Moscow is a city of contrasts. Who expected to see a basketball court near the imperial [Stalinist skyscraper] (https://kudago.com/msk/place/dom-na-kotelnicheskoj-naberezhnoj/), as if it came down from an American film about difficult teenagers?

A bizarre combination of Soviet and American landscapes: a high-rise building from the Stalinist Empire era, and next to it is a basketball court with graffiti, like in a Brooklyn ghetto. The sides of the site are painted with unreadable inscriptions, and young people gather on the court to play ball.

The yard widens along the high-rise building and continues to stretch to the river, where it becomes a high shady hill. By the way, in one of the apartments of the high-rise building on Kotelnicheskaya Embankment, after restoration, [the museum-apartment of ballerina Galina Ulanova] reopened (https://kudago.com/msk/place/muzej-kvartira-g-s-ulanovoj/). A legal and fun way to get inside this legendary building and walk its grand stairs.