Moscow-850
Sign in to savethumb|250px|Wheel and VDNKh in winter thumb|250px|View of the wheel and VDNKh thumb|250px|Dismantling the wheel Moscow-850 () was a Ferris wheel in the amusement park "Moscow-850" on the territory of VDNKh (Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy), built for the 850th anniversary of Moscow. It was dismantled in 2016 and was replaced in 2022 by Sun of Moscow.
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- Russia
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- Moscow-850 Ferris wheel
- inception
- 1995-00-00
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2016-00-00
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thumb|250px|Wheel and VDNKh in winter thumb|250px|View of the wheel and VDNKh thumb|250px|Dismantling the wheel Moscow-850 () was a Ferris wheel in the amusement park "Moscow-850" on the territory of VDNKh (Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy), built for the 850th anniversary of Moscow. It was dismantled in 2016 and was replaced in 2022 by Sun of Moscow.
Moscow-850 had a diameter of and an overall height of , made a full turn in 7 minutes, was equipped with 40 cabins, accommodating 8 people each. At the time of its construction, Moscow-850 was the tallest extant Ferris wheel in Europe, but in 1999 it was surpassed by the 90-metre Eurowheel at Mirabilandia, Italy. Moscow-850 was the tallest Ferris wheel in Russia until an 80-metre wheel opened in Lazarevskoye, near Sochi, in 2012.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Moscow-850” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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