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Assignment Selection

Assignments are short quests, consisting of a series of missions . You can have one active assignment at a time, and choose it at the Assignment Board in the Space Rig .

There are currently 35 assignments available: Conquering Hoxxes IV , Four Promotion Assignments , Seven Prestige , Sixteen Weapon License Assignments , One assignment for unlocking Hazard 5 difficulty, One assignment for unlocking the Mineral Trade Terminal , One assignment for unlocking Industrial Sabotage , Heavy Duty and Weekly Assignments . Additionally the Weekly Core Hunt reward Infused Matrix Core after completing Breach The Core .

• 1.1 Objective: Conquer Hoxxes IV
• 1.2 Company Benefits: Mineral Trading Network
• 1.3 Objective: Breach The Core
• 1.4 New Hazard Level: Lethal
• 1.5 Spec Ops: Sabotage Training
• 1.6 Warning: Rival Escalation
• 1.7.1 Weekly Priority Assignment
• 1.7.2 Weekly Core Hunt
• 1.8.1 Driller
• 1.8.2 Engineer
• 1.8.3 Gunner
• 1.8.4 Scout
• 1.9.1 Driller
• 1.9.2 Engineer
• 1.9.3 Gunner
• 1.9.4 Scout
• 1.10.1 Heavy Duty
• 1.10.2 Pickaxe Hunts
• 1.10.3 Armor Hunts
• 1.11.1 Lunar Convergence Cleanup
• 1.11.2 Anniversary Bonus
• 1.11.3 The Great Egg Hunt
• 1.11.4 Hoxxes Summer Cruise
• 1.11.5 Oktoberfest Celebration
• 1.11.6 Halloween Party Special
• 1.11.7 The Horrors of Hoxxes
• 1.11.8 Yearly Performance Bonus

Assignments [ ]

Objective: conquer hoxxes iv [ ].

This is a 10-mission long assignment that has to be played by every new player to unlock all available mission types and Planetary Regions . These missions are free of Mutators .

Company Benefits: Mineral Trading Network [ ]

This is a short, 3 mission long assignment that will unlock the Mineral Trade Terminal It becomes available after Conquering Hoxxes IV assignment has been completed.

Objective: Breach The Core [ ]

Upon obtaining the first promotion , the end campaign assignment mission is unlocked. Completing this 9 mission long assignment will reward the player with 6 Infused Matrix Cores, as well as unlocks the Weekly Core Hunt assignment.

New Hazard Level: Lethal [ ]

This is a 3 mission-long assignment, upon completion the player is granted access to Hazard 5 - Lethal. The assignment's missions can have mutators and have to be completed at Hazard 4.

Spec Ops: Sabotage Training [ ]

A 3 mission long assignment that will grant the player access to the mission type Industrial Sabotage upon completion.

Warning: Rival Escalation [ ]

1 Rewards a Blank Matrix Core if all Weapon Overclocks are owned 2 Rewards a Mineral Canister if all Matrix Core Cosmetics are owned

Note that this assignment is unusual, as it can provide Blank Matrix Cores before a player has promoted their first miner and unlocked The Forge and Machine Events . Because Machine Events cannot be initiated pre-promotion, the only way to preemptively use these cores is to find a Machine Event while playing with another player who has already acquired the Tritilyte Key.

Weekly Assignments [ ]

These two assignments are repeatable in order to reward players for continued play. Like Deep Dives , they reset at 11am UTC on Thursdays.

Weekly Priority Assignment [ ]

Weekly Core Hunt [ ]

Equipment Licenses [ ]

Dwarves will unlock these assignments once reaching specific levels, these assignments grant them licenses to various equipment.

Driller [ ]

Engineer [ ], promotion [ ].

When one of your dwarves reaches Character Level 25, they become eligible for a promotion . In order to promote, you have to complete a 4-mission long assignment, and pay a large amount of Credits and Crafting Materials.

Prestige Assignments [ ]

Heavy Duty [ ]

This assignment becomes available after Conquering Hoxxes IV assignment has been completed. It's focused on the big machinery Missions and will reward 50 of each crafting materials, credits and a special helmet.

Pickaxe Hunts [ ]

Armor hunts [ ], special events [ ], lunar convergence cleanup [ ].

Assignment temporally available during the Hoxxes Lunar Festival event in January.

Anniversary Bonus [ ]

Assignment temporally available during the Anniversary Bonus event in February.

The Great Egg Hunt [ ]

Assignment temporally available during the Easter event in April.

Hoxxes Summer Cruise [ ]

Assignment temporally available during the Space Beach Party event in June.

Oktoberfest Celebration [ ]

Assignment temporally available during the Oktoberfest event in September.

Halloween Party Special [ ]

Assignment temporally available during the Halloween Season event in October.

The Horrors of Hoxxes [ ]

Yearly performance bonus [ ].

Assignment temporally available during the Holiday Season event at the end of the year.

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Overview Space Rig Assignments

Assignments are short quests, consisting of a series of missions . You can have one active assignment at a time, and choose it at the Assignment Board in the Space Rig .

Biome rotation does not affect the type of missions that will progress an assignment. For example, if it calls for a specific Egg Hunt as its final mission, it will still call for an Egg Hunt mission in all future rotations. The biome, length and complexity of the mission, its mutators might change, but the type of the mission will stay the same.

There are currently 31 assignments available: Conquering Hoxxes IV , Four Promotion Assignments , Seven Prestige , Sixteen Weapon License Assignments , One assignment for unlocking Hazard 5 difficulty, Two Seasonal Assignments , One assignment for unlocking the Mineral Trade Terminal , One assignment for unlocking Industrial Sabotage , Heavy Duty and Weekly Assignments . Additionally the Weekly Core Hunt reward Infused Matrix Core after completing Breach The Core .

• 1 Objective: Conquer Hoxxes IV
• 2 Company Benefits: Mineral Trading Network
• 3 Objective: Breach The Core
• 4 New Hazard Level: Lethal
• 5 Spec Ops: Industrial Sabotage
• 6 Warning: Rival Escalation
• 7.1 Weekly Priority Assignment
• 7.2 Weekly Core Hunt
• 8.1 Driller
• 8.2 Engineer
• 9.1 Driller
• 9.2 Engineer
• 10.1 Heavy Duty
• 10.2 Pickaxe Hunts
• 10.3 Armor Hunts
• 11.1 Plaguefall
• 11.2 Critical Corruption
• 12.1.1 Lunar Convergence Cleanup
• 12.1.2 Lunar Festival 2023
• 12.1.3 Lunar Festival 2024
• 12.1.4 Last Year's Blessings
• 12.2.1 Anniversary Bonus
• 12.2.2 MK6 Armor: Advance Access
• 12.3.1 The Great Egg Hunt
• 12.3.2 Last Year's Spring Fashion
• 12.4.1 Hoxxes Summer Cruise
• 12.4.2 Last Year's Summer Fashion
• 12.5.1 Oktoberfest Celebration
• 12.5.2 Hunt for Lederhosen
• 12.6.1 Halloween Party Special 2021
• 12.6.2 The Horrors of Hoxxes
• 12.6.3 Halloween Party Special 2023
• 12.6.4 Last Year's Horrors
• 12.7.1 Yearly Performance Bonus
• 12.7.2 The Yuletide Elf Hunt
• 12.7.3 The Fashion of Yuletide Past

Objective: Conquer Hoxxes IV

This is a 10-mission long assignment that has to be played by every new player to unlock all available mission types and Planetary Regions . These missions are free of Mutators .

