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The Kuskovo Estate invites you to the east wing of the "Large Stone Greenhouse" pavilion for two exhibitions. The "Royal Copenhagen" project explores the phenomenon of Danish porcelain from the last quarter of the 18th to the second half of the 20th century. The exhibition "Artist. Teacher. Personality" is dedicated to Galina Antonova, an artist who made a significant contribution to the history of Soviet glassmaking.

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A resident of the Technopolis Moscow special economic zone has begun producing a drug for the treatment of 13 types of cancer. Sergei Sobyanin announced this on his channel. MAX messenger.

"The drug is intended for patients with melanoma, lung cancer, and other dangerous diseases. The medicine's uniqueness lies in its ability to help the human immune system independently recognize and destroy cancer cells," Sergei Sobyanin wrote.

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The drug is included in the Russian Ministry of Health's clinical guidelines and on the list of essential drugs. The medication will be produced under an offset contract with the city.

Moscow hospitals will soon begin receiving it. This modern therapy will become more accessible to Muscovites, and supplies will be stable.

Production is carried out at one of the largest biotech plants in the country. The company has already launched the production of other drugs for leukemia, lymphoma, and rheumatoid arthritis.

The company's status as a resident of a special economic zone provides tax breaks. It invests the savings in new developments, of which there are currently over 100.

Moscow actively supports such projects. The development of the pharmaceutical industry contributes to the implementation of national projects. "A long and active life" AndHealth TechnologiesMore information about Russia's national projects and the capital's contribution can be found atspecial page.

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Repairs to the main dome and bell tower domes of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior are 90 percent complete, and are scheduled for completion in June. The building's reconstruction was described by Sergei Sobyanin.

"We've now begun work on the domes and crosses. We're carrying out meticulous restoration work. It's not really visible from a distance, but there were serious problems there, too. We had to replace about 500 cast bronze decorative elements. Each element weighs about 50 kilograms—between 20 and 70. 500 elements! There are about 40,000 smaller elements. This is a huge undertaking, but I'm confident the crosses on the church will shine with their former beauty by Easter," explained Sergei Sobyanin.

The stylobate, facades, and domes of the Christ the Savior Cathedral are being renovated. Major repairs to the cathedral's facades were completed in 2023–2024. The renovation project covered 13,200 square meters. In 2025, repairs to the facades and the dome of the gate bell tower were completed.

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus' thanked Sergei Sobyanin for his work on the restoration and construction of churches.

"Indeed, this is not only the world's only capital, but also the only major city in the world where churches are being built. And not just some random church built somewhere to commemorate some event. This is a program for building churches in the number necessary to meet the spiritual needs of the capital city of our Fatherland," Patriarch Kirill noted.

In 2025–2026, repairs to the main dome and belfry domes will be underway. They are 90 percent complete, with a completion date of June 2026. Additionally, the cathedral's crosses are being restored and refurbished, with gilded decorative elements being dismantled and restored. They have already been installed on the main dome cross and the eastern and southern belfries. Installation of gilded elements on the northern and western belfries is ongoing. The completion date is April 2026.

"Very soon—during the bright Easter days—the builders will remove some of the scaffolding, and the large golden crosses will shine again in all their glory. A little later, in the summer, we will free the domes from the scaffolding," he wrote on his channel.MAX messenger Mayor of Moscow.

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Since 2018, the strength and performance characteristics of the stylobate section of the Christ the Savior Cathedral have been restored under the Targeted Investment Program. Work is being carried out in sections to avoid disrupting public access. The total area of the renovation is 28,000 square meters. The area of replacing the stylobate section is 25,000 square meters.

"We still have significant work ahead to strengthen the foundations and waterproof them, but these are technical works that we will carry out there in the coming years in a relaxed manner so as not to disrupt the church's operations and services," added Sergei Sobyanin.

The design and estimate documentation is currently being adjusted due to the identification of new problem areas. Construction is 95 percent complete. Completion is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2026.

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Program for the construction of Orthodox churches in Moscow

Since 2010, a program for the construction of Orthodox churches has been implemented in the capital.

 

152 churches have already been built and are operational. Major construction work has been completed at four churches. Forty-one churches are at various stages of construction.

