Walking along the old Moscow (38 photos)

1. Paveletsky station. Many taxi drivers, but little suburban buses, in contrast to the present day.


2. Entrance to the museum pavilion Funeral Train Lenin.


3. Monument VI Lenin on Pavlov Street.


4. Pyatnitskaya street.


5. House №18 on Pyatnitskaya Street. - Architect O. Bove.


6. New homes B. Polyanke. Shop "Young Guard", is still working.


7. Residential Complex on the street. Serafimovicha. "House on the waterfront." Left the cinema "Drummer", which has a retractable roof on the project.


8. A Moskvoretsky Bridge and Red Square. Houses for Tajiks on the area have not yet installed.


Now go to the north of the city.

9. The obelisk in honor of space exploration. But Ostankino Tower mine different now highlighted.


10. New residential building on Prospekt Mira.


11. Department "Children's World" on Marx Avenue.


12. Marx Prospekt. Left the hotel "Metropol».


13. Grand Theatre on Sverdlov Square.


14. Hotel "National", it stands for "Intourist". Right building of Gosplan.

Photos are taken from guidebooks "Moscow three hours," published in 1979.


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1. Kursk Station. Parking is now slightly cropped area under TC "Atrium»


2. Street. Chkalov - now the earth wall. Right where the trees grow, is TC "Atrium».


3. Turn right on the street. Kazakov. Church of the Ascension on the field pea (18th century).


4. Institute of Geodesy and Cartography.


5. Next, go back to the Garden Ring and go to the other side. Get on the street. Chernyshevsky, now referred to as in the old days - st. Pokrovka. Cinema Novorossiysk. Before him, on a small area set 8-ton ship's anchor, sent residents of the hero-city of Novorossiysk as a gift to Muscovites.


6. Let's look at the green and Chistoprudny Boulevard. In the 16th century the pond called trash, because it dumped waste slaughterhouses standing next door to the Butcher Street. Clean the pond was called since 1703. In 1966 was built cafe. And in the 21st century on the pond there was a restaurant tent.


7. Next, go down the street Bohdan Khmelnytsky (original title Maroseyka street). Roll call centuries. Structures 19 and 20 centuries at the corner of the alley Starosadskiy. Right - Embassy of the Republic of Belarus. Height of the Church - Federal Drug Control Service.


8. Prospect Street. Bohdan Khmelnytsky. Right Church of St. Nicholas. Right - Polytechnical Museum and the Constitutional Court.


9. Let's go back to Starosadskiy alley. In the old days there was a hole of "Old Gardens", a chronicle mentions it in the late 15th century, when on the steep slope of rugged streams, gardens and orchards located Grand Prince of Moscow Ivan III. Left - a historic library, right, by the way, my former place of work.


10. We descend down to the street Zabelina, go through Solianke to metro "area Nogina" (m. Kitai-Gorod). Area Nogina: All Saints Church in Kulishki and former business courtyard.


11. Then walk up to, yet existing, hotels Russia.


12. And then go see fireworks in May to Red Square ...


If you are not yet tired of walking - continue.

Route №2. Kiev Station - Kutuzov Avenue - Smolensk area - st. Arbat - Kalinin Prospect - Prospect Marx - Red Square.

13. Kiev railway station. Built in 1914-1917 years. Station notable huge glass arches, overlapping platforms, designed by V. Shukhov.


14. Large Dorogomilov street, go to its intersection with the Kutuzovsky Avenue - here the obelisk in honor of the assignment Moscow honorary title "Hero City».


15. Stroll to the Borodino Panorama and the Arc de Triomphe, heading back to the Borodino Bridge. In the distance is the ensemble of Smolensk Square. In the old Moscow Smolensk Smolensk area was divided into a market where sold "schepnoy goods" and the Smolensk-Haymarket Square, where they sold the hay.


16. Go right, we get on the street Arbat, argue that it is a favorite street Muscovites. This word means the area of ​​eastern origin, which lies outside the city walls, a suburb. Previously, there drove cars. Right house where he lived AS Pushkin.


17. Then will come to the avenue. Kalinin (now ul. Novy Arbat). At the corner of Prospect and garden lights shining largest restaurant in Moscow Arbat, two floors of which can accommodate 2,000 guests. On its roof lit a large glass globe Aeroflot. On the same side of the Arbat is a cafe "Snowstorm". Globe is now given to Alfa-Bank, and all the rest of the building occupied most fashionable casino city.


18. On the opposite side is the Moscow House of Books, Movies October (two halls for 2450 and 450 seats) and the shop "Melody". Still here traded speculators Western music CDs with it. Now here "Coffee House" and "Peking Duck».


19. Let's go ahead and get on Arbat Square. There are two metro station "Arbat" different lines, the logic of the names of which I did not understand it since childhood. Cinema Art was built in 1912, straight from his excellent views of the legendary Soviet "skyscraper" - Mosselprom Building.


20. If you go straight - Getting to the State Library of the USSR. VI Lenin - the largest in the country. When a museum library books - one of the richest in the world. In Kompeks library also includes the historic building of the 18th century - Pashkov house.


21. Next, go through the Alexander Garden in Red Square. In Lenin's Mausoleum is worth infinitely long line. Over the past years it was visited by over 80 million people.


22. Let's see here on this form, when the former hallmark of the city and go to Moskvoretsky Bridge, offering unique panorama of the Kremlin ensemble.


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