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The streets of Moscow, the streets of Moscow, the alleys...
They, like rivers, change their "course": they lengthen and shorten, change their direction.
They are given new names, old ones are returned.
But there is something unchangeable in the streets and alleys of Moscow.
Hidden in the hustle and bustle, over time it comes to us as a "memory of dear places".
"Remembering an expensive place" - listen
For me, expensive places are the streets and alleys between Myasnitskaya and Pokrovka:
Armenian Lane – Nikolsky Lane
Arkhangelsk Lane – Telegraph Lane
Bank Lane – Shuvalovsky Lane
Belgorod passage
Bobrov pereulok – Yushkov Pereulok
Boyarsky Lane – Trekhsvyatitelsky Lane
Gusyatnikov Lane Bolshevistsky Lane
Devyatkin Lane – Devyatinsky Lane
Zhukovsky Street Mylnikov Lane
B. Zlatoustinsky Lane – B. Komsomolsky Lane.
M. Zlatoustinsky lane – M. Komsomolsky lane.
Ilyinsky Gate square Ilyinsky passage
B. Kozlovsky Lane – Chudovsky Lane
M. Kozlovsky lane Maltsev lane
Red Gate Square – Lermontovskaya Square
Krivokolenny Lane – Krivoe Koleno Lane
Lermontovskaya Square Red Gate Square
Lubyansky passage – Serov passage
Archers Lane – Georgievsky Lane
Makarenko Street Lobkovsky Lane
Maroseyka Street – Bogdan Khmelnitsky Street
Mashkova Street – Dobraya Slobodka Street
Milyutinsky Lane – Markhlevsky Street
Myasnitskaya Street – Kirova Street
Myasnitsky Gate Square – Kirovsky Gate Square
Myasnitsky proezd – Kirovsky proezd
Ogorodnaya Sloboda lane Stopani Lane
Pokrovka Street – Chernyshevsky Street
Potapovsky Lane – B. Uspensky Lane
Sadovaya Spasskaya Street
Sadovaya Chernogryazskaya Street
Crickets lane – M. Uspensky Lane
Turgenevskaya Square
Frolov Lane – Florovsky Lane
Furmanny Lane – Trubny Lane
B. Kharitonevsky lane – Kharitonovka Street
M. Kharitonevsky lane – Griboyedov Street
Horomny dead end – Trekhsvyatitelsky dead end
Chaplygina Street Mashkov Lane
Chistoprudny Boulevard
The list does not accidentally contain the previous street names.
Many people remember them under their old names.
You can use the list to view the author's photos of streets and alleys.
The general list of streets available through the alphabet, in addition to" expensive places", includes the streets of Kitay Gorod, Boulevard Ring and Garden Ring.
Photos of Moscow streets
Photos of streets and alleys of Moscow – photo fantasies, photo memories.
Frolov Lane
Gusyatnikov Lane
Myasnitskaya Street
Chaplygin Street
Zhukovsky Street
Bolshoy Kozlovsky Lane
Rings of Moscow
Kitay Gorod is a locality located inside the Kitaygorod fortress wall, built in 1538 to the corner towers of the Kremlin: Arsenalnaya and Beklemishevskaya.
The main streets are Varvarka, Ilyinka and Nikolskaya.
It also includes streets that ran from the outside of the wall: Manezhnaya Square, Revolution Square, Theater Passage, Lubyanskaya Square, New Square, Old Square and Kitaygorodsky Passage.
Now it is an urban area, which includes streets that have never passed through the territory of the fortress.
Among them are Vozdvizhenka, Bolshaya Dmitrovka, Znamenka, Okhotny Ryad streets.
The Boulevard ring is a continuous sequence of streets consisting of ten boulevards that arose on the site of the fortress wall of the White City.
The squares between the boulevards, called "gates", remind of the city wall.
Gogolevsky Boulevard
Nikitsky Boulevard
Petrovsky Boulevard
Pokrovsky Boulevard
Rozhdestvensky Boulevard
Sretensky Boulevard
Strastnoy Boulevard
Tverskaya Boulevard
Chistoprudny Boulevard
Yauzsky Boulevard
Prechistensky Gate
Nikitsky Gate
Peter's Gate
Pokrovsky Gate
Sretensky Gate
Myasnitsky Gate
Yauz Gate
Prechistenka Street
Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street
Petrovka Street
Pokrovka Street
Rozhdestvenka Street
Sretenka Street
Tverskaya Street
Myasnitskaya Street
Yauzskaya Street
The general list of streets also includes streets inside the Boulevard Ring.
