Open-Air Events in Moscow
Retro Transport Festival on Vorobievy Gory
On July 9, the city will celebrate Moscow Transport Day. Visitors of the festival will get to experience the style of Moscow streets of the 1960s–1970s. The Museum of Moscow Transport and a number of retro car clubs will demonstrate retro cars, buses and trucks. The exhibition will feature a model Daimler-Marienfelde bus (1905), which was the first bus on Moscow’s suburban route.
The festival will also include a five-hour retro car rally across Moscow, starting and finishing near the main MSU building on Vorobievy Gory.
The exhibition will be open from 10 am to 9 pm; the rally starts at 12 pm and finishes between 5 and 6 pm; the concert starts at 7 pm.
Location: area between the MSU main building and Vorobievy Gory viewpoint.
Admission is free. Register here.
Night Bike Festival
The Bike Festival is a major event promoting the use of bicycles in Moscow, as well as a great opportunity to meet friends and have fun. Street traffic in the centre of Moscow will be closed to cars in order to give way to bicycles.
The festival will open at 6:30 pm on July 9 with food courts and music at Suvorovskaya Ploshad. The 20-km bike route starts at 8 pm and finishes two hours later on Bolotnaya Ploshad.
Admission is free. Register here.
At 10:30 pm on July 9, a night-time 10-km foot race will start in Luzhniki. Unfortunately, registration for the event has already closed.
Streets around the Kremlin, Lubyanka and Christ the Saviour Cathedral will be closed from 7:30 am to 12 pm for the Sputnik Criterium Bicycle Race.
In the morning of July 9, Moscow Muslims will gather for the major religious holiday of Eid al-Adha, which means that the streets around the main Moscow mosques will also be closed to traffic. These include the mosques on Bolshaya Tatarskaya Ulitsa, Prospekt Mira, and Minskaya Ulitsa.