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Sretenka
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09.03.11 00:00
The street, which in the sixteenth century was called Ustretenskaya, is now simply called Sretenka.
This street is located in the administrative district of Moscow.
It starts from the Sretensky Gate and ends at the Malaya Sukharevskaya and Bolshaya squares.
The street received an unusual name from the old Slavic word "to meet", which meant to meet, to go towards.
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Lubyanka Square
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22.01.11 22:43
Lubyanskaya Square is one of the most famous and legendary squares in Moscow, located near Red Square.
According to the famous expert of Moscow, writer V. A. Gilyarovsky, in the nineties of the nineteenth century, a huge house of the insurance company "Russia"was built on the square.
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Troparevo
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06.03.11 01:13
For the first time, the mention of Troparevo is found in documents dating back to the XV century.
Then the village of the same name belonged to the boyar Troparion.
The famous Church of St. Michael the Archangel, which remained wooden until the middle of the XX century, was also located here.
The decision to build a residential area here was made by the Moscow authorities only in 1958, and the village began to be built up in 1966.
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Luzhniki
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12.01.11 23:48
If you look at Moscow and Luzhniki from the top of the Vorobyovy Mountains, a beautiful panorama opens up.
In this place, you feel especially strongly like a Muscovite and understand that Moscow is your beautiful city, located by a quiet and beautiful river.
Luzhniki belongs to one of the oldest districts of Moscow.
Currently, the name "Luzhniki" is associated with the stadium, located as if in a huge bowl, at its very bottom.
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China City
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02.02.11 11:42
The historical area of the city of Moscow called "Kitay Gorod" is a residential area inside the so called Kitaygorodskaya wall.
It was built in 1538 between the Beklemishevskaya Tower and the Arsenal Tower, which are the corner towers of the Moscow Kremlin.
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Okhotny Ryad
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30.12.10 15:07
Previously, this place in the center of the capital was called Okhotny Ryad.
A large number of bat birds, both domestic and hunted, were sold in many shops.
Initially, wooden shops were built, but devastating fires forced the construction of stone shops.
Clerks, merchants and butchers were not too favored by Muscovites for their reactionary nature.
They called them Okhotnoryadtsy.
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