Moscow

Moscow is the capital city and the most populous federal subject of Russia, and was the capital city of the Soviet Union. The city is a major political, economic, cultural and scientific center in Russia and Europe.
==History==
===World War II===
====HYDRA Desertion====
In 1943, Johann Schmidt and his HYDRA division went rogue, separating themselves from the Nazi regime. According to one of HYDRA's maps, Moscow was among the European cities planned to be invaded following the destruction of the United States of America.
===United States Embassy===
Jack Thompson contacted a man who met in primary school that had been destined to the United States embassy in Moscow, in order to search for Leet Brannis. Thompson's contact discovered that Brannis was a member of the Soviet 478th Rifle Division during World War II, and that the entire battalion was wiped out during the battle of Finow in Germany. The contact informed Thompson that Brannis was declared deceased in 1944 with the rest of his battalion.
Thompson contacted him again to determine if the man whose hotel room key was found near the Brannis' corpse was also Russian, and the contact managed to identify him as Sasha Demidov, another member of the Soviet 478th Rifle Division that was declared deceased but turned out to have survived.
===Birth of Whiplash===
Anton Vanko settled in Moscow after being deported from the United States in 1967 accused of spying and sent to Siberia imprisoned. His son, Ivan Vanko, settled with him after he served fifteen years in prison for selling plutonium to Pakistan.
Anton died years later in extreme poverty, blaming his situation on Howard Stark and his family. Ivan then created his Whiplash Armor using his father's blueprints for an Arc Reactor, as a weapon to be used to kill Howard's son, Tony Stark. Upon finishing the armor, Ivan met an agent of the Ten Rings to obtain a forged ID and travel documents for confronting Stark in Monaco.
===Aborted S.H.I.E.L.D. Mission===
In 1989, Hank Pym was assigned by S.H.I.E.L.D. to go to Moscow. However, Pym instead took a detour through S.H.I.E.L.D.'s research and development laboratories, uncovering Howard Stark's attempt to replicate the Pym Particles formula. Pym was furious about the attempt to duplicate his work, and resigned from S.H.I.E.L.D. on the spot instead of heading to Moscow to complete his assignment.
===Black Widow's Mission===
Natasha Romanoff was tasked by S.H.I.E.L.D. to go undercover in Moscow and approach Mikhail Fjodorov to interrogate him about missing bootleg Stark Industries tech from Hammer Industries. During her mission, Sofia killed Fjodorov and blamed Romanoff as the culprit. Natasha was forced to flee to the hotel she was staying, while the began cordoning the area of the assassination and emitting an arrest warrant for Romanoff.
While Phil Coulson began setting an extraction in , Romanoff was attacked at her hotel by four mercenaries from Eaglestar hired by Sofia, who was carrying a SIM card so that Romanoff could contact her after defeating the mercenaries. Sofia agreed to reveal the location of the technology to compete with Romanoff for the mantle of the "Black Widow", but only under the condition that she works alone and without S.H.I.E.L.D.'s support.
Romanoff subsequently took herself offline, and, as roads, trains and airports were under surveillance for Fjodorov's murderer, she left Moscow riding a Railbike to use the high-speed rail connecting the capital to Sochi.The Avengers Prelude: Black Widow Strikes
===Hand's Activities===
Establishing themselves around the world, the Hand set up shell companies in several cities, including Moscow. In 2015, the Hand shut down their holdings in Moscow and transferred all resources to Midland Circle Financial.
===Grant Ward's Flight===
When Grant Ward discovered that the Von Strucker Family Vault was in Zepkow, he booked a flight to Moscow because it was the only flight he could find that passed over it. Ward would flirt with a hostess on the plane before informing her of his plan and subsequently destroying the plane's door, parachuting out and landing in Zepkow.
===Helmut Zemo's Plan===
Having escaped from the Joint Counter Terrorist Centre in Berlin, Helmut Zemo went to the airport and flew to Moscow. Once there, he drove to the HYDRA Siberian Facility to enact the final stages of his plan to end the Avengers.
===Blackout===
In 2017, Moscow was blacked out by the Watchdogs, who were posing as Inhumans in an attempt to draw them out of hiding. Moscow was one of the first cities targeted due to the fact that S.H.I.E.L.D. had relocated Inhumans to the city. Thankfully, the first blackout in Miami was stopped by S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, who then spread the solution worldwide, restoring power to Moscow.
===Secret Invasion===
====Nick Fury's Visit====
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====Chase of G'iah====
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====Bombing of Vossoyedineniye Square====
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====Rescue of Brogan====
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==Appearances==
Appearances for Moscow
In chronological order:
*Captain America: The First Avenger (map)
*Agent Carter
**Season One
***Time and Tide (mentioned)
**Season Two
***Better Angels (mentioned)
*Ant-Man (mentioned in a flashback)
*What If...?
**Season Two
***What If... Peter Quill Attacked Earth's Mightiest Heroes? (mentioned; alternate universe)
*Daredevil
**Season One
***In the Blood (mentioned in a flashback)
*Iron Man 2
*The Avengers Prelude: Black Widow Strikes
*What If...?
**Season Two
***What If... Captain Carter Fought the HYDRA Stomper? (mentioned; alternate universe)
*Captain America: The Winter Soldier (mentioned)
*What If...?
**Season One
***What If... Ultron Won? (alternate universe)
*Daredevil
**Season One
***World on Fire (mentioned)
*Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
**Season Three 
***Many Heads, One Tale (mentioned) 
***Parting Shot
**Season Four
***Uprising (mentioned)
*The Defenders
**Season One
***Worst Behavior (mentioned)
*Captain America: Civil War (mentioned)
*Luke Cage
** Season Two
***They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.) (mentioned)
*Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
**Season Seven 
***What We're Fighting For (mentioned)
* Secret Invasion
**Season One
***Resurrection
***Promises
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