I traveled to Moscow, Russia, on business, and I took an old (and not very good) digital camera with me. These pages have some of the pictures I took.
A view from my room in the Renaissance Hotel Moscow, formerly the
Penta or Olympic Hotel.
The ugly futuristic building on the left--it looks like a crashed
UFO--houses an Olympic-sized swimming pool.
There were people swimming in it one time that we looked in.
The building on the right is an Olympic stadium.
Both of these buildings were constructed for the 1980 Moscow Olympics,
which the U.S. boycotted because of the Russian attack on Afghanistan.
I have never seen the stadium without a seemingly non-operating crane
in the background.
The stadium currently houses a number of small shops at its base, and a
book fair is held there on weekends.
It is well known to us NASA folks because the closest grocery store
to the hotel is there.
In the immediate foreground is the roof of a covered walkway that
leads from the hotel lobby to the domelike hotel restaurant on the
right.
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Last update: December 31, 2001
