Moscow is the traditional Holy Mother of the Russians and the economic, political, and cultural centre of Russia. Railways and numerous airlines converge on the city from all parts of Russia and the other successor states of the USSR. Population 10,, The two images show how the areas around the city have experienced large growth in urban development during this period. Another aim of these images is to promote the opportunity to download Landsat data through the ESA portals, where images captured every day are made available in near real time to the users and the scientific community.
View large format slider. These images acquired by the Sentinel-1 satellite in March and April , show the city of Moscow using a merge combination of three radar images. The aim of this image is to promote this new radar satellite space mission from ESA in the Copernicus Programme. The Sentinel-1 mission consists of a constellation of two satellites, the first of which was launched in April This merge image also aims to demonstrate the future monitoring of Earth through the Sentinel satellites.
The payload of Sentinel-1 is a Synthetic Aperture Radar in C-band that provides continuous imagery day, night and all weather. Most civilians were evacuated from the city as Soviet soldiers fought the Nazis in the Battle of Moscow from October to January The defeat of the Nazis in this battle was a major turning point in the war.
After the Soviet Union collapsed in , Moscow continued to serve as the capital,this time of a new entity, the Russian Federation. Today Moscow is an extremely diverse city, where ancient neighborhoods are interspersed with newly built high-rises, inhabited by people from all over the former Soviet Union.
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Petersburg in , Moscow became the official capital again after the revolution of In the s, Napoleon invaded Moscow after defeating the Russians in Borodino.
It is said that the people had set fire to the city instead of seeing it under occupation. After the defeat of Napoleon, it is possible to see the monuments erected in the memory of this salvation in the rebuilt city. With the first steps of industrialization, the population of Moscow in the s exceeded one million.
In , the Moscow-based Bolshevik revolution took place over a thousand deaths. The city, which became the capital city again, experienced a huge population increase with the serious industrialization steps of Stalin. Many historical buildings were demolished for this purpose. With the help of the early winter, the Russians won the Nazi forces and saved the city from being invaded again. Although many bloody events occurred during the fall of communism, Moscow suffered less than the rest of the Soviet Union.
In the continuation of this process, different economic classes started, and Moscow became the metropolis of today. Moscow has a population of Moscow has a surface area of 2, square kilometers. Moscow is a city less affected by the cold Russian climate. Temperate continental climate shows the influence in the city. Strong frost, destructive temperatures are quite rare.
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