Two excursions to Moscow 30 years ago.
Route No. 1. Kursky railway station - st. Chkalova - st. Chernyshevsky - st. Bogdan Khmelnitsky - Nogin Square - st. Razin - Red Square.
1. Kursky railway station. The parking lot has now been slightly cut to accommodate the territory of the Atrium shopping center.
2. st. Chkalova - now Zemlyanoy Val. On the right, where the trees grow, is the Atrium shopping center.
3. Turn right onto the street. Kazakova. Church of the Ascension on the Pea Field (18th century).
4. Institute of Geodesy, Aerial Photography and Cartography Engineers.
5. Next, we go out again to the garden ring and go to the other side. We get to the street. Chernyshevsky, now called as in ancient times - st. Pokrovka. Cinema Novorossiysk. In front of it, on a small square, there is an 8-ton ship anchor, sent by residents of the hero city of Novorossiysk as a gift to Muscovites.
6. Let's take a look at the green Chistoprudny Boulevard. In the 16th century the pond was called Pogany, because... waste from slaughterhouses located next door on Myasnitskaya Street was dumped into it. The name Chistye Pond began in 1703. In 1966, a cafe was built. And in the 21st century, the Tent restaurant appeared on the pond.
7. Next we will walk along Bohdan Khmelnytsky Street (original name Maroseyka Street). Roll call of centuries. buildings of the 19th and 20th centuries on the corner of Starosadsky Lane. On the right is the Embassy of the Republic of Belarus. The high-rise behind the church - GosNarkoKontrol.
8. Perspective st. Bohdan Khmelnytsky. On the right is the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. Directly - the Polytechnic Museum and the Constitutional Court.
9. Let's go back to Starosadsky Lane. In the old days, there was a tract called “Old Gardens”; the chronicle mentions it at the end of the 15th century, when the gardens and vegetable gardens of the Grand Duke of Moscow Ivan III were located on a steep slope cut by streams. On the left is the Historical Library building, on the right, by the way, is my former place of work.
10. Let's go down to Zabelina Street, walk along Solyanka to the Ploshchad Nogina metro station (metro Kitay-Gorod). Nogin Square: the Church of All Saints on Kulishki and the former Business Courtyard.
11. Then we’ll walk to the still existing Russia Hotel.
12. And then we’ll go see the May fireworks on Red Square...
Route No. 2. Kyiv railway station - Kutuzovsky prospect - Smolenskaya square - st. Arbat - Kalinin Avenue - Marx Avenue - Red Square.
1. Kyiv Railway Station. Built in 1914-1917. The station is notable for its huge glass vaults covering the platforms, created according to the design of V. Shukhov.
2. We will walk along Bolshaya Dorogomilovskaya Street until it intersects with Kutuzovsky Prospekt - an obelisk has been erected here in honor of Moscow being given the honorary title “Hero City”.
3. After a walk to the Borodino panorama and the Arc de Triomphe, we return back to the Borodino Bridge. The ensemble of Smolensk Square is visible in the distance. In old Moscow, Smolenskaya Square was divided into the Smolensk Market, where “wood chips” were sold, and Smolenskaya-Sennaya Square, where hay was sold.
4. Walking straight, we find ourselves on Arbat Street, they say that this is the favorite street of Muscovites. This word of eastern origin means the area lying outside the city walls, the suburbs. Cars used to go there. On the right is the house where A.S. lived. Pushkin.
5. Then we will go out onto the avenue. Kalinin (now Novy Arbat street). On the corner of Prospekt and Garden, the largest restaurant in Moscow, Arbat, shines with lights, its two floors can accommodate 2 thousand guests. A large glass globe of Aeroflot glows on its roof. On the same side of Arbat there is the Metelitsa cafe. The Globe was now given to Alfa-Bank, and all the other buildings were taken over by the most fashionable casinos in the city.
6. On the opposite side there is the Moscow House of Books, the Oktyabr cinema (two halls with 2450 and 450 seats) and the Melodiya store. Speculators also sold Western music CDs here. Now there are "Coffee House" and "Peking Duck".
7. Let's go further and get to Arbat Square. There are two Arbatskaya metro stations here of different lines, the logic of whose names I have not understood since childhood. The Khudozhestvenny Cinema was built back in 1912; directly from it there is an excellent view of the legendary Soviet “skyscraper” - the Mosselprom House.
8. If you go straight, you will get to the State Library of the USSR named after. IN AND. Lenin is the largest in the country. The library has a book museum - one of the richest in the world. The library complex also includes an ancient building from the 18th century - Pashkov House.
9. Next we will go through the Alexander Garden to Red Square. There is an endlessly long queue at the Lenin Mausoleum. Over the past years, it has been visited by more than 80 million people.
