The center meets the most modern cultural needs. Everyone can visit creative laboratories of various areas (painting, photography, theater), children's literary quests, screenings of cult films, exciting popular lectures on art, history and science for both adults and children. [Ballet Moscow Theater] (https://kudago.com/msk/place/teatr-balet-moskva/) and other famous troupes show their performances, there is a library, a system of free exchange of books (bookcrossing), English speaking club. And this is only a small part of the rich program of the cultural center.

A famous historical circle is the Stein Drama Theater, founded in 1937, and is attended by children from eight to 17 years old. It was here that Vasily Lanovoy and other outstanding artists — Vera Vasilyeva, Alexey Loktev, Valery Nosik, Igor Talankin, Vladimir Zemlyanikin and Yuri Katin-Yartsev — began their career.

**ZIL Cultural Center**, which belonged to the Likhachev Plant until 2008, is a unique constructivism building with a rich and interesting history. It was built in the 30s of the last century according to the project of the architects of the Vesnin brothers. At that time, the giant structure looked ultra-modern: large glazed surfaces and strict geometric shapes were impressive. Writer Konstantin Paustovsky compared the palace with a block of rock crystal.

On the roof there is the dome of the observatory, which is not operating today, but visitors to a tour of the cultural center can climb there and admire the city from above. The pride of the center is a large-scale winter garden, and the summer stage can accommodate up to two thousand people at a time.

Over the years, Yuri Gagarin, German Titov, Lev Yashin, Valery Kharlamov, Fidel Castro, Vladimir Vysotsky visited the Cultural Center. **Zila** interiors can be found in the famous Soviet film “Magicians”.