Translation. Region: Russian Federation –
Source: Moscow Government – Moscow Government –
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The Moscow government has decided to grant the status of Wedding Palace to the Zelenograd, Tagansky, and Mitino Civil Registry Offices. The corresponding order was signed Sergei Sobyanin.
In recent years, the city has been implementing a program to renovate traditional wedding palaces and create new opportunities for holding wedding ceremonies.
In 2021, major renovations were completed at the Lyublino Civil Registry Office (14 Tekstilshchikov Street, 8th) and Wedding Palace No. 4 (17 Butyrskaya Street), which was the largest in Moscow at the time.
In 2022–2023, renovations were completed at the Kutuzovsky and Shipilovsky Civil Registry Offices, updating the interior design for wedding ceremonies. Upon completion, both buildings became wedding palaces. In the winter of 2022, construction of the Wedding Palace in Yuzhnoye Butovo (19a Brusilova Street) was completed.
In 2024, the Zelenograd Civil Registry Office (Zelenograd, Building 240) opened after a comprehensive renovation, and in 2025, the renovated Tagansky (Taganskaya Street, Building 44) and the new Mitino Civil Registry Office (Dubravnaya Street, Building 48a) opened their doors. They are now officially among Moscow's wedding palaces.
In addition, since 2019, in response to requests from newlyweds, more than 30 unusual venues have opened for the project's wedding registration. New Addresses of Happiness — museums, estates, hotels and even stadiums.
In particular, three new venues for off-site marriage registrations opened in 2025: at the Moskino Cinema Park, the Yauza Space, and the A.P. Bogolyubov Arts Library. For the first time, ceremonies were held on horseback, against a backdrop of blooming cherry blossoms, as well as in Catherine Park and at the "Summer in Moscow" venues on Manezhnaya, Tverskaya, and Bolotnaya Squares, and Tverskoy and Strastnoy Boulevards.
Marriage registration in informal settings was concentrated in the My Documents government service centers.
Today, Moscow has approximately 200 wedding venues: 11 wedding palaces, more than 30 off-site registration sites, and 135 government service centers.
Over the course of 11 months, 86,819 marriage registrations were made (in 2024 – 84,166), about 65 percent of which were conducted in a formal setting.
For their wedding ceremony, approximately 75 percent of newlyweds choose wedding palaces, and about 25 percent choose one of the “new addresses of happiness.”
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