The Moscow State Circus (on Vernadsky Prospekt) is an auditorium which was opened in 1971 and can seat up to 3,400 people. Performances are held each day in the afternoon and evening. The company employs several hundred performers and tours as the "Great Moscow State Circus troupe". The circus consists of a cast of thirty-one performers, including clowns, trapeze artists, aerial acrobats, springboard acrobats and illusionists, but does not feature animals. Since 2012 its director is Edgar Zapashny, a famous wild-animal tamer from a well-known circus dynasty.
Moscow Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard named after Yuri Nikulin still remains the most popular one. Among the famous performers who worked there were the clowns Karandash, Oleg Popov, and Yury Nikulin, who managed the company for fifteen years and whose name it has borne since his passing in 1997. In front of the building is a remarkable statue of Nikulin, whose son Maxim has been in charge of the circus ever since his death.
Evening performances in all Moscow theatres begin at 19:00; matinees – at 12:00. Concert and circus shows begin at 19:30.
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Andrei Rublev Museum of Early Russian Art, the – Центральный музей древнерусской культуры и искусства им. Андрея Рублева
Annunciation Cathedral, the – Благовещенский собор
Archangel Cathedral, the – Архангельский собор
Assumption Cathedral, the – Успенский собор
Bell Tower of Ivan the Great, the – Колокольня Ивана Великого
Cathedral Square – Соборная Площадь
Christ the Savior Cathedral – Храм Христа Спасителя
Church of All Saints – Церковь Всех Святых (На Кулишках)
Church of the Ascension of Christ in Kolomenskoye – Церковь Вознесения в Коломенском
Church of the Deposition of the Robe, the – Церковь Ризположения
Donskoy Monastery, the – Донской монастырь
Faceted Palace, the – Грановитая палата
Fili Church – Церковь Покрова в Филях (Церковь Покрова Пресвятой Богородицы в Филях)
Grand Prince Andrew Bogolubsky – великий князь Андрей Боголюбский
Ivan the Red – Иван Красный
Ivan the Terrible – Иван Грозный
Iver God’s Mother Icon Chapel – Часовня Храма Иверской Иконы Божьей Матери
Kazan God’ Mother Icon Cathedral – Храм Казанской Иконы Божьей Матери
Kolomenskoye Estate-Museum, the – музей-усадьба Коломенское
Kuskovo Estate and the Ceramics Museum, the – усадьба Кусково и музей керамики