Temporary churches are erected at construction sites, and Orthodox parishes are created around them, attracting funds from benefactors.

278 land plots were transferred to the financial and economic department of the Russian Orthodox Church for the construction of church complexes, including 210 within the old city boundaries and 68 in the New Moscow.

Restoration of religious monuments

Since 2011, more than 150 churches have been restored through city programs, including those providing subsidies to religious organizations.

In 2025, work was carried out on 63 cultural heritage sites of religious significance. Restoration of 14 sites was fully completed, including:

— the bell tower in the Kuskovo estate;

— the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in the Sviblovo estate;

— Trinity Church on Karamyshevskaya Embankment;

— the Church of the Assumption in the Cossack settlement;

— towers No. 8 and 9, as well as sections of the eastern and southern walls of the Donskoy Monastery;

— the southern clergy house of the Miusskoe cemetery ensemble;

— the church of the Vagankovskoye cemetery;

— a house at the entrance to the Vagankovskoye Cemetery;

— Church of the Resurrection in Plenitsy;

— Church of the Assumption in Veshnyaki;

— Transfiguration Cathedral of the Novospassky Monastery.

In 2026, the restoration of more than 50 religious monuments will continue within the framework of city programs.

Sobyanin: A pearl of medieval architecture has been restored in Veshnyaki.Sobyanin: The revival of Moscow's antiquity is one of the capital's development trends.

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Sergei Sobyanin I participated in a joint meeting of the supervisory, trustee, and public boards for the publication of the Orthodox Encyclopedia. The board included many heads of Russian regions and the heads of major financial and industrial organizations.

"I am confident that the encyclopedia will truly make a significant contribution to understanding history and preserving and strengthening traditional Russian values. Therefore, I believe that work on the encyclopedia should not end at this stage. I support His Holiness's words that we must continue to develop information portals and research activities as part of the encyclopedia's work," the Moscow Mayor stated, speaking at the meeting.

The encyclopedia devotes considerable attention to the history of the capital's development, and many articles are dedicated to prominent Muscovites.

"Each text was prepared with deep knowledge and love for the subject matter. For this, I want to thank the team of authors and the Moscow specialists who compiled a significant portion of the encyclopedia. We are providing Moscow libraries and schools with these new volumes—the knowledge will be in demand by many generations of city residents and all residents of Russia," he wrote on his channel.

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Moscow is extending its decision to provide a building for encyclopedia work for 10 years. This year, the city is purchasing 12,500 volumes so that every school and library will have encyclopedias, the Moscow Mayor noted in his speech.

Joint projects of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Moscow Government

The following projects will be implemented in 2025:

— XXXIII International Christmas educational readings “80th Anniversary of the Great Victory: Memory and Spiritual Experience of Generations” (more than 12 thousand participants);

— XIV Moscow Festival of Sunday School Choirs;

— a gala concert dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the blessed death of Saint Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow;

— XXIV Moscow Easter Festival by Valery Gergiev, dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War and the 185th anniversary of the birth of P.I. Tchaikovsky;

— a series of events dedicated to the Day of Slavic Literature and Culture, with a concert on Red Square and a flower-laying ceremony at the monument to Saints Cyril and Methodius (the city provided the installation of a stage complex, medical and sanitary support, the production of advertising materials, etc.);

— church and state holiday — Day of the Baptism of Rus in Moscow;

— a Moscow-wide religious procession on the day of the celebration of the Council of Moscow Saints, with the construction of sites near the Cathedral of Christ the Savior and the Novodevichy Convent to ensure a video broadcast of the procession;

Assistance provided:

— in conducting a series of events dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the great consecration of the recreated Cathedral of Christ the Savior;

— activities of the Foundation for Prizes in Memory of Metropolitan Macarius of Moscow and Kolomna (awarding prizes for new scientific works, holding scientific conferences);

— in the maintenance and protection of the historical complex of the Sretensky Monastery;

— in holding the XXI church-public exhibition-forum “Orthodox Rus' — for the Day of National Unity”;

— in holding the XII All-Church Congress on Social Service.

