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Moscovium
Moscovium (Mc), formerly ununpentium, is a synthetic superheavy chemical element with atomic number 115, first made in 2003 at Dubna, Russia, and named by IUPAC in 2016.
Moscow (Москва)
Moscow (Москва), capital and largest city of Russia, first recorded in 1147; 12.6 million residents in the city, about 17 million in the agglomeration, with metro expansion, digital government services, and documented spatial inequality.
Moscow Agricultural Society
The Moscow Agricultural Society (Московское общество сельского хозяйства) was a Russian organization of agronomists and gentry, founded in 1818 to improve agriculture and closed in 1930.
Moscow Air Defence District
The Moscow Air Defence District, also known as the Order of Lenin Moscow Air Defence District, was a Soviet Air Defence Forces formation defending Moscow from 1954 to 1998.
Moscow Art Theatre
Moscow Art Theatre (MKhT, Московский Художественный театр), founded 1898 by Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko; pioneer of ensemble psychological realism, home of The Seagull and the Stanislavsky system, split in 1987 into Chekhov and Gorky theatres.
Moscow Canal
The Moscow Canal is a 128 km shipping canal in Russia connecting the Moskva River in Moscow with the Volga River near Dubna, opened in 1937.
Moscow CHP-22 power station
Moscow CHP-22 power station, also known as the Dzerzhinskaya CHP, is a Mosenergo combined heat and power plant in Dzerzhinsky, Moscow Oblast, commissioned in 1960.
Moscow Conceptualism
Moscow Conceptualism is an artistic and literary movement that emerged in Moscow's unofficial art scene, influential in the 1970s and 1980s, examining Soviet language, imagery, and everyday experience.
Moscow Conference (1945)
The Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers, held December 16 to 25, 1945, saw the United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union agree a trusteeship over Korea that failed.
Moscow Conservatory (Московская консерватория)
Moscow Conservatory (Московская консерватория), formally Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, is a Russian higher music school founded by Nikolai Rubinstein in 1866, where Tchaikovsky taught, with QS performing-arts ranking and Bolshaya Nikitskaya address.
Moscow December uprising (1905)
The Moscow December uprising (Декабрьское вооружённое восстание в Москве) was an armed rising of Moscow workers against the imperial government during the 1905 Revolution, crushed by mid-December.
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (Москва слезам не верит)
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (Москва слезам не верит) is a 1979 Mosfilm melodrama directed by Vladimir Menshov from Valentin Chernykh's script, starring Vera Alentova; it drew about 85 million Soviet viewers and won the 1981 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
Moscow hostage crisis chemical agent
Aerosolized fentanyl-derivative mixture, identified as carfentanil and remifentanil by 2012 Porton Down analysis, used by Russian special forces to end the 2002 Dubrovka theater siege; killed over 100 hostages.
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (Московский физико-технический институт)
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT, Phystech, Московский физико-технический институт) is a Russian national research university in Dolgoprudny, established 1951 on a 1946 MSU physics-technology faculty, known for the Phystech System and EU-sanctioned in 2026.
Moscow International Business Center (Московский международный деловой центр)
Moscow International Business Center, also known as Moscow-City, is a commercial skyscraper district on the Moskva River in central Moscow, conceived in 1992 and containing Europe's tallest building, the 374-meter Federation Tower.
Moscow Linguistic Circle
The Moscow Linguistic Circle (Московский лингвистический кружок) was a society of Russian philologists founded in 1915 at Moscow University, a home of Russian Formalism led by Roman Jakobson until 1924.
Moscow Mathematical Papyrus
The Moscow Mathematical Papyrus, also called the Golenischev Mathematical Papyrus, is an ancient Egyptian mathematical text from about 1850 BC containing 25 problems with worked solutions.
MoSCoW method
The MoSCoW method, also called MoSCoW prioritization, is a technique that sorts requirements into Must have, Should have, Could have, and Won't have categories, originating in the DSDM agile framework.
Moscow Metro (Московский метрополитен)
The Moscow Metro (Московский метрополитен) is Moscow, Russia's rapid transit system, opened on 15 May 1935 and now one of the world's busiest, with about 2.5 billion passengers a year.
Moscow metropolitanate
The Moscow metropolitanate (Митрополия Московская и всея Руси) was the Orthodox see of Moscow and All Rus from 1461 until the patriarchate was created in 1589.
Moscow mule
The Moscow mule is an American buck cocktail of vodka, ginger beer, and lime juice, created around 1941 at Los Angeles' Cock 'n Bull via Smirnoff's John Martin and pub owner Jack Morgan, served in a copper mug, with riffs like the Kentucky and Mexican mule.
Moscow Notebooks
The Moscow Notebooks (Московские тетради) are two notebooks of poems that Osip Mandelstam wrote in Moscow between 1930 and 1934, ending before his first arrest.
Moscow Oblast
Moscow Oblast (Московская область), informally Podmoskovye, is a Russian federal subject, an oblast surrounding but administratively separate from Moscow; founded in 1929, it is Russia's second-most-populous oblast.
Moscow of the Taverns
Moscow of the Taverns (Moskva kabatskaya, Москва кабацкая) is a 1924 poetry collection by Sergei Yesenin, published in Leningrad and divided into the cycles Moskva kabatskaya and Lyubov khuligana.
Moscow Orphanage
The Moscow Orphanage (Московский воспитательный дом) was a charitable home for foundlings in Moscow, founded by Empress Catherine II in 1763 on Ivan Betskoy's plan and abolished after the 1917 revolution.
Moscow Peace Treaty (Московский мирный договор)
Moscow Peace Treaty (Московский мирный договор), the 12 March 1940 agreement ending the Winter War; Finland ceded Karelia including Viborg, leased Hanko for 30 years, and the USSR withdrew from Petsamo.
Moscow plague of 1770–1772
The Moscow plague of 1770–1772 (Московская чума 1770–1772) was an epidemic brought from Turkey that killed tens of thousands in Moscow and sparked a riot in September 1771.
Moscow Printing Yard
The Moscow Printing Yard (Московский печатный двор) was the Russian state printing house, founded by Ivan IV in 1553 and holding a monopoly on printed books in Muscovy.
Moscow Provincial Soviet of Peasants' Deputies
The Moscow Provincial Soviet of Peasants' Deputies (Московский губернский совет крестьянских депутатов) was the soviet of peasant deputies for Moscow gubernia, formed after the February Revolution of 1917.
Moscow Provincial Zemstvo
The Moscow Provincial Zemstvo (Московское губернское земство) was the elected local self-government for Moscow province, created under the 1864 zemstvo reform and liquidated in 1918, best known for rural medicine.