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Wide angle view looking southeast over the river, with the Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building in view at far left; Moskva and Moscow are two different renderings of the same Russian word. The city is named after the river. The origin of the name is unknown, although several theories exist. The Moskva is a river that flows through the Moscow and Smolensk Oblasts in Russia, and is a tributary of the Oka River. The length of the river is 503 km. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 5/13/2009)