Russia

The Grand Hotel Europe opens on Nevsky Prospect

The Balchug opens in Moscow facing the Kremlin across the river

The National opens opposite the Kremlin

The Metropol opens in Moscow, its façade carrying Vrubel's mosaic

The Astoria opens in St Petersburg, by Fyodor Lidval

The Hotel Ukraina opens in Moscow on 25 May with 1,026 rooms — the largest hotel in Europe, on ground that used to flood Hotel Ukraina — Radisson Collection Moscow

Gilbert Bécaud releases “Nathalie” in May, naming a Café Pushkin in Moscow that does not exist; French visitors spend the next thirty-five years looking for it Café Pushkin

Gilbert Bécaud sings of a Café Pouchkine in Nathalie — a place that does not exist Café Pushkin

Moscow-City is approved on a former quarry; three years later the money runs out and the project is frozen for a decade Moscow-City, Moscow

reported God Nisanov and Zarakh Iliev, from the same home town, found Kievskaya Ploshchad in Moscow Kievskaya Ploshchad Estate, Moscow

Café Pushkin opens on Tverskoy Boulevard on 4 June, and Bécaud sings at the opening of the place his own song invented Café Pushkin

Andrey Dellos opens Café Pushkin on 4 June, building a place that had existed only in a French song since 1964 Andrey Dellos

Andrey Makhov becomes chef of Café Pushkin at its opening Andrey Makhov

Café Pushkin opens on Tverskoy Boulevard on 4 June; Bécaud sings Nathalie at the opening Café Pushkin

Gorobiy opens Shambala on Kuznetsky Most — the start of Moscow's glamour decade Dяgilev

The Taleon Imperial opens in St Petersburg in the Eliseev mansion

Lapin and Sergeev open the Japanese restaurant Ginza in St Petersburg Ginza Project

Verba Mayr opens in Austria, applying the Mayr method commercially

Dяgilev opens on the Shchukin stage in the Hermitage Garden Dяgilev

Dяgilev opens in spring on the Shchukin stage in the Hermitage Garden — a nightclub built as a theatre, with royal boxes over the dance floor and no beer at the bars Dяgilev

Dяgilev burns on 7 February; about 1,500 m² of the historic Shchukin stage is lost and nobody is killed — ⚑ the club had already been due to close that April Dяgilev

Dяgilev burns down on 7 February and is never rebuilt Dяgilev

Rodina opens at Sochi Rodina Hotels & Resorts (RU)

Aras Agalarov opens Crocus City Hall, having paid to build the metro station that serves it Crocus City, Moscow

Zarkov and Zaturinsky open White Rabbit in Moscow with Vladimir Mukhin White Rabbit Family

Altay Village opens on Lake Teletskoye

Cosmos Collection opens at Bodrum Cosmos Collection

Building begins at Nagatinskaya Poima on 17 March; it halts in early 2017 for want of money and restarts after refinancing Dream Island, Moscow

MAYRVEDA opens at Kislovodsk, taking the Mayr protocol to a Russian spa town

Green Flow opens at Rosa Khutor

White Rabbit reaches 13th in the World's 50 Best — the highest Russian placing White Rabbit Family

Dream Island opens on 29 February — roofed against the Moscow winter, and carrying none of the DreamWorks characters it was conceived around Dream Island, Moscow

Brasserie Мост closes on Kuznetsky Most, ending the house that began as the club The Most The Most

Mantera opens in Russia Mantera

claimed Manzherok opens in the Altai ⚑ watch entry, admitted on the register's own terms

claimed Anton Pinsky takes the Dovlatov at Esto-Sadok and reopens it as the Pinskiy Boutique Hotel — 39 rooms, with Loona on the ground floor ⚑ year of reopening to confirm

Novikov reopens the address as Brasserie Kuznetsky Most, with Kaifuso in the old club basement The Most