Sokolniki

Sokolniki is a district of the Eastern Administrative Okrug of the federal metropolis of Moscow positioned inside the north-east corner of the city. Sokolniki derives its name from the word "COKO” sokol, which means falcon in view of the Tsar's falcon hunting grounds which had been positioned there, commonly at the territory of the present-day Sokolniki Park. The district also provides the name for certainly one of its metro stations: Sokolniki Metro Station. The district is domestic to the FC and HC Spartak Moscow.

The latter performs its games within the Sokolniki Sports Palace positioned within Sokolniki Park. In 2006, after 20 years of creation and changing ownership, a twenty-storey inn ultimately opened overlooking the Sokolniki metro station and Sokolniki Square. This lodge is now the Holiday Inn Sokolniki. In Tolstoy's War and Peace, Pierre fights a duel in Sokolniki. The Elite House in Sokolniki will soon be one among the biggest homes inside the international with DuPont Tyvek used as a climate and water barrier.