Free travel guide app to Moscow from The Calvert Journal

The Calvert Journal has released a free travel guide app to Moscow for iPhone and iPad.

The leading authority on culture and travel in Russia has created an insider’s guide to the city, using the expertise of an editorial team in London as well as Moscow-based contributors. According to the creators, the selection criteria for inclusion are very strict, and only the best bars, restaurants and attractions make it into the travel guide app.

The free app features a range of quality places to eat, drink and stay, the best attractions and destinations in Moscow, and great alternatives to the usual tourist sites in the city. They have been created to cater for tourists or visitors to Moscow looking for a cultural guide to the city, in particular those with an interest in architecture, design and art.

A quality offline map is included in the free iOS app, as is essential information about all featured locations. The app works with other apps too, such as Google Maps, Apple Maps, Yandex Taxi and Uber.

Samuel Crews, an editor at the The Calvert Journal, described the apps as the most up—to-date travel guides available: “The app to Moscow is updated monthly by local experts, meaning our guide to the Russian capital isn’t out-of-date the day it’s published. It also means we can include information on the best new exhibitions and events every month inside the app.”

The apps have been specially designed for iPhone and iPad devices and feature a mix of texts and beautiful photography. Destinations can be easily navigated via simple categories: eat, drink, see, do, stay, stop, travel.

Crews also described how The Calvert Journal’s expertise on Russia contributed to the innovative and simple design of the travel guide app: “We understand that many cities in Russia and eastern Europe cannot be broken down into neighbourhoods for tourists as so many other guide books or apps do. Users can find locations easily through GPS localisation and a very detailed map. That’s all you need.”

Highlights in the current edition of the app include a number of architectural icons such as the Melnikov House, Shukhov Tower and Narkomfin. Other unusual things to visit in Moscow include the Soviet Arcade Museum, Gorky Park and even a ukulele shop.

The team are currently working on further developments to the apps, with itineraries and notifications to feature in future editions. Travel guide apps will also be available for St Petersburg, Sochi Kazan, and many more cities in Russia and eastern Europe in the near future.

More information on the apps can be found here.

Download the app from the Apple App Store here.