Company Benefits: Mineral Trading Network

This is a short, 3 mission long assignment that will unlock the Mineral Trade Terminal It becomes available after Conquering Hoxxes IV assignment has been completed.

Objective: Breach The Core

Upon obtaining the first promotion , the end campaign assignment mission is unlocked. Completing this 9 mission long assignment will reward the player with 6 Infused Matrix Cores, as well as unlocks the Weekly Core Hunt assignment.

New Hazard Level: Lethal

This is a 3 mission-long assignment, upon completion the player is granted access to Hazard 5 - Lethal. The assignment's missions can have mutators and have to be completed at Hazard 4.

Spec Ops: Industrial Sabotage

A one mission long assignment that will grant the player access to the mission type Industrial Sabotage upon completion.

Warning: Rival Escalation

1 Rewards a Blank Matrix Core if all Weapon Overclocks are owned 2 Rewards a Mineral Canister if all Matrix Core Cosmetics are owned

Note that this assignment is unusual, as it can provide Blank Matrix Cores before a player has promoted their first miner and unlocked The Forge and Machine Events . Because Machine Events cannot be initiated pre-promotion, the only way to preemptively use these cores is to find a Machine Event while playing with another player who has already acquired the Tritilyte Key.

Weekly Assignments

These two assignments are repeatable in order to reward players for continued play. Like Deep Dives , they reset at 11am UTC on Thursdays.

Weekly Priority Assignment

Weekly Core Hunt

Equipment Licenses

Dwarves will unlock these assignments once reaching specific levels, these assignments grant them licenses to various equipment.

When one of your dwarves reaches Character Level 25, they become eligible for a promotion . In order to promote, you have to complete a 4-mission-long assignment, and pay a large amount of Credits and Crafting Materials. Missions for these assignments are picked randomly.

Prestige Assignments

This assignment becomes available after Conquering Hoxxes IV assignment has been completed. It's focused on the big machinery Missions and will reward 50 of each crafting materials, credits and a special helmet.

Pickaxe Hunts

Armor hunts, season events.

Assignment temporarily available during the Season 03: Plaguefall .

Critical Corruption

Assignment temporarily available during the Season 04: Critical Corruption .

Special Events

Lunar new year, lunar convergence cleanup.

Assignment temporarily available during the Hoxxes Lunar Festival event in January.

Lunar Festival 2023

Lunar festival 2024, last year's blessings.

Assignment temporarily available during the Holiday Season event at the end of the year.

Deep Rock Galactic Anniversary

Anniversary bonus.

Assignment temporarily available during the Anniversary Bonus event in February.

MK6 Armor: Advance Access

The great egg hunt.

Assignment temporarily available during the Easter event in April.

Last Year's Spring Fashion

Space beach party, hoxxes summer cruise.

Assignment temporarily available during the Space Beach Party event in Summer.

Last Year's Summer Fashion

Oktoberfest, oktoberfest celebration.

Assignment temporarily available during the Oktoberfest event in September.

Hunt for Lederhosen

Halloween party special 2021.

Assignment temporarily available during the Halloween Season event in October.

The Horrors of Hoxxes

Halloween party special 2023, last year's horrors, christmas & new year, yearly performance bonus, the yuletide elf hunt, the fashion of yuletide past.

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Opensource Deep Rock Galactic deepdives and weekly assignment emulator and scheduler.

0P3N50URC3-F0R3V3R/blackbeard

Folders and files, repository files navigation, blackbeard event emulator.

This is an OpenSource project for the game DEEP ROCK GALACTIC - DEEPDIVE, ASSIGNMENT AND EVENT EMULATOR

Currently Supported platform: Windows, or linux(Tested on Raspberry Buster, debian and ubuntu) only. You need to compile it yourself though. For the linux it does not need any big deal it will work on any pascal compiler and on an apache2 server(you need to add the fake cert manually though)

Introduction

Supported clients: up to Update 35(Season one)Patch 3

YOU NEED SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR ACCOUNT ON WINDOWS(TRUE ADMIN) OR BLACKBEARD PROGRAM WILL NO WORK WELL(IT WONT HAVE WRITE ACCESS!)

An Opensource offline working deep rock galactic - deepdive and weekly assignments emulator and assignment scheduler written in LAZARUS IDE pascal.

This is an offline working DeepDive and weekly assigment "emulator" (it is very bold to call it emulator, lets just call it "bypass" or "mimcking" or what... :D :P) Basicly; its mimicks the events and deepdive missions like in original; but in offline mode thru a XAMPP apache server and a self signed cert file... that is good for us; since the game does not allow you to play offline assigments/dives if you dont have active internet connection... But i made a so called solution, with LAN only mode true offline. Also you can change anytime the mission seeds for your taste, if you dont like what you see.on the assignment panel.

Here is what is working with this(so far):

• Random generated DeepDives,
• Official DeepDives up to: V1.37.84154.0 Master Edition.
• Daily Assignments,
• Weekly Assignments,
• Free beer events, ect ect.
• Main Events like Halloween Xmas, ect

#NOT ALL EVENTS WORKING WITH THE LATEST VERSION FOR SOME EVENTS, - ESPECIALLY FOR OLDER ONES - YOU WILL NEED TO GET OLDER CLIENT VERSIONS FROM STEAM MANIFESTS!! NOT WORKING WITH ALL, BLACKBEARD IS UNIVERSAL IN THIS MANNER.

Here is what is not working yet:

• Community part is not working yet. It might never will.
• On lan you might want to share with other players your xampp deepdive server IP adresses to see the same missions...

