Moscow Nightclubs

[Chris]

Propaganda.

One of the hip places in Moscow, great music, nice people, and delicious food.

Mondays and Wednesdays are downtempo,
Tuesdays – hiphop,
Thursdays through Saturdays – house,
Sundays – gay party. Open until 6 am daily.

Address: B. Zlatoustinskiy pereulok (metro Kitai Gorod), # 7. tel. (095) 924-5732

[Chris]

Djao Da (Kitaiski Letchik).

The best place to hear quality live Russian music. Very popular and quite cozy.

Address: Lubyanskiy proezd #25/1, tel. (095) 924-56-11. (metro: Kitay-gorod)

[Chris]

Kult.

Chillout place. Not the best choice if you want a big night out, but a perfect place to go out with a friend and have a quiet evening together. African food, downtempo music, cinema showing alternative films.

Fridays and Saturday evenings are quite dancy.
Opened mon-wed,
sun midday-midnight.
thu-sat midday — 6 am

Address: Yauzskaya ulitsa, #5, tel. (095) 917-5706 (metro: Novokuznetskaya, and then take tram #39, or #A and get off at the second stop, which is Yauzskie vorota)

[Chris]

Fabrique.

A huge dance club, especially good on Fridays and Saturdays. Mostly house music, at times arrogant face control, but perhaps one of the best places if you want loud and lots of people.

Opened from midday till 6 am

Address: Sadovnicheskaya st., #33 (metro Novokuznetskaya), tel.: (095) 953-6576.

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Propaganda.
One of the hip places in Moscow, great music, nice people, and delicious food.

Have you actually been there?

The "feis control" is really stringent.  Nothing pisses me off more that to make plans to go someplace and to be feised at the door.  Happens quite often at Propaganda.  The place to be in Moscow on Thursday nights.   

:-)
Brad

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Djao Da (Kitaiski Letchik).

The best place to hear quality live Russian music. Very popular and quite cozy.

Sorry, but I wasn't overly impressed.  Easily the most dyke-y crowd in Moscow.  Bartenders often have hard time making anything more complex than a shot. 

:-)
Brad

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Kult.
Chillout place. Not the best choice if you want a big night out, but a perfect place to go out with a friend and have a quiet evening together. African food, downtempo music, cinema showing alternative films.

Great DJ's and excellent late night music.  Feis control can be problematic.  Known throughout Moscow as a great place to take a young date that you don't want to spend too much money on but still impress her.

:-)
Brad

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Fabrique.
A huge dance club, especially good on Fridays and Saturdays. Mostly house music, at times arrogant face control, but perhaps one of the best places if you want loud and lots of people.

Target-rich environment for single chicks.  Feis control usually not a problem before midnight. 

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Brad

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THE REAL McCOY

Has taken over from the Hungry Duck as the absolute king of Moscow drinking and debauchery.   Hot young deyvs offer partons the closest thing to a guarantee this side of Night Flight.  Check it out at your own risk :

Kudrinskaya pl 1 phone 255-41-44

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Brad

[Chris]

Propaganda.
One of the hip places in Moscow, great music, nice people, and delicious food.

Have you actually been there?

The "feis control" is really stringent.  Nothing pisses me off more that to make plans to go someplace and to be feised at the door.  Happens quite often at Propaganda.  The place to be in Moscow on Thursday nights.   

:-)
Brad

Went once on a Thursday evening, but didn't actually get in, just too many trying, ( any other night would probably have been ok?) extremely busy and to be honest I wasn't too worried as the music they play on Thursdays is all House type which I hate anyway, was just going for the experience really. decided to go for a meal instead.

I was talking to some younger guys who go fairly regularly and they told me it didn't get going until after midnight. But they said it was always too busy really and the dancefloor was only available after midnight when they removed the tables so people could dance. I seem to remember the entrance fee was cheap though at around 150 rubles.  Apparantly the guys said they usually stay until around 5am or 6am, not my scene really. Also you have to be pretty smartly dressed from what I saw.

[Chris]

Propaganda

Grand Cru 2007 Club Tour at Propaganda

Thursday, 26 July 2007 
Time /  11:00 - close

Line-up /
Patrick Chardronnet (live), Alex Flitsch

[Chris]

The Hungry Duck

What are people saying about the Hungry Duck???

"One of the Hottest Clubs in the World"
Rolling Stone Magazine

"The Wildest Bar in Moscow"
British Airways Inflight Magazine

"The Craziest Bar in the World"
The Washington Post

"You Get Laid Even if You Don’t Want to"
Living Here Magazine

"The Most Notorious Bar In The Northern Hemisphere"
The Exile

"A Moscow Institution: Fun, Loud, and Kicking"
Moscow Times

"Club Strips Away Russians' Anxiety"
USA Today

It's heyday was the 1990's

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VOODOO LOUNGE

Great place to start the evening off before midnight.  Voodoo packs a crowd early and the drinks are cheap.  Lots of good-looking deyvs.  Low feis control.  Lots of dancing.  Place clears out early as the partons clear out for other clubs and discos.  Definitely a place you should visit.

