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Helpful Moscow Facts for Visitors

Helpful Moscow Facts for Visitors

Moscow Facts on World Embassies

Australia Embassy, Kropotkinskiy per. 13, Moscow, Russia tel 095/956 6070, www.australianembassy.ru;

Canada Embassy, Starokonyushenniy per. 23, Moscow, Russia tel 095/956 6666;

Ireland Embassy, Grokholskiy per. 5, Moscow, Russia tel 095/937 5911;

New Zealand Embassy, Povarskaya ul. 44, Moscow, Russia tel 095/956 3579 www.nzembassy.msk.ru;

UK Embassy, Smolenskaya nab. 10, Moscow, Russia tel 095/956 72 00;

US Embassy, Novinskiy bulvar 19/23, Moscow, Russia tel 095/728 5000. Unless you have official business or are met by embassy personnel or a compound resident, the United States embassy is off-limits, even to Americans.

 

Moscow Facts on Emergencies

Ambulance (PHONE: 03).

American Citizens Services (PHONE: 095/728-5577 after-hours emergency).

British Embassy clinic (PHONE: 095/956-7270 or 095/956-7273).

Fire (PHONE: 01).

Police (PHONE: 02).

Hospitals and Clinics :

•  American Medical Center, Grokholskiy per. 1, Moscow, Russia tel 095/933 7700

The American Medical Center offers full-range family practice and emergency services, including evacuation assistance. If treatment is needed outside their clinic, they use various hospitals. The office is open 24 hours, and doctors make house calls 24 hours. Medicine can be provided at the clinic. A tourist plan is available.

•  European Medical Centre, 2-oy Tverskoy-Yamskoy per. 10, Moscow, Russia tel 095/787 7000.

The European Medical Centre is not a membership group and offers a full range of services, including day and night house calls. Hospital referral is usually to the ZKB Presidential Hospital. English and French are spoken. Medicine can be provided at the clinic.

Both recognized by international insurance companies.

Moscow Facts on Dentists

Of the general service clinics, the American Medical Center, European Medical Centre, and Mediclub Moscow also offer dental services; the International SOS Clinic also has access to dental facilities. U.S. Dental Care is a joint Russian-U.S. clinic offering all types of dental treatment. Laboratories and pharmacy are on-site. Optional membership and all services are available to tourists. The clinic is open weekdays 8 AM-8 PM, and has after-hours emergency care. The German Dental Clinic is open weekdays 9-6 and Saturday 9-2. They are closed on Sunday.

•  German Dental Clinic (2 Volochayevskaya ul., building 1, Moscow, Russia tel: 095/362-4902).

•  U.S. Dental Care (7/5 Bolshaya Dmitrovka, Moscow, Russia tel: 095/933-8686, Metro: Pushkinskaya).

 

Moscow Facts on Exchange

Official currency exchanges and ATMs all over the centre of Moscow. Don't be surprised if the exchange rates are different at exchange offices right next-door to each other. To get the best rate, don't make a point of exchanging money at a bank. Most exchange offices are safe. Some of the best rates can be found in the Smolenskaya metro station area.

Exchange Services

•  Baltschug Kempinski bank (1 Balchug ul., first floor, Moscow, Russia tel: 095/941-8020).

•  MDM bank (2 Berezhkovskaya nab., Moscow Russia, first floor; tel: 095/941-8434).

 

Moscow Facts on Services

Internet cafes

•  Cafemax - ul. Pyatnitskaya 25, Moscow, Russia ; Novokuznetskaya metro;

•  Image.ru Novoslobodskaya ul. 16, Moscow, Russia ; Mendeleyevskaya metro;

•  Internet Club Kuznetskiy most 12, Moscow, Russia ; Kuznetskiy Most metro.

Laundry California Cleaners, Petrovska 27, Moscow, Russia ; tel 095/200 6400.

Left luggage Most train stations have lockers and/or a 24hr left-luggage office, but you would be tempting fate to use them.

Pharmacy Staryy Arbat, Arbatskaya ul. 25 Moscow, Russia

Multifarma, Turistkaya ul. 27, Moscow, Russia

24hr pharmacy at pr. Mira 71, Moscow, Russia

Post office Central Telegraph Office, Tverskaya ul. 7; Main Post Office, Myasnitskaya ul. 26/2, 101000. Express postal services via Courier Service, Bolshaya Sadovaya 10 tel 095/209 1735 (Mayakovskaya metro).