The gate bell tower of the Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow has been renovated.Sergei Sobyanin: Restoration of the facades of the Epiphany Cathedral in Yelokhovo has begun.

Humanitarian aid as part of a special military operation

The Synodal Department for Church Charity and Social Service of the Russian Orthodox Church continues to raise funds to provide assistance to victims of the conflict zone.

The funds are being spent on purchasing and shipping humanitarian supplies to new regions and the Kursk region, providing assistance to refugees in temporary accommodation centers and affected citizens, purchasing necessary equipment, and providing medical care through the Central Clinical Hospital of St. Alexis, Metropolitan of Moscow, of the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church.

 

Volunteers trained by the hospital are sent on a weekly rotation basis to Hospitals No. 1 and 2 in Horlivka, hospitals in Luhansk and Makeyevka, and Central City Hospital No. 14 in Donetsk to care for the sick and wounded.

More than 500 volunteers are helping care for the sick and wounded in eight hospitals in Moscow and the Moscow region.

At St. Alexis Hospital (including its branch in Zhukovsky, Moscow Region), patients from regions where military operations are taking place receive the necessary inpatient treatment.

Priests regularly travel to combat zones and hospitals to provide spiritual care to military personnel.

Volunteer repair workers travel weekly from Moscow to Mariupol in shifts to repair private homes of city residents in need.

Parishioners of the Moscow Diocese are collecting items, medicines, and funds for equipment, including military and medical equipment. They are also weaving camouflage nets, making trench candles and commemorative cards, and donating blood, which is then sent to hospitals in the DPR and LPR.

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Tushino Gallery invites you to the exhibitions "The Century of Theatre" and "The Gemstone Worlds of Tamara Vnuchkova."

The "Century of Theatre" exhibition is dedicated to World Theatre Day and the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Moscow Academic Art School's theatre department. Visitors will see classics of the world theatre repertoire as interpreted by graduates. The exhibition is based on diploma theses from the school's teaching and methodological collection from the 1950s to 2025. These examples illustrate how the language of the stage has changed and how the training of theatre artists at the school has been transformed.

The school's collections are of significant interest to theater scholars. They house the student and diploma works of such theater artists as Viktor Balash, Stanislav Bakhvalov, Nikolai Dosekin, Valentin Topuridze, and Yuri Ustinov.

The exhibition "Gemstone Worlds of Tamara Vnuchkova," dedicated to Geologist Day, features mosaic paintings made from natural gemstones. The works, created using a signature technique, are distinguished by their unique style and create a kaleidoscopic effect. They combine an artistic vision with a geologist's deep knowledge of mineral properties.

In her works, Tamara Vnuchkova uses gemstones collected from various deposits around the world. She began her career as a geologist while still a student, working on the renowned Soviet expedition "Sredazkvartssamotsvety." The artist collected minerals in mountains across the country and sketched rock outcrops. Since the early 1990s, Tamara Vnuchkova has mastered stonework techniques to realize her dream of creating mosaic paintings from gemstones.

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Capital specialists urban economy complex The fountains in the Aquarium Garden have been cleaned after the winter. This was announced by the Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Housing, Utilities, and Urban Development. Petr Biryukov.

"The city is currently undergoing extensive cleaning of its engineering structures after the fall and winter. By the end of April, we'll have cleaned over two thousand structures—bridges, tunnels, underground and overground pedestrian crossings, embankments, piers, fountains, and monuments. Today, we cleaned the fountains in the Aquarium Garden, located on Bolshaya Sadovaya Street and a favorite recreation spot for Muscovites and visitors," said Pyotr Biryukov.

The work was carried out by a utility crew. Specialists used a street cleaner. A special solution was applied to the fountain surfaces, which was then washed away with high-pressure cleaners. City services staff thoroughly cleaned the sculptures, colonnade, parapets, and fountain bowls.

In 2024, the Aquarium Garden was improved. The sidewalks were renovated, three fountains were repaired, flower beds and a new lawn were planted, and comfortable benches and lanterns in a historical style were installed.

Retro-style video screens and lanterns: what the Aquarium garden will look like after improvementsFountains in the Aquarium Garden have been repaired and sidewalks have been updated.

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