The best photos of old Moscow for 2011 (34 photos)

Today we are summing up the year and collecting in one publication all the photographs of old Moscow that we found interesting or rare throughout 2011. See below for many unusual photographs in chronological order from the oldest to the relatively recent...

1. Renovation of the Assumption Cathedral of the Kremlin in 1894-1895.

2. Beginning of the 20th century. Bolshaya Sadovaya. The entrance to the garden has been changed, the alleys have been cut down to organize car traffic. And in general, now this place is almost unrecognizable.

3. A giant “here it is, the fish of my dreams” beluga, caught in the Caspian Sea and exhibited in V.F. Bobkov’s store on Balchug. 72 p – 72 pounds – almost 1200 kg

4. The first automobile exhibition in Moscow, Manege. 1908

5. Winner of the 1908 race St. Petersburg–Moscow Victor Emery

6. Opening of the monument to General Skobelev in 1912. Now, exactly on the site of this monument, there is a monument to Yuri Dolgoruky (see our publication about this monument)

7. Elite and wildly expensive pre-revolutionary transport - Troika - in front of the Metropol.

8. 100th anniversary of the Eliseev Brothers Trade Partnership. 1813-1913

9. Broken facade of the Metropol Hotel, 1917. M.V. Frunze recalled that his soldiers took particular pleasure in shooting at the windows and facades of the Metropol, watching as fragments and bricks fell down with a roar.

10. Ice jams on the Moscow River in 1926

11. Sports events on the water near Gorky Park (the old Crimean Bridge is visible in the distance). 1920s.

12. Tverskaya street before reconstruction, 1934 (the tallest building is clearly visible - Telegraph)

13. Construction of the Okhotny Ryad station, 1934

14. Manezhnaya Square in 1934. The old quarters have almost been demolished, and the new buildings of the Moscow Hotel and the State Planning Committee (now the State Duma) have not yet been completed.

15. Demolition of the Sukharev Tower on Sukharevskaya Square in 1934

16. The rise of a star to the Nikolskaya Tower of the Kremlin in 1935. This is one of the first stars of the Kremlin; they lasted no more than two years and already in 1937 they were replaced with the current ones, made of ruby glass.

17. Entrance to the Moscow Zoo. 1935

18. Expansion of Tverskaya (Gorky St.) in 1938. You can see how much wider the street has become.

19. Moving the monument to Pushkin to the opposite side of the street in 1951.

20. Construction of the Moscow State University building on the Lenin Hills, early 50s.

21. Construction of the main building of Moscow State University. 1950

22. New and old - construction of a high-rise residential building on Kotelnicheskaya embankment.

23. View of Luzhniki from the Vorbiev Hills in 1952.

24. View of Moscow in the 1950s from under the spire of a high-rise building on Barrikadnaya.

25. Dog playground (historical name, after the royal kennels), early 1960s. For comparison: now this place looks like this.

26. Izmailovsky Park, 1963

27. Construction of the Ostankino TV tower. ~1965

28. Early 1970s. Very hot summer in Moscow. Udaltsovsky ponds in the area of Vernadsky Avenue.

29. Restaurant “Seventh Heaven” in the Ostankino TV tower. 1975

30. Heavy rain and flooding on the Garden Ring in the Sadovo-Spasskaya area. 1976

31. Attraction “House of Surprises” in Izmailovsky Park. Inside was a huge leather sofa; they sat on it, fastened their seat belts, and then the sofa began to sway, and the house itself began to spin like a wheel at high speed. The Japanese brought these attractions that were in Izmailovsky Park to our exhibition a long time ago, and then they left them as they were. their transportation from Moscow to Japan cost more than the attractions themselves.

32. Aeroexpress in Soviet style. For more than twenty years, buses with such an inscription carried passengers to Moscow airports.

33. Not everyone knows that in the courtyard of the State Duma buildings there are Troekurov’s chambers, surrounded on all sides. Filmed in the 1980s, when it was possible to get to the chambers without problems. Now there are posts, fences and security in the Duma courtyard

34. Moscow, October 1993