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Managing Editor, NGM.com Rob Covey <![CDATA[Producer & Editor]]> Carolyn Fox <![CDATA[Writer & Researcher]]> Jamie Bussey Flash Developer Stefan Estrada Styling Kitry Krause Research Consultants Emily Krieger and Ludmila Mekertycheva /2008/08/moscow-night/img/moscow-restaurant-470.jpg Photograph by Gerd Ludwig /2008/08/moscow-night/img/moscow-construction-470.jpg Workers assemble sections of an apartment complex. Photograph by Gordan Gahan /2008/08/moscow-night/img/red-square-470.jpg Photograph by Gerd Ludwig /2008/08/moscow-night/img/russia-tower-470.jpg Russia Tower /2008/08/moscow-night/img/men-bath-house-470.jpg Russian men gather together at an old-fashioned sauna in St. Petersburg. Photograph by Sisse Brimberg /2008/08/moscow-night/img/vodka-picnic-470.jpg A Russian man offers a friend vodka during a picnic. Photograph by Dean Conger /2008/08/moscow-night/img/christ-savior-470.jpg Christ the Savior Cathedral, rebuilt after the Soviets pulled it down. Photograph by Gerd Ludwig /2008/08/moscow-night/img/moscow-traffic-470.jpg Traffic grinds and snarls at rush hour on the eight-lane Garden Ring. Photograph by Gerd Ludwig 9 Excellent work. You are a Moscow expert. With a little work, you will be a pro on Moscow. You are off to a good start. You may want to try again. 0 33 51 74 102 3 Forbes publishes a list of the world's billionaires, and in 2008 Moscow was home to 74, more than any other city in the world (New York City was second, with 71).

The typical Moscow billionaire is a man in his late 30s to mid-50s with an average net worth of $5.9 billion. The city's richest, Oleg Deripaska, made his fortune in the aluminum industry. With a net worth of $28 billion, he's the ninth richest person in the world.]]> 1 Oil Construction Inheritance Textiles 2 2 $950 $1,250 $13,500 $50,000 2 3 Office space Retail stores Hotel All of the above 4 4 Vodka and cheese Hot tea and bread Dried fish and beer Nothing 4 banyas as they're called in Russia, traditionally never had a place for eating or resting. But now Russian bathers have the option of going to baths where they can enjoy cold beer and dried fish and take breaks from the steam room to play billiards. These new banyas can cost 1,000 to 1,500 rubles an hour ($42 to $64), in contrast with the more traditional bathhouses, which cost no more than 700 rubles ($29) an hour. ]]> 5 14 pints 30 pints 50 pints 73 pints 2 6 He's funded public works projects. He's invested in policing programs. He's donated to nonprofit organizations. He's given money to the national government to help pay off its debt. 1
The reconstruction of Moscow has been controversial, because in his attempt to incorporate varying architectural styles, Luzhkov has included buildings that some citizens consider eyesores.]]> 7 40 102 336 570 1