Good to know:

• Weekly assignments requires level 8 character This is the BLUE level indicator NOT THE RED!.
• Weekly assignments WONT BE VISIBLE until you reach level 8. Until then just premade assignments visible.
• For get into deep diving you will need at least a level 25 character!!!
• ALWAYS START THE BLACKBEARD PROGRAM WITH SYSTEM ADMIN RIGHTS IN WINDOWS! OTHERWISE THE PROGRAM WONT BE ABLE TO SAVE/WRITE ON YOUR DISK YOUR FILE!
• YOU NEED TO SET THE DATE TO YOURSELF! The program wont select to you new dates.

WARNING! IF YOU HAVE ACTIVE WINDOWS DEFENDER YOU NEED TO EDIT THE HOSTS FILE MANUALLY!!!! IT WONT WORK FROM THE PROGRAM! FROM BLACKBEARD ONLY WORKS WITH DISABLED WINDOWS DEFENDER!

Here is how to use this tool:.

The latest game for me in DX12 was crashed constantly so i did stick with dx11 start the game with -dx11 parameter.

NOTE: This is strictly experimental and educational and offline gaming purposes so it might work or might not in the future....

• Download the package, and extract it.
• Run Blackbeard exe and in programs menu run install fake certs, and XAMPP setup.
• Open XAMPP control panel, manually or eigher from blackbeard.
• Either run install_certs_and_hosts.bat or open hosts file, and add to the bottom this two lines: 127.0.0.1 drg.ghostship.dk 127.0.0.1 services.ghostship.dk
• Start up xampp web server, make sure ports 443 and 8443 are works.
• You can setup further configurations in Blackbeard.
• Start game and have fun! It works in multiplayer mode!

Troubleshooting

If you get a red message on the deep dive panels, you need to add the cert file again (both local user and local machine, highest container priority or what), restart machine, and try again the process.

Legal things and disclaimer

This program is written entire in Lazarus IDE and not using ANY code from the original game, its just a tool. This code is perfectly legal undrt the GPL license!

With the usage, you are accepting that i am not responsible for any harm that comes to your account or freetime or any thing that comes from using this program. In theory this is perfectly safe to use, but i am not responsible for your mistakes. If you have doubt of this then do not use it. This is for Strictly educational purposes and thats it.

Rocks and Stones! The webserver uses "443" and "8443" ports. it might be occupied so it is up to you what is using it if you cannot start apache, sorry.

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Deep Rock Galactic defeats FOMO by letting you play old seasons whenever, wherever

As per Ghost Ship Games’ latest announcement, Deep Rock Galactic is about to Falcon Punch any tidbit of FOMO that might’ve once been attached to the game with its next major update. More specifically, old season passes will now be available to play whenever players wish to do so.

This is, of course, phenomenal news from the consumer side of things. The recent Deep Rock Galactic Q&A session on Steam revealed that one of the biggest new features coming to the game with Season 5 will be the Season Selection UI. By visiting the Season Terminal in the hub area, DRG players will be able to choose the “Season Selection” tab to pick any of the game’s prior seasons to play and progress through. Those who want a bit of everything will have the “Vanilla” option ready to go, which will randomly spawn Events and Warnings from all of the game’s seasons.

Deep Rock Galactic will let you choose which season pass to play

Activating a Deep Rock Galactic season essentially means accessing its unique unlocks, events, and progression mechanics. Having said that, turning on the Plaguefall season doesn’t mean you’ll lose anything that came into the game after the fact. Instead, doing so simply grants you access to the Plaguefall reward track and heavily increases the chances of Plaguefall-specific events being active on the mission screen. It’s similar to the “Vanilla” option in that sense, but weighted in a way that makes sense for your active season.

Most importantly, though, players working their way through different, entirely unrelated seasons can still play together just fine: “Everyone can still play with each other, no matter which season they’ve got selected. Because the Mission Terminal reflects the host’s selected season, though, it’s possible that a few individual missions might not show up for other players if they’ve got a different season active than the host. But not to worry – you can still join any lobby on any season through the server browser,” explains the Q&A.

Now, Ghost Ship did say that season-specific assignments will not be available once you’ve activated a prior season. Instead, assignments will remain as-is, with the new Season 5 task coming live this June. The good news, though, is that the game will remember your progress if you partially completed one of the old seasons, allowing you to just keep on trucking from that point onwards.

As Deep Rock Galactic used to add cosmetics and unlockables to the random drop loot pool after a season wrapped up, most players are likely to have some of these old seasons’ cosmetics, which will now be reintroduced into the rewards track. Coming across one of these will just give you a fair amount of credits, which can be “exchanged for goods and services,” as the Q&A puts it.

Neat stuff all around, then. Tied in many ways with Helldivers 2 ‘s handling of season passes . Now, if only other FOMO-bound games, like the Forza franchise , could afford its players something similarly user-friendly, that’d be just grand.

Deep Rock Galactic is rolling out a feature to let you play old seasons

You'll be able to play a wholistic vanilla version of Deep Rock or time travel to game modes past.

Cooperative shooter Deep Rock Galactic will soon let players take its old seasons of stuff out of the closet and take them for a spin. That means the first four rounds of themed extra stuff to do in Deep Rock will be available as their own game modes alongside a separate Vanilla module that can spit out events and game modes from every season—and all of that's coming as part of DRG season 5 this June.

As part of that, every single season's tree of unlockables, their Performance Pass and Cosmetic Tree, will be put back in circulation as part of their own seasonal play mode. If you played that season before, you'll get set back to where you were on that tree.

It's an approach we're seeing more and more limited-time-experience live service games adopt as time goes on: There's a lot of game to play, so why restrict it to a limited amount of time when people might not be able to play it? With the notable exception of genre-leader Destiny 2, of course, which routinely removes big chunks of stuff to keep the game install at a reasonable size.

A cooperative shooter about science-fiction Dwarven miners on a funky-shaped asteroid planet, Deep Rock Galactic has had serious staying power since its 2018 release. Two years of Early Access ended in 2020. and seasonal material has followed ever since—with Season 5 coming this June . The success of Deep Rock Galactic even let developer Ghost Ship create a publishing arm, Ghost Ship Games.

You can find the Seasons Q&A on Steam . More detail on Deep Rock Galactic's season 5 will come in a livestream on April 25 alongside more info on cooperative roguelike spinoff Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core , which plans to enter Early Access later this year.

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Beyond the Milky Way, a Galactic Wall

Astronomers have discovered a vast assemblage of galaxies hidden behind our own, in the “zone of avoidance.”

By Dennis Overbye

Astronomers have discovered that there is a vast wall across the southern border of the local cosmos.

The South Pole Wall, as it is known, consists of thousands of galaxies — beehives of trillions of stars and dark worlds, as well as dust and gas — aligned in a curtain arcing across at least 700 million light-years of space. It winds behind the dust, gas and stars of our own galaxy, the Milky Way, from the constellation Perseus in the Northern Hemisphere to the constellation Apus in the far south. It is so massive that it perturbs the local expansion of the universe.