The Garden Ring is a chain of streets laid out on the site of an Earthen Rampart in 1816-1830.
The gardens on the ring were demolished when the street was expanded in 1937.
Only the "garden" street names remind of them: Bolshaya Sadovaya, Sadovaya Karetnaya, Sadovaya Kudrinskaya, Sadovaya Samotechnaya, Sadovaya Spasskaya, Sadovaya Sukharevskaya, Sadovaya Triumfalnaya, Sadovaya Chernogryazskaya.
The general list of streets also includes streets inside the Garden Ring.
Waves of renaming
The names of the streets of Moscow have always changed.
Something remarkable was being built, a new owner appeared, or a notable event occurred, and a new street name began to be used.
This is a natural process.
Sometimes it had to be interfered with, since spontaneity gave rise to duplication of the names of Moscow streets and alleys.
After 1917, there was a massive change in the names of Moscow streets, when the struggle began with church names, with names given to the owners of houses and estates, names perpetuating the names of figures alien to the new government.
In the 1990s, another wave of renaming of the city's streets took place.
However, it was not so all encompassing and, most importantly, it can only be called formally renaming.
In fact, it was the return of the old historically formed names of Moscow streets and alleys.
Street names in Moscow are an important part of everyday life.
Whether we are aware of it or not, names that have roots in our native language appeal to the depths of our being.
That is why the old names of Moscow streets were destroyed after 1917.
Therefore, their return is important.
In the history of renaming Moscow streets, the location of the streets during the period of the name's validity is indicated.
Street history
The history of the streets and alleys of Moscow has a large bibliography.
But there are books that are close and dear, probably, to every lover of the history of the city.
These are the books of Sergei Romanyuk.
And among them, first of all, the book "From the history of Moscow lanes".
Its two editions were published in 1988 and 2003.
In 2013, a wonderful book "The Alleys of Old Moscow"was published.
What is a "street" and " lane"
The word "street" was formed from the Proto Slavic root ula, meaning "empty", and had a meaning - "freed from the thickets".
"Lane" was derived from" street " by adding the prefix re-, which here has the meaning of being in the gap between streets.
How many streets are there in Moscow
Moscow is constantly changing, and the number of streets is also changing.
It is believed that there are about 3,500 thousand of them.
The data on the types of streets are as follows: streets 1800, lanes 720, driveways 485, embankments 67, squares 140, boulevards 62, alleys 55, highways 67, avenues 41, dead ends 60, glades 14.
Pedestrian streets
Partially pedestrian streets and alleys:
Klimentovsky Lane is a pedestrian zone between B. Ordynka and Pyatnitskaya streets.
Krymskaya Embankment is a pedestrian zone from Gorky Park to B. Polyanka Street.
Kuznetsky Most Street is a pedestrian zone between B. Dmitrovka and Rozhdestvenka streets.
Rozhdestvenka Street is a pedestrian zone between Pushechnaya and Kuznetsky Most streets.
Stoleshnikov Lane is a pedestrian zone located between B. Dmitrovka and Petrovka streets.
Fully pedestrian streets and alleys:
Arbat Street.
Dmitrovka B. street.
Ipatievsky lane.
Kamergersky Lane.
Lavrushinsky lane.
Nikolskaya Street.
Tolmachevsky B. lane.
Tretyakov Passage.
In 2014, "pedestrian zones" appeared on Pyatnitskaya, Pokrovka and Maroseyka.
These are not pedestrian streets, but streets for pedestrians: sidewalks have been expanded on them at the expense of the roadway.
The most beautiful streets of Moscow
The longest street is the Warsaw Highway.
Its length is about 20 km.
The shortest street is Venetsianov Street near the Sokol metro station.
Its length is 48 m.
The longest circular street is the Moscow Ring Road (MKAD).
The length is 109 km.
The widest street is Leninsky Prospekt.
Its width ranges from 108 to 120 m.
The largest square is Red.
It occupies 75,000 m2.
The smallest square is Lyalina the intersection of Lyalin, Barashevsky, Maly Kazennyj and Bolshoy Kazennyj lanes.
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