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Credits roll for Moscow's Soviet-era cinemas as new ones replace them

China Daily | Updated: 2019-01-08 07:05

MOSCOW - Scattered throughout the city's outlying neighborhoods, Moscow's Soviet-era cinemas have for decades served as the center of communities.

With names like "Mars" and "The Diamond", the cinemas were mostly built in the 1960s and 70s during a Soviet film boom, offering cheaper tickets than their counterparts in shopping centers.

Now - as part of a wider plan changing the face of the Russian capital - almost 40 of them are being turned into modern glass complexes.

Credits roll for Moscow's Soviet-era cinemas as new ones replace them

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