Worth pausing for a moment if you’re passing. You may remember the TV news images of this government building being bombarded during an attempted coup. In front of the building, Boris Yeltsin climbed atop a tank and pleaded with the army to side with the government.
Krasnopresnenskaya naberezhnaya 2; nearest metro: Krasnopresnenskaya
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