But don’t bother trying to see it. The entire conglomeration is behind the Milky Way, in what astronomers quaintly call the zone of avoidance.

An international team of astronomers led by Daniel Pomarède of Paris-Saclay University and R. Brent Tully of the University of Hawaii announced this new addition to the local universe on Friday in a paper in Astrophysical Journal . The paper is festooned with maps and diagrams of blobby and stringy features of our local universe as well as a video tour of the South Pole Wall.

It is the latest installment of an ongoing mission to determine where we are in the universe — to fix our neighborhood among the galaxies and the endless voids — and where we are going.

“The surprise for us is that this structure is as big as the Sloan Great Wall and twice as close, and remained unnoticed, being hidden in an obscured sector of the southern sky,” Dr. Pomarède said in an email.

“The discovery is a wonderful poster child for the power of visualizations in research,” Dr. Tully said.

The new wall joins a host of other cosmographic features: arrangements of galaxies, or a lack of them, that astronomers have come to know and love over the last few decades, with names like the Great Wall, the Sloan Great Wall, the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall and the Bootes Void.

The new paper was based on measurements, performed by Dr. Tully and his colleagues, of the distances of 18,000 galaxies as far away as 600 million light-years. By comparison, the most distant objects we can see — quasars and galaxies that formed shortly after the Big Bang — are about 13 billion light years away.

The galaxies in the wall cannot be seen, but Dr. Pomarède and his colleagues were able to observe their gravitational effects by assembling data from telescopes around the world.

In the expanding universe, as described in 1929 by the astronomer Edwin Hubble and confirmed for almost a century, distant galaxies are flying away from us as if they were dots on an inflating balloon; the farther they are, the faster they recede from us, according to a relation called the Hubble law.

That motion away from Earth causes their light to be shifted to longer, redder wavelengths and lower frequencies, like retreating ambulance sirens. Astronomers use this “redshift,” which is easily measured, as a proxy for relative distance in the universe. By measuring the galaxy distances independently, the “Cosmicflows” team, as Dr. Pomarède and his colleagues call themselves, was able to distinguish the motion caused by the cosmic expansion from motions caused by gravitational irregularities.

As a result, they found that the galaxies between Earth and the South Pole Wall are sailing away from us slightly faster than they otherwise should be, by about 30 miles per second, drawn outward by the enormous blob of matter in the wall. And galaxies beyond the wall are moving outward more slowly than they otherwise should be, reined in by the gravitational drag of the wall.

One astonishing aspect of the wall is how big it is compared to the volume that the team was surveying: a contiguous filament of light 1.4 billion light-years long, packed into a cloud maybe 600 million in radius. “There is hardly room in the volume for anything bigger!” Dr. Tully said in an email. “We’d have to anticipate that our view of the filament is clipped; that it extends beyond our survey horizon.”

And yet the South Pole Wall is nearby in cosmological terms. “One might wonder how such a large and not-so-distant structure remained unnoticed,” Dr. Pomarède mused in a statement issued by his university.

But in the expanding universe, there is always something more to see.

On the largest scales, cosmologists attest, the universe should be expanding smoothly, and the galaxies should be evenly distributed. But on smaller, more local scales, the universe appears lumpy and gnarled. Astronomers have found that galaxies are gathered, often by the thousands, in giant clouds called clusters and that these are connected to one another in lacy, luminous chains and filaments to form superclusters extending across billions of light-years. In between are vast deserts of darkness called voids.

From all of this has emerged what some astronomers call our “long address”: We live on Earth, which is in the solar system, which is in the Milky Way galaxy. The Milky Way is part of a small cluster of galaxies called the Local Group, which is on the edge of the Virgo cluster, a conglomeration of several thousand galaxies.

In 2014, Dr. Tully suggested that these features were all connected, as part of a giant conglomeration he called Laniakea — Hawaiian for “open skies” or “immense heaven.” It consists of 100,000 galaxies spread across 500 million light-years.

All this lumpiness has distorted the expansion of the universe. In 1986, a group of astronomers who called themselves the Seven Samurai announced that the galaxies in a huge swath of the sky in the direction of the constellation Centaurus were flying away much faster than the Hubble law predicted, as if being pulled toward something — something the astronomers called the Great Attractor. It was the beginning of something big.

“We now see the Great Attractor as the downtown region of the supercluster that we live in — an overall entity that our team has called the Laniakea Supercluster,” Dr. Tully said. All the different parts of this supercluster are tugging on us, he added.

As a result, the Great Attractor and its relatives are shedding light on another enduring cosmic mystery — namely, where we are headed.

Astronomers discovered in 1965 that space is suffused with microwave radiation, a bath of heat — with a temperature of 2.7 degrees Kelvin, or minus 455 degrees Fahrenheit — left over from the birth of the universe 14 billion years ago. Subsequent observations revealed that this bath is not uniform: It is slightly warmer in one direction, suggesting that we — Earth, our galaxy and the Local Group — are moving through the microwaves, like a goldfish in a fishbowl, at about 400 miles per second in the approximate direction of Centaurus, but aiming far beyond.

Why? What is over there, on the other side of the fishbowl, compelling us? That is the kind of question that would come up in an Arthur C. Clarke novel, where humanity is always gearing up for some definitive expedition around the curve of the universe.

“A major goal in cosmology is to explain this motion,” Dr. Tully said in a series of emails. In theory, the motion arises from the lumpy distribution of matter that grew out of tiny ripples in the density of the early universe.

“The Great Attractor is certainly an important part of the cause of our motion,” Dr. Tully said. “The South Pole Wall also contributes but, again, only in part,” he added, listing more local galaxy clusters and voids. “Every hill and valley in the density distribution makes itself felt.”

Most of that is stuff that we cannot see directly. According to the prevailing theory of a confoundingly preposterous universe, the cosmos contains about five times as much invisible dark matter as luminous atomic matter.

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Nobody knows exactly what dark matter is made of, but according to cosmologists it provides the gravitational scaffolding for the luminous structures in the universe — galaxies, galaxy clusters, superclusters, voids and chains like the South Pole Wall, all connected by spidery filaments in what’s known as the cosmic web. The visible universe of stars and galaxies, cosmologists like to say, is like snow on mountaintops or lights on dark, distant Christmas trees.

But by following the lights and how they are moving, astronomers like Dr. Tully and his cosmographers have now been able to probe the shadows on which they sit: galumphing clouds of mass whose gravity shapes the destiny of the visible cosmos, arranging it into shapes and neighborhoods, walls, valleys and voids.

“It’s just dark matter having its way,” Dr. Tully said.

