Monument to Mikhail Kalashnikov – a monument by the sculptor Salavat Shcherbakov (or Chtcherbakov), dedicated to the creator of the Kalashnikov assault rifle, Mikhail Kalashnikov. It is in Oruzheyny Square at the intersection of Oruzheyny Lane and Dolgorukovskaya…

The monument to Alexander Trifonovich Tvardovsky is installed next to the building that houses the editorial office of the Novy Mir magazine, in which he worked as editor-in-chief from 1950-1954 and 1958-1970. The place on Strastnoy Boulevard (Moscow) was…

The monument to Vladimir the Great is a monumental structure erected on Borovitskaya Square in Moscow at the initiative of the Russian Military Historical Society and the city government. The opening ceremony took place on November 4, 2016. Architectural…

The monument to Maya Plisetskaya is the work of sculptor Viktor Mitroshin, installed in the center of Moscow, in Maya Plisetskaya Square, in 2015. The square, named after the ballerina, appeared on Bolshaya Dmitrovka in 2015 on the site of a wasteland formed…

The monument to Nadezhda Krupskaya is located on Sretensky Boulevard in Moscow. It’s made as a standing female figure draped with fabric. Behind the figure are two 10-meter pylons on which the dates of life and quotes from her speeches are inscribed. The…

Monument to Timiryazev – a monument to the natural scientist and specialist in plant physiology Kliment Timiryazev. The monument was erected in 1923 in Moscow on Tverskoy Boulevard near Nikitsky Gate Square. The authors of the monument are sculptor Sergey…

Red Square is the main square of Moscow, located between the Moscow Kremlin (to the west) and Kitay-Gorod (to the east). It goes to the bank of the Moskva River through the gentle Vasilyevsky Spusk. The square stretches along the northeastern wall of the…

Garden Ring (Russian: Садовое кольцо) is a circular arterial system of streets in the center of Moscow. Length – 15.6 km, width – 60-70 m. The Ring consists of seventeen individually named streets and fifteen squares. The Garden Ring is a direct descendant…

Tverskaya Street is the main street of Moscow in the Tverskoy district of the Central Administrative District. It runs from Manezhnaya Square to Triumphalnaya Square. The street originated as a road to Tver, a section of which within the boundaries of Moscow…

Europe Square is a square in Moscow, located between Berezhkovskaya embankment, Kievsky railway station and Kievsky (Borodinsky) square, outside the Garden Ring on the banks of the Moscow River. It is located in the Dorogomilovo district of the Western Administrative…

Arbat is a touristy pedestrian street in the Central Administrative District of Moscow (Arbat district). Passes from Arbat Gate Square to Smolenskaya Square lie between Prechistenka and Novy Arbat. The numbering of houses is conducted from the Arbat Gate…

New Arbat Avenue (Novy Arbat, in 1963-1990 part of Kalinin Avenue) is a street in the Arbat district of Moscow. It continues Vozdvizhenka Street from Arbat Gate Square and goes to Svobodnaya Rossiya Square, where it passes into the Novoarbatsky Bridge. Part…

Kudrinskaya Square (from 1919 to 1922 and from 1925 to 1992 – Uprising Square, from 1922 to 1925 – Eugene Pottier Square) – an area in the Presnensky district of the Central Administrative District of Moscow on the Garden Ring between Barrikadnaya, Sadovaya…

Vozdvizhenka Street (in 1935-1946 – Komintern Street; in 1946-1962 – Kalinina Street; from 1963 to the early 1990s – part of Kalinin Avenue) – a street in the Arbat district of the Central Administrative District of Moscow. It runs from Mokhovaya street to…

Mokhovaya (1961-1990 – part of Marx Avenue) – a street in the center of Moscow. The street originates from Znamenka Street, goes to the north, connects to Vozdvizhenka Street, connects to Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street, goes to the left and ends at Tverskaya…

Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street (in 1920-1993 – Herzen Street) is a radial street in the Central Administrative District of Moscow. Passes from Manezhnaya Square to Kudrinskaya Square between Tverskaya Street and Vozdvizhenka parallel to them. The numbering of…

Manezhnaya Square (in 1967-1990 – the area of the 50th anniversary of October) is one of the largest squares in the center of Moscow, located next to the Kremlin and Alexander Garden. Created in 1931-1938 during the implementation of the master plan for the…

Ploschad Revolyutsii (Revolution Square, until March 1917 – Voskresenskaya Square) is one of the central squares of Moscow. Located on the territory of the Tverskoy district between Manezhnaya and Teatralnaya squares. Historically, the bed of the Neglinnaya…

Teatralnaya Ploschad (Theater Square, 1820s – Petrovskaya Square, in 1824 already Teatralnaya, in 1919-1990 – Sverdlov Square) – a square in the center of Moscow. It is located northwest of Revolution Square, between Teatralny Proyezd, Petrovka and Kopyevskiy…

Teatralniy proezd (Theatre passage, 1961-1990 – part of Marx Avenue) – a street in the Central Administrative District of Moscow. It runs from Theatre Square to Lubyanka Square. The numbering of houses is carried out from the Theatre Square. Teatralniy proezd…

Tretyakovskiy proezd is a street in Moscow, located in the historical Kitay-gorod district between Nikolskaya street and Teatralniy Proezd. It was built in 1870-1871. At the same time, the Tretyakov Gates, stylized as Russian antiquity, were cut through in…