Sredny Tishinsky Pereulok 5/7
phone:  253 23 23

:-)
Brad

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The Hungry Duck
It's heyday was the 1990's

That's an absolute fact.  The place is now only a shell of what it once was.  I quit going in 2005 because it was too depressing and I wanted my memories to be of what it was, not what it had become. 

My first visit was in April 2000.  WHAT A GREAT PLACE!  Girl partons (not hired workers) dancing topless on the bars.  Periodic shows with beefcake men dragging drunken deyvs on the stage and stripping them naked for simulated sex acts.  No dance floor so people dance EVERYWHERE.  Perfectly acceptable to feel up any girl in the place.  I actually had a girl I met in the bar that first night perform oral sex on me in one of the booths.  The place was "the wild west".

Those wild nightlife times of the financial crisis days are long gone and never to return.  Because I was good friends with the manager (Johnny) I was allowed to bring in a camera and have some pictures if you'd like to see them?

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Brad

[Chris]

I was allowed to bring in a camera and have some pictures if you'd like to see them?

Sure post them in the photo galleries if they are decent
 
PS I have seen some that are not really appropriate for here though

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[Sure post them in the photo galleries if they are decent

define "decent"   :

:-)
Brad

[Chris]

The Hungry Duck Facts 1995 - 1999

When opened on December 8, 1995, offered 13 types of draft beer and a full restaurant menu; by closing, it offered one type of draft beer from Penza and no food
* Four of original owners have died
* Doug Steele took over March 15, 1996.
* 8 bullets fired inside bar, 5 in the ceiling, 3 in the floor
* over 1,000,000 pints of beer consumed
* Over 1,500,000 customers served
* Police opened 256 criminal cases involving the Hungry Duck
* 43 television networks filmed inside the bar, and three motion pictures shot film in the Duck
* More than 600 magazine and newspaper articles written on the Duck
* Over 2,000 reported lost passports
* Eight police raids
* Two bomb threats
* One kidnapping attempt on owner
* Five death threats to the owner
* Over 250 known "physical altercations" took place inside bar
* 225,000 women visited Ladies' Night since its inception in January, 1998
* Used up 445 bar stools
* Employed two full-time carpenters
* Ambulance called in over 40 times to treat customers who had fallen from bar counter
* Most arrests by police in one night: 79 on suspicion of narcotics. All subsequently released without charge
* Yeltsin's wife visited in October 1996 with two Orthodox priests. She did not get on the bar counter and dance
* Most customers in one day: 1,510
* Paid over $1,000,000 in rent
* Paid over $200,000 in "favors" in order to "achieve permission to remain open"
* Only bar ever denounced in a national parliament
* Most ladies on one Ladies' Night: 920
* 30 separate attempts by non-police structures to close the bar
* Most police involved in a single raid: 52
* Number of Russians fired for stealing: 124
* Number of foreigners fired for stealing: 9, including 4 Americans, 1 Brit and 1 Irish
* Average number of bare-breasted customers on Ladies' Night at any given time: 15

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The Duck was actually founded by a mixed group of Chechen and Kalmyk businessmen.

You don't hear much about Chechen-Kalmyk joint ventures. And for good reason: four of those guys are dead now. The fourth, a Chechen named Roman, died fairly recently. He had just finished doing three years in jail for murder.

[Chris]

[Sure post them in the photo galleries if they are decent

define "decent"   :

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Brad

Not pornographic!

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The Hungry Duck Facts

* 43 television networks filmed inside the bar, and three motion pictures shot film in the Duck

I met Harrison Ford there one night.  He was in Moscow filming K-19 The Widowmaker at the time.  Said he heard about the place and wanted to visit.  Just walked in without security and was at the bar ordering a beer.

* Average number of bare-breasted customers on Ladies' Night at any given time: 15

Absolutely true in the "good old days".  Now you'll find none.

:-(
Brad

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Not pornographic!

Define pornographic   

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Brad

[Chris]

I guess Brad you will find clubs like this all round the world at times, they come and go, they all seem to have a moment in time that is just right time right place, we have had them here in the UK over the years, but this one was pretty notorious even amongst those that had a reputation for being darn right bad!

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I guess Brad you will find clubs like this all round the world at times, they come and go, they all seem to have a moment in time that is just right time right place, we have had them here in the UK over the years, but this one was pretty notorious even amongst those that had a reputation for being darn right bad!

Have you ever been there?

:-)
Brad

[Chris]

Not pornographic!

Define pornographic   

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Brad

Obscene writings, drawings, photographs, or the like, esp. those having little or no artistic merit,

Sexually explicit pictures, writing, or other material whose primary purpose is to cause sexual arousal. Lurid or sensational material is that OK

[Chris]

Hungry Duck - Moscow

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Obscene writings, drawings, photographs, or the like, esp. those having little or no artistic merit, Sexually explicit pictures, writing, or other material whose primary purpose is to cause sexual arousal. Lurid or sensational material is that OK

Damn you've cut my available photographs by 75%.  I will assume that naked breasts are ok if dancing on the bar.  It will give you the contex of what it was like to be a bar customer back in those days.  No photos of sumulated sex acts.  Am I clear to post?

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Brad