“We are like swimmers attempting to swim upstream but being carried downstream faster.”

Dennis Overbye joined The Times in 1998, and has been a reporter since 2001. He has written two books: “Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Story of the Scientific Search for the Secret of the Universe” and “Einstein in Love: A Scientific Romance.” More about Dennis Overbye

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Spend some time in one of Moscow’s finest museums.

Subterranean commuting might not be anyone’s idea of a good time, but even in a city packing the war-games treasures and priceless bejeweled eggs of the Kremlin Armoury and the colossal Soviet pavilions of the VDNKh , the Metro holds up as one of Moscow’s finest museums. Just avoid rush hour.

The Metro is stunning and provides an unrivaled insight into the city’s psyche, past and present, but it also happens to be the best way to get around. Moscow has Uber, and the Russian version called Yandex Taxi , but also some nasty traffic. Metro trains come around every 90 seconds or so, at a more than 99 percent on-time rate. It’s also reasonably priced, with a single ride at 55 cents (and cheaper in bulk). From history to tickets to rules — official and not — here’s what you need to know to get started.

A Brief Introduction Buying Tickets Know Before You Go (Down) Rules An Easy Tour

A Brief Introduction

Moscow’s Metro was a long time coming. Plans for rapid transit to relieve the city’s beleaguered tram system date back to the Imperial era, but a couple of wars and a revolution held up its development. Stalin revived it as part of his grand plan to modernize the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 30s. The first lines and tunnels were constructed with help from engineers from the London Underground, although Stalin’s secret police decided that they had learned too much about Moscow’s layout and had them arrested on espionage charges and deported.

The beauty of its stations (if not its trains) is well-documented, and certainly no accident. In its illustrious first phases and particularly after the Second World War, the greatest architects of Soviet era were recruited to create gleaming temples celebrating the Revolution, the USSR, and the war triumph. No two stations are exactly alike, and each of the classic showpieces has a theme. There are world-famous shrines to Futurist architecture, a celebration of electricity, tributes to individuals and regions of the former Soviet Union. Each marble slab, mosaic tile, or light fixture was placed with intent, all in service to a station’s aesthetic; each element, f rom the smallest brass ear of corn to a large blood-spattered sword on a World War II mural, is an essential part of the whole.

The Metro is a monument to the Soviet propaganda project it was intended to be when it opened in 1935 with the slogan “Building a Palace for the People”. It brought the grand interiors of Imperial Russia to ordinary Muscovites, celebrated the Soviet Union’s past achievements while promising its citizens a bright Soviet future, and of course, it was a show-piece for the world to witness the might and sophistication of life in the Soviet Union.

It may be a museum, but it’s no relic. U p to nine million people use it daily, more than the London Underground and New York Subway combined. (Along with, at one time, about 20 stray dogs that learned to commute on the Metro.)

In its 80+ year history, the Metro has expanded in phases and fits and starts, in step with the fortunes of Moscow and Russia. Now, partly in preparation for the World Cup 2018, it’s also modernizing. New trains allow passengers to walk the entire length of the train without having to change carriages. The system is becoming more visitor-friendly. (There are helpful stickers on the floor marking out the best selfie spots .) But there’s a price to modernity: it’s phasing out one of its beloved institutions, the escalator attendants. Often they are middle-aged or elderly women—“ escalator grandmas ” in news accounts—who have held the post for decades, sitting in their tiny kiosks, scolding commuters for bad escalator etiquette or even bad posture, or telling jokes . They are slated to be replaced, when at all, by members of the escalator maintenance staff.

For all its achievements, the Metro lags behind Moscow’s above-ground growth, as Russia’s capital sprawls ever outwards, generating some of the world’s worst traffic jams . But since 2011, the Metro has been in the middle of an ambitious and long-overdue enlargement; 60 new stations are opening by 2020. If all goes to plan, the 2011-2020 period will have brought 125 miles of new tracks and over 100 new stations — a 40 percent increase — the fastest and largest expansion phase in any period in the Metro’s history.

Facts: 14 lines Opening hours: 5 a.m-1 a.m. Rush hour(s): 8-10 a.m, 4-8 p.m. Single ride: 55₽ (about 85 cents) Wi-Fi network-wide

Buying Tickets

• Ticket machines have a button to switch to English.
• You can buy specific numbers of rides: 1, 2, 5, 11, 20, or 60. Hold up fingers to show how many rides you want to buy.
• There is also a 90-minute ticket , which gets you 1 trip on the metro plus an unlimited number of transfers on other transport (bus, tram, etc) within 90 minutes.
• Or, you can buy day tickets with unlimited rides: one day (218₽/ US$4), three days (415₽/US$7) or seven days (830₽/US$15). Check the rates here to stay up-to-date.
• If you’re going to be using the Metro regularly over a few days, it’s worth getting a Troika card , a contactless, refillable card you can use on all public transport. Using the Metro is cheaper with one of these: a single ride is 36₽, not 55₽. Buy them and refill them in the Metro stations, and they’re valid for 5 years, so you can keep it for next time. Or, if you have a lot of cash left on it when you leave, you can get it refunded at the Metro Service Centers at Ulitsa 1905 Goda, 25 or at Staraya Basmannaya 20, Building 1.
• You can also buy silicone bracelets and keychains with built-in transport chips that you can use as a Troika card. (A Moscow Metro Fitbit!) So far, you can only get these at the Pushkinskaya metro station Live Helpdesk and souvenir shops in the Mayakovskaya and Trubnaya metro stations. The fare is the same as for the Troika card.
• You can also use Apple Pay and Samsung Pay.

Rules, spoken and unspoken

No smoking, no drinking, no filming, no littering. Photography is allowed, although it used to be banned.

Stand to the right on the escalator. Break this rule and you risk the wrath of the legendary escalator attendants. (No shenanigans on the escalators in general.)

Get out of the way. Find an empty corner to hide in when you get off a train and need to stare at your phone. Watch out getting out of the train in general; when your train doors open, people tend to appear from nowhere or from behind ornate marble columns, walking full-speed.

Always offer your seat to elderly ladies (what are you, a monster?).

An Easy Tour

This is no Metro Marathon ( 199 stations in 20 hours ). It’s an easy tour, taking in most—though not all—of the notable stations, the bulk of it going clockwise along the Circle line, with a couple of short detours. These stations are within minutes of one another, and the whole tour should take about 1-2 hours.

Start at Mayakovskaya Metro station , at the corner of Tverskaya and Garden Ring,  Triumfalnaya Square, Moskva, Russia, 125047.

