24 Hours of Moscow
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Rush hour in Moscow's metro.
Ahead of City Day celebrated on the first weekend of September, Moscow Times photojournalist Pascal Dumont took a 24-hour journey around town with one goal: capture the metropolis's dynamic character throughout its daily cycle.
Dumont set out on his winding ramble from the city's northern outskirts at Rechnoi Vokzal (River Station) on Friday evening, Aug. 29, and finished in the south, in Butovo, at sunset the following day.
Take a look Behind the Scenes of the project.
Ahead of City Day celebrated on the first weekend of September, Moscow Times photojournalist Pascal Dumont took a 24-hour journey around town with one goal: capture the metropolis's dynamic character throughout its daily cycle.
Dumont set out on his winding ramble from the city's northern outskirts at Rechnoi Vokzal (River Station) on Friday evening, Aug. 29, and finished in the south, in Butovo, at sunset the following day.
Take a look Behind the Scenes of the project.
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A young couple embracing in the central Arbatskaya metro station just after rush hour Friday evening.
Pascal Dumont / MT
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Bolshevik revolutionary Vladimir Lenin keeps an eye on commuters as they rush through the Biblioteka Imeni Lenina metro station.
Pascal Dumont / MT
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A young couple gazing into central Moscow from a lookout spot in the hills of Vorobyovy Gory on Friday.
Pascal Dumont / MT
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A chairlift helping ascend the hills outside Moscow State University.
Pascal Dumont / MT
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Look towards Moscow City from Smotrovaya ploshchadka, and you'll be surprised how much green you see. It's all a matter of perspective.
Pascal Dumont / MT
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A young man sitting in front of the Luzhniki stadium.
Pascal Dumont / MT
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A hummer limousine waiting for a group of partying guests at a popular spot across from the main campus of Moscow State University in a southwestern part of town Friday.
Pascal Dumont / MT
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A bride-to-be walking with friends to a nightclub for her bachelorette party (?”?µ?????‡??????) after sunset.
Pascal Dumont / MT
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Big Reid, 53, from Kyrgyzstan, sleeps on this bench. He told me: "I'm homeless (?? ?±?????¶)."
Pascal Dumont / MT
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In the wee small hours, Moscow can be the perfect spot to share a kiss and ignore everything that is going on around you.
Pascal Dumont / MT
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Girls heading to the trendy club Gypsy at the old Red October chocolate factory.
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Partygoers gather on the embankment of Moscow River at former factory turned cultural center Krasny Oktyabr. A man is selling balloons with helium to inhale, so for these revelers the party is far from over.
Pascal Dumont / MT
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Young men wrestling in the plaza outside the downtown TsUM mall on Friday night.
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The sun is about to rise over Moscow ?€“ but these four will probably not notice it for a while.
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An all-nighter ends with partygoers waiting for the metro to open around 5:30 a.m.
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Sunrise in Chistiye Prudy neighborhood.
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An escalator running deep under the city's streets in a metro station.
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An Orthodox church is a focal point of a downtown business district.
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An old-school ticket window inside Moscow's Aeroport metro station.
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There's more to Moscow than the views on tourist postcards. Businovo district, for example, is located on the far outskirts of Moscow.
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A young family enjoys an outing in Butovo in Moscow's south. From the center, you'll need 50 minutes by metro to reach this area.
Pascal Dumont / MT
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Russian words worth learning: ?—?°?????°???‹???? is the term for people living outside Moscow's MKAD ring road ?€“ like those whose homes are near Buninskaya Alleya, the city's southernmost metro stop.
Pascal Dumont / MT
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Soldiers walking toward St. Basil's Cathedral to take part of Spasskaya Tower military music festival.
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