Synod Printing House

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  • Address
    Nikolskaya ul 15, city centre
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  • Transport
    underground rail: Ploshchad Revolyutsii

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Lonely Planet review

This is where Ivan Fyodorov reputedly produced Russia's first printed book, The Apostle , in 1563. (You can see the man himself at Old Fields). Over a century later, in 1703, the first Russian newspaper Vedomosti was also printed here. Up until the early 19th century, Kitai Gorod was something of a printing centre, home to 26 out of Moscow's 31 bookshops at the time.