1. Mayakovskaya.  Named for Russian Futurist Movement poet Vladimir Mayakovsky and an attempt to bring to life the future he imagined in his poems. (The Futurist Movement, natch, was all about a rejecting the past and celebrating all things speed, industry, modern machines, youth, modernity.) The result: an Art Deco masterpiece that won the National Grand Prix for architecture at the New York World’s Fair in 1939. It’s all smooth, rounded shine and light, and gentle arches supported by columns of dark pink marble and stainless aircraft steel. Each of its 34 ceiling niches has a mosaic. During World War II, the station was used as an air-raid shelter and, at one point, a bunker for Stalin. He gave a subdued but rousing speech here in Nov. 6, 1941 as the Nazis bombed the city above.

Take the 3/Green line one station to:

2. Belorusskaya. Opened in 1952, named after the connected Belarussky Rail Terminal, which runs trains between Moscow and Belarus. This is a light marble affair with a white, cake-like ceiling, lined with Belorussian patterns and 12 Florentine ceiling mosaics depicting life in Belarussia when it was built.

Transfer onto the 1/Brown line. Then, one stop (clockwise) t o:

3. Novoslobodskaya.  This station was designed around the stained-glass panels, which were made in Latvia, because Alexey Dushkin, the Soviet starchitect who dreamed it up (and also designed Mayakovskaya station) couldn’t find the glass and craft locally. The stained glass is the same used for Riga’s Cathedral, and the panels feature plants, flowers, members of the Soviet intelligentsia (musician, artist, architect) and geometric shapes.

Go two stops east on the 1/Circle line to:

4. Komsomolskaya. Named after the Komsomol, or the Young Communist League, this might just be peak Stalin Metro style. Underneath the hub for three regional railways, it was intended to be a grand gateway to Moscow and is today its busiest station. It has chandeliers; a yellow ceiling with Baroque embellishments; and in the main hall, a colossal red star overlaid on golden, shimmering tiles. Designer Alexey Shchusev designed it as an homage to the speech Stalin gave at Red Square on Nov. 7, 1941, in which he invoked Russia’s illustrious military leaders as a pep talk to Soviet soldiers through the first catastrophic year of the war.   The station’s eight large mosaics are of the leaders referenced in the speech, such as Alexander Nevsky, a 13th-century prince and military commander who bested German and Swedish invading armies.

One more stop clockwise to Kurskaya station,  and change onto the 3/Blue  line, and go one stop to:

5. Baumanskaya.   Opened in 1944. Named for the Bolshevik Revolutionary Nikolai Bauman , whose monument and namesake district are aboveground here. Though he seemed like a nasty piece of work (he apparently once publicly mocked a woman he had impregnated, who later hung herself), he became a Revolutionary martyr when he was killed in 1905 in a skirmish with a monarchist, who hit him on the head with part of a steel pipe. The station is in Art Deco style with atmospherically dim lighting, and a series of bronze sculptures of soldiers and homefront heroes during the War. At one end, there is a large mosaic portrait of Lenin.

Stay on that train direction one more east to:

6. Elektrozavodskaya. As you may have guessed from the name, this station is the Metro’s tribute to all thing electrical, built in 1944 and named after a nearby lightbulb factory. It has marble bas-relief sculptures of important figures in electrical engineering, and others illustrating the Soviet Union’s war-time struggles at home. The ceiling’s recurring rows of circular lamps give the station’s main tunnel a comforting glow, and a pleasing visual effect.

Double back two stops to Kurskaya station , and change back to the 1/Circle line. Sit tight for six stations to:

7. Kiyevskaya. This was the last station on the Circle line to be built, in 1954, completed under Nikita Khrushchev’ s guidance, as a tribute to his homeland, Ukraine. Its three large station halls feature images celebrating Ukraine’s contributions to the Soviet Union and Russo-Ukrainian unity, depicting musicians, textile-working, soldiers, farmers. (One hall has frescoes, one mosaics, and the third murals.) Shortly after it was completed, Khrushchev condemned the architectural excesses and unnecessary luxury of the Stalin era, which ushered in an epoch of more austere Metro stations. According to the legend at least, he timed the policy in part to ensure no Metro station built after could outshine Kiyevskaya.

Change to the 3/Blue line and go one stop west.

8. Park Pobedy. This is the deepest station on the Metro, with one of the world’s longest escalators, at 413 feet. If you stand still, the escalator ride to the surface takes about three minutes .) Opened in 2003 at Victory Park, the station celebrates two of Russia’s great military victories. Each end has a mural by Georgian artist Zurab Tsereteli, who also designed the “ Good Defeats Evil ” statue at the UN headquarters in New York. One mural depicts the Russian generals’ victory over the French in 1812 and the other, the German surrender of 1945. The latter is particularly striking; equal parts dramatic, triumphant, and gruesome. To the side, Red Army soldiers trample Nazi flags, and if you look closely there’s some blood spatter among the detail. Still, the biggest impressions here are the marble shine of the chessboard floor pattern and the pleasingly geometric effect if you view from one end to the other.

Keep going one more stop west to:

9. Slavyansky Bulvar.  One of the Metro’s youngest stations, it opened in 2008. With far higher ceilings than many other stations—which tend to have covered central tunnels on the platforms—it has an “open-air” feel (or as close to it as you can get, one hundred feet under). It’s an homage to French architect Hector Guimard, he of the Art Nouveau entrances for the Paris M é tro, and that’s precisely what this looks like: A Moscow homage to the Paris M é tro, with an additional forest theme. A Cyrillic twist on Guimard’s Metro-style lettering over the benches, furnished with t rees and branch motifs, including creeping vines as towering lamp-posts.

Stay on the 3/Blue line and double back four stations to:

10. Arbatskaya. Its first iteration, Arbatskaya-Smolenskaya station, was damaged by German bombs in 1941. It was rebuilt in 1953, and designed to double as a bomb shelter in the event of nuclear war, although unusually for stations built in the post-war phase, this one doesn’t have a war theme. It may also be one of the system’s most elegant: Baroque, but toned down a little, with red marble floors and white ceilings with gilded bronze c handeliers.

Jump back on the 3/Blue line  in the same direction and take it one more stop:

11. Ploshchad Revolyutsii (Revolution Square). Opened in 1938, and serving Red Square and the Kremlin . Its renowned central hall has marble columns flanked by 76 bronze statues of Soviet heroes: soldiers, students, farmers, athletes, writers, parents. Some of these statues’ appendages have a yellow sheen from decades of Moscow’s commuters rubbing them for good luck. Among the most popular for a superstitious walk-by rub: the snout of a frontier guard’s dog, a soldier’s gun (where the touch of millions of human hands have tapered the gun barrel into a fine, pointy blade), a baby’s foot, and a woman’s knee. (A brass rooster also sports the telltale gold sheen, though I am told that rubbing the rooster is thought to bring bad luck. )

Now take the escalator up, and get some fresh air.

