Theatre, music, and art are important in the city's life. Of the many museums and galleries, Moscow Kremlin, the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts , the State Tretyakov Gallery and the Andrei Rubliov museum are especially notable. Tretyakov Gallery and A.Rubliov museum exibits a great collection of Russian icons and paintings. Moscow is the centre of the country's rail network, on which freight transport is heavily dependent. Trunk rail lines radiate from the city in all directions to major Russian population and industrial centres, to Ukraine, Belarus, and eastern Europe, and to Central Asia.
Passenger trains connect to destinations throughout Russia and Europe.
Moscow is also a major river port and is served by the Moscow Canal. The Volga's various canals link Moscow to all the seas surrounding European Russia. Moscow is located at 55.55'of northern latitude and 37.37' to the east of the Greenwich's meridian, in the centre of the East-European plain in the zone of mixed forests. The city is intersected by the Moscow river, which takes a number of tributaries between the Oka and the Volga. The largest of the tributaries are the Yausa and Setun'.