buildings in Europe.
There are many legends about underground facilities and
bomb-shelters under the skyscraper including info about Subway-2 -
the secret government underground transit system built in Stalin's
time.
The bridge you stand on has a wonderful sights in all directions -
the Ministry, building, the Houses of Parliament, and the Moscow
Universtiy Building far to the South-East. I'd visit this place at
night to see the lights of Moscow.
It was rather risky to place a cache right next to the guarded
administrative building of federal importance, so I placed it on
the bridge
Enjoy!
Additional Hints
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Gehr tybel vf pbasvarq ol bar arkg gb N'pureba'f qnexarff-yrnqvat cngujnl...