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Moscow Nightlife • A Complete Guide

Moscow is the capital of Russia and is one of the most populated cities in the country. Apart from traditional architecture, the city has been modernized to keep up with time. The nightlife of Moscow is exceptionally vibrant. You can find several casinos, nightclubs, and bars in the city. If you were planning a trip to Moscow and were confused about what during the night, don’t worry! Here are some of the best night-time experiences that you must try in Moscow!

When can you experience the nightlife in Moscow?

Although the bars and nightclubs are open daily, it is most vibrant on Saturdays and Fridays. Moscow residents like to work hard, and only on these days, they let their guard down. You can party for 12 hours straight on these days. There is almost no crowd on the other days of the week. Usually, the nightlife of Moscow begins at 11 am. You can catch your dinner early to prepare for all the partying. Most of the parties in clubs go on till 3 am. But the fun doesn’t end there. You can look for after-party clubs after that. 

Best bars in Moscow

Moscow bars are extremely lively. From beautiful women to authentic drinks – the bars in Moscow have a lot to offer. In recent times, several establishments have popped up. If you are a tourist, it can be difficult for you to pick out the right one. To clear your confusion, you can refer to the below-mentioned list of bars for your night-out in this city: 

This joint is not extremely glamorous and yet, is one of the most popular bars in Moscow. Kamchatka is a beer bar that has a vintage Soviet feel to it. The décor of this bar makes it look like a cafeteria and adds a dash of old-world charm to it. It is one of the most affordable bars in Moscow. Most locals tend to hang out here. The menu is simple yet hearty. If you want to avoid noisy places and enjoy a drink in peace, this is where you need to be in Moscow.

• I Like Wine

The bar is appropriately named, as you can get an extensive collection of wine at this joint. Wines are collected from all parts of the world and delivered to the customers at this bar. You can even get a couple of cocktails on the menu. But mostly wine lovers visit this pub. This wine bar also has a good food menu. The prices are extremely pocket-friendly, and you can eat on a budget at this place.

• Solyanka Bar

It is one of the indie bars in Moscow. The party atmosphere of this bar is infectious. Located in an old mansion, it serves fusion cuisine during the daytime. But at night, it becomes the hippest joint in town. The drinks are expensive but worth it. The DJs play the latest hits to keep up the spirits of the partygoers. The place lives up to its indie bar reputation as the décor is extremely rustic. The brick walls, exposed bulbs, and second-hand furniture make it a go-to spot for all the hipsters in Moscow.

You can always find students in Strelka as it is one of the popular bars in the city. The view from this bar is breathtaking as it overlooks the Moscow River. The 70s inspire the décor. It is aesthetic and yet comfortable. Moreover, the cocktail menu at this bar is fantastic. The concoctions are prepared by using local ingredients. Perhaps this is the reason why bar hoppers prefer this bar over others. If you are lucky, you will be able to witness one of the weekly concerts and events held here. 

If you want to experience something vintage, this is the place you should visit. Terma Bar is one of the oldest bars in the city. You can find over 150 alcoholic beverages at this bar. The bartenders are incredibly skilled and put up a show with fire while they prepare your drinks. There is an adventurous food menu at the club which serves Uzbek cuisine. Moreover, the bar is open 24/7, so you can drop by at any time.

Do you hate bars where the music is so loud that you cannot talk to anyone else? If you do, you can visit ‘Noor.’ This electro bar is located on Tverskaya street. It is incredibly cozy, and the music’s volume levels are kept in check to promote conversations. On weekends, you will be able to attend live music events of national and international artists. The décor of this club is chic and is an ideal place to grab a couple of drinks with family and friends.

• City Space Bar and Lounge

The City Space Bar and Club provides a stunning view of Moscow. This bar is located on the 34 th floor of a hotel. It is highly exclusive, and only those who can afford to spend big bucks visit this bar. The drinks and food are not cheap at City Space Bar and Lounge. However, it is worth it!

• Mendeleev Bar

This bar might be hard to locate as it is built behind a Chinese Shop. But you should put into finding the bar as if it is worth the experience. As soon as you enter this place, you will be able to see a dark cellar. You can find a long list of alcoholic beverages at this place. Moreover, if you are lucky, you will be able to witness the occasional jazz concerts hosted in this secret bar.

• Chinese Pilot Jao Dao (Kitaysky Lyotchk Dzhao-Da)

If you want to avoid the glitz and glamour, Kitaysky Lyotchk Dzhao-Da is the perfect place for you. The décor of this bar is extremely rustic. The youth of Moscow mostly visits it because it is incredibly affordable. You can always find new artists and musicians hang out here. On almost all days of the week, you will be able to witness live music performances at Kitaysky Lyotchk Dzhao-Da. From Punk Rock to Afro beats – different kinds of artists like to perform at this joint. Moreover, you can find some of the most affordable yet best Russian wines and beers. If you feel hungry, you can try out their Russian cuisine consisting of traditional Russian soups, blinis, and salads.

Located in the former Krasny Okytyabr Factory building, Gypsy is a brightly lit, colorful bar in Moscow. There is an indoor as well as an outdoor sitting arrangement. You can sit on the terrace on the deck chairs and enjoy the beautiful view of the Moscow River. There are over 300 disco balls used to light up this place. The drinks are affordable, and you will have a good time at this place.

Go on a night tour in Moscow

Moscow is a city that is rich in terms of culture and heritage. If you are not a party person, you can ditch the usual options and book yourself a seat in one of the Moscow tour events. Several companies offer different night-time tour packages for tourists in Moscow. But why should you depend on a guide when you can roam around on your own? A food tour will help you to discover the unconventional spots in the city as well. It can be difficult for a tourist to find out about Khitrovka and Kitay Gorod on his/her own.  Try to look for tours which take you to ‘Annushka’ – the infamous former restaurant on rails in this city.

Best nightclubs in Moscow

After you have had a drink or two, you can head over to the latest dance club. There are several options for dance clubs in Moscow. People usually party till the wee hours of w night on weekends. Here are some of the best ones:

It is a highly spacious dance club that allows you to dance freely. It is built using several levels. The audio system of this club is top-notch, which is perhaps why top Russian Bands perform at this joint. The drinks are excellent as the bartender has access to some of the best alcohol in the country. Moreover, you can get good finger food to complement your drinks as well.

• Vermeil Club

As soon as you reach the club, you will be greeted by the bright lights at the entrance. Vermeil Club is located right across the river and is near Kremlin. The club has a very friendly atmosphere, and the service is top-notch. If you like to try different kinds of alcohol, this is the right place for you. You will get tons of options when it comes to beers, cocktails, and wines.

