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Beyond the Garden Ring and Kursky train station, a belt of centenarian factories is be-
coming one of Moscow's hottest art, shopping and start-up scenes. The flagship Vinzavod, a
former winery, is packed with galleries, while the nearby ArtPlay area specializes in modern
design.
Local Life
New Moscow
Watch the city's game-changers plot new projects and start-ups at Vinza-
vod and ArtPlay.
Budget Joint
What are young Russians up to? Find out at Tsiferblat, where
20-somethings spend time engaging in a few dozen different activities.
Outdoors
Whatever the weather, locals stroll and socialise around Chistye Prudy.
Getting There & Away
Meshchansky
Several metro lines pass through Meshchansky. Both the purple Tagansko-
Krasnopresnenskaya line and the orange Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line have stops at Kitay-
Gorod. Along the Boulevard Ring, Chistye Prudy is on the red Sokolnicheskaya line;
Turgenevskaya is on the orange Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line; and Sretensky Bulvar is on
the light green Lyublinskaya line.
Basmanny
Converted factories are best accessed from Kurskaya where the ring links
with the dark blue Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line and the light green Lyublinskaya line.
