Modern Moscow with its business center
The city we go this time in Streets & Squares is Moscow, the capital of Russia, first documented in 1147. From the times of Tsardom of Russia it has evolved into a very modern city, the home of some 20 million people in the metropolitan area.
Vocabulary: most мост