Moreover, the food is cooked perfectly and presented elegantly at Vermel Club. Since it is a dance club, you will find some of the best DJs in Moscow play at this joint. It is the perfect place to party in this city.

A lot of international as well as Russian artists play at ’16 Tons’. Located in Presnenskiy Val, it is one of the best places to dance all night long. There is a fully functional brewery at this place, and hence, you need to try out their assorted beer collection. Named after a Merle Travis song, this place is ideal for all the music lovers who like to party.

• Looking Rooms

Want to dance till the wee hours of the night in Moscow? Look no further! Looking Room is the place for you. All the regular party goers in Moscow visit this place. This club is open till midnight on every other working day. But on Fridays and Saturdays, it remains open for its customers till 6 am. The place is extremely spacious and can host around 800 people at the same time. You can find the DJs at this joint play the best House music in Moscow during one of the epic parties of ‘Looking Room.’

• Night Flight

If you are looking for something exclusive, this is the place you should be. It is not easy to get entry to this fancy nightclub in Moscow. You need to be extremely wealthy to gain access to this club. Why? Because it was built for VIPs. Located on Tverskaya Street, it is a place if you want to experience something extravagant in Moscow.

• London Night Club

Located in Prospekt Vernadskogo, the London Night club is visited by both tourists as well as locals. The staff does not discriminate between the tourists and the Russians. As long as you are ready to spend, you will get good service. The cocktails at this joint are one of the best in the city. The bar is filled with good-looking men and women. Hence, your chances of meeting someone new are quite high at London Night Club. 

This place is always bustling with energy. The Soho Rooms have been in the business for years. It was closed down in 2017 for renovations. But it is back with a bang. The club is sprawled across three floors. There is a pool as well as a bar at this club. The parties hosted by Soho Rooms go on till at least 4 am. If you like commercial music and lively places, you should pay a visit to this club.

The only word that will come to your mind when you see this club is ‘posh.’ Club Oblaka is one of Moscow’s extravagant, high-end nightclubs. Mostly the club plays Russian Pop. Unlike any other club, the party doesn’t only occur on Fridays and Saturdays. Only the rich can afford to visit this club, and they like to party on all the days of the week. The VIP service available at this club is top-notch, and you should visit this club if you can spend a lot.

LGBTQIA bar and clubs in Moscow

Although none of the bars can discriminate against the LGBTQIA community, there are a few unique hangout spots for the community. You can meet new people as well as enjoy yourself with your old buddies at:

The Boyz club is a popular LGBTQIA nightclub in Moscow. Mostly the youth of the city visit this highly energetic joint. The place is extremely spacious. It has around three bars, one lounge bar, and two dance floors. If you do not enjoy dancing, you can start using karaoke equipment instead. The parties at this place are to die for. Boyz Club stays open till 10 am on weekends. The parties that are hosted at this place are wild. You can find several music events as well as drag shows at Boyz Club regularly. 

It is probably the most famous and oldest LGBTQIA bar in Moscow. Propaganda opened its doors for its customers back in the year 1997. It functions as a café in the morning where you can get the best cuisines in town. But at night, the whole look of this place changes. The LGBTQIA night events are hosted mostly on Saturdays. It is a place where everyone feels accepted. The staff is extremely friendly and quick with orders. 

If you want to witness cabaret shows, this place should be on your itinerary.  The energy of this club is infectious. Despite the decors being changed almost every year, the bar has held onto its authenticity. The warm and comfortable atmosphere can make anyone feel at home. The travesty shows are held on every Friday and Saturday. These shows begin at 1.30 am and go on all night long. 

• Central Station

Central Station is another decent LGBTQIA club in the city. There are about two dance floors with very different kinds of vibes. You can call your entire gang to their karaoke club and have a gala time. During the summer, you can hang around on the terrace. Drag shows are a regular event at Central Station. The prices are reasonable, and the staff is extremely efficient at this place. 

Located in Pokrovsky Boulevard, Mono Bar is a famous hangout spot for people from the LGBTQIA community. The club was started in 2014 and, since then, has gained a lot of regular customers. Mostly you will be able to hear European as well as Russian music at this club. There is a balcony which is the smoking area. If you want to meet more people, it is ideal for visiting this place after midnight on Fridays and Saturdays. 

After-party clubs in Moscow

The Russians like to party hard, and hence, the party goes on till dawn. After the party ends around 1-3 am in certain clubs, you can head over to a couple of after-party venues to have fun. Here are some of the best ones in Moscow:

People who party at high-end clubs tend to visit Miks for the after-party. There is plenty of alcohol for you to get wasted. The DJs at this joint mostly like to play Tech and House. Do not worry about the price, as the cover charge is minimal at Miks. The place is dimly lit and is the perfect place to end the night.

Gazgolder offers a more Berlin like after-party atmosphere to its guests. The cover charge is a bit more than the other clubs, but it is worth it. The décor of this place is trendy and creative. The place is huge, and you can sit in the outdoor area during the summer months. On some days, the after-party might continue till the next afternoon. All in all, if you want to party like an animal, this is the place you should visit. 

Voda is an ultra-hip joint where you can head over for the after-party. It is a small yet vibrant place where you can get good cocktails. The décor of this club is incredibly quirky. You have to ring the doorbell to get inside the club. The walls are made up of exposed concrete. The main venue downstairs is properly lit. Lime-stone staircase, wooden beams, and bar stools give the place a vintage vibe. The DJs mostly play Electronic music at this pub. One of the most exciting features of this club is that there are no menus. It would be best to inform the bartender what you want to drink, and he will serve it to you. Do not worry, as all the mixologists can converse in English. 

This after-party venue makes you feel like you have been transported to Berlin. The interiors of this place have an industrial feel to them. During the day, this acts as a bike repair shop. But at night, you can party at Entuziast till late at night. Mostly the hipsters tend to party at this place. The bar is made up of metal, and you can see racing flags all over the place. You can get a wide array of choices when it comes to beers and cider. Craft beer is extremely popular at this joint.  During the summers, you can sit outside on the beach chairs arranged on the deck. The snacks are light and ideal for eating with a pint of beer. 

There are so many different things to do in Moscow during the night. Whether you want to grab a couple of drinks or dance into the night with your friends – you will find a spot for yourself in this city. It is advisable to try out almost all the places mentioned above when you are visiting Moscow. The Russian party life is different from any other culture. They believe in working hard and partying even harder. They mostly like to party when they are done with their work for the week. If you want to experience that culture, you must prepare yourself to party till the sun comes up. It will be one of the most memorable experiences of your life.

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