Moscow is not only a place of concentration of government institutions, but also one of the most beautiful cities in Russia, although recent years have not been the best for the capital, and Moscow architects and city connoisseurs constantly arrange demonstrations and pickets. It is difficult to name the most beautiful avenues in the city, but usually the following three are referred to them - Novy Arbat, Kutuzovsky and Prospekt Mira.
New Arbat
This street is located in the Central Administrative District and "runs" parallel to the old Arbat. The beginning of this avenue is Arbatskiye Vorota Square, and its "end" is Free Russia Square. To walk along this wide, spacious and very picturesque street, you need to leave four metro stations - Arbatskaya and Smolenskaya of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line and with the same name, but on the Filevskaya line.
The most famous buildings of Novy Arbat are the following - the restaurant "Prague" in the house number 1, built in 1902, the mansion of E. M. Fedotova in house No. 5, Maternity hospital No. 7 in the house with the same name, where such celebrities as Kir Bulychev, Alexander Zbruev and Andrei Mironov were born. Among the masterpieces of modern architecture is the "Arbat Tower" in the house number 27, but no less interesting is the large "stalinka" in the house number 31, built in 1937-1939. The church of Simeon the Stylite in house number 2 is remarkable, the Moscow House of Books has been very popular since Soviet times.
Prospect Mira and Kutuzovsky prospect
The first street had several names earlier - Meshchanskaya, Troitskoe highway, Bolshaya Alekseevskaya and Bolshaya Rostokinskaya. You can get to it from several metro stations: "Prospekt Mira" of the Circle Line, the station of the same name on the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line, as well as from "Rizhskaya", "Alekseevskaya" and "VDNKh".
House No. 1 on Prospect Mira previously housed the Romanov tavern, which later belonged to the merchant Dudyshkin and the dynasty of innkeepers Bakastovs. House No. 3 on the same street was built back in 1885 according to the design of the then fashionable architect V. P. Zagorsky, and No. 5 used to belong to the rich tea merchants Perlov. The building on Prospect Mira No. 13 previously housed the Shelter of the Moscow Charity Society for Blind Children, in No. 41, building 1 lived the "king" of Russian porcelain, industrialist M. S. Kuznetsov.
Kutuzovsky Prospekt is somewhat removed from the historical center of Moscow and is located in the Western District of the capital. You can get on it from the Filyovskaya "Kutuzovskaya" and "Victory Park", as well as from the Arbat-Pokrovsky "Slavyansky Boulevard" and "Victory Park".
This avenue is famous for the fact that practically the entire ruling elite of the Central Committee of the CPSU lived in its "Stalin" buildings. In the house number 12 on it in the 19th century the Trekhgorny brewery was located, in number 26 Leonid Brezhnev lived for thirty years. The obelisk "Moscow-Hero City" is located on Kutuzovsky.
All these three avenues of the capital have a large number of memorable buildings, so walking along them will be not only pleasant, but also useful. Try to choose not “rush hours” for these walks, as otherwise your excursion will be accompanied by exhaust gases and hum of cars.
