Key facts
- Elevation
- 80 m (260 ft)
- Location
- Moscow , Russia
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- hill
- Named after
- Vladimir Lenin
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Located in
- Moscow
- Elevation
- 80
- Image
- 00 1815 Market stall in Moscow.jpg
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- Commons category
- Sparrow Hills
- native label
- Воробьёвы горы
- different from
- Sparrow Hills
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Encyclopedic overview
Sparrow Hills (Russian: Воробьёвы го́ры, Vorobyovy gory), formerly known as Lenin Hills (Ле́нинские го́ры, Leninskiye gory), is a hill on the right bank of the Moskva River and one of the highest points in Moscow, reaching a height of 80 m (260 ft) above the river level.
The observation platform is on a steep bank 85 m (279 ft) above the river, or 200 m (660 ft) above sea level. The Central Lenin Stadium, where the opening and closing ceremonies for the 1980 Summer Olympics took place, is right below, across the Moskva River. Next to it is the Novodevichy Convent, with its Naryshkin Baroque towers.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sparrow Hills” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.