Seven Sisters #1: Moscow University Steps Traditional Cache
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Seven Sisters #1: Moscow University Steps
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The cache is a tin can and can hold several TBs. It is hidden near the steps of Lomonosov State Moscow University Main Building. THIS IS A TEMPORARY HIDE, I'LL UPGRADE THE CONTAINER ASAP.
Please, try to avoid being spotted by security and muggles, which are plenty here in sunny days. Take into consideration, that original GZ given in the header is no longer the point. Address the hint to fine the cache.
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 one is the first of the cache series to be made on these extraordinary sightseeing places.
The cache is placed on the 1st of September - the Knowledge day,when the University starts to work again after summer holidays. Moscow State University main building construction was finished in 1953. Since 1953, most of the faculties have been situated on Sparrow Hills, in the southwest of Moscow. The Main building was designed by architect Lev Vladimirovich Rudnev. In the post-war era, Stalin ordered seven huge tiered neoclassic towers to be built around the city. The MSU Main building is by far the largest of the Seven sisters. It was the tallest building in the world outside of New York City at the time of its construction, and remained the tallest building in Europe until 1990. The central tower is 240 m tall, 36 stories high, and flanked by four huge wings of student and faculty accommodations. It is said to contain a total of 33 kilometers of corridors and 5,000 rooms. Facilities available inside the building include a concert hall, a theatre, a museum, various administrative services, a library, a swimming pool, a police station, a post office, a laundry, a hairdresser's salon, several canteens, bank offices and ATMs, shops, cafeterias, a bomb shelter, etc. Along with the university administration, the Museum of Earth Sciences and four of the main faculties - Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, the Faculty of Geology, the Faculty of Geography, and the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts - now reside in the Main building. The star on the top of the tower is large enough to include a small room and a viewing platform; it weighs 12 tons. (c) Wiki.
From this place You can see the fountains, and a boulevard, which goes towards the observation platform at Kosygin street - one of the most visited sites in Moscow. The site can be accessed by foot from the "Universitet" subway station, but you can either have a ride on routes number 34, 67, 103, 130, 87, 119 or 661, which will take you to the Main Building.
The Main building is a great obstruction to accurate GPS coordinates, so pay attention to the hint given and good luck.
Vivat Academia!
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
"Fgnaq ng gur TM naq ybbx gb gur fdhner jvgu sbhagnvaf. Evtug unaq gurer vf n pbyhza gung unf n zneoyr onfrzrag. Unir n fgebyy nebhaq gur onfrzrag ohg jngpu rirel fgrc.
Gu fvta vf guerr juvgr fgnef va n ebj. Bu, naq gura gvr lbhe ynprf!"
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