Moscow Central Post Office, Postal headquarters in Basmanny District, Moscow, Russia

Moscow Central Post Office is the main processing facility in the Basmanny District, managing domestic and international mail flows from its central location. The building contains multiple service windows, parcel handling areas, and specialized zones for international shipping.

The Moscow Post Office traces its origin to the Special Postal Office created in 1700, though some researchers date its start to 1711, after the Battle of Poltava. On 19 February 1725 the Moscow Post Yard was officially renamed a postamt, with Wolfgang (Vladimir) Pestel as its head. Its premises were damaged in the Trinity fire of 1737, after which the Senate gave the office a house in the German Quarter that had belonged to Admiral Cornelis Cruys.

Muscovites nicknamed the early post yard the "German", "overseas" or "treasury" post, either because it handled foreign mail or because of its foreign staff. The complex at Myasnitskaya Street and Chistoprudny Boulevard, with its arched bays and glazed pitched roof, was listed as a regional cultural heritage site in 2003.

The facility operates around the clock and is located near Turgenevskaya metro station for convenient access. You can use services like registered mail, telegrams, and international shipping at the multiple service windows.

The post office's birthday was long celebrated on 22 October, the date of the first surviving entry in its archive books from 1722; earlier records are thought to have burned in a fire. In 1725 the yard was formally renamed a postamt, with Wolfgang (Vladimir) Pestel appointed its head.