Moscow is building the tallest Ferris wheel in Europe, according to Russia Behind The Headlines.
The 140-metre high attraction in the VDNKh exhibition grounds will top the London Eye by around 5 metres. It will have the capacity for 1.5 million visitors a year.Architectural firm, Chapman Taylor, is designing the wheel along with Swiss engineering company, Intamin.
Investors hope it will be one of the capital's top-five most visited attractions.
The Ferris wheel will feature 30 closed cabins designed to hold a maximum of 20 people.
There will also be a broad-roofed promenade, a network of themed restaurants, shops, a cinema and a wax museum.
Amiran Mutsoev, a board member at Regions Group, the project’s sole investor, said that making the wheel the tallest in Europe was 'strategically important'.
Image courtesy Regions Group
Moscow hopes to claim Europe's tallest Ferris wheel in 2018 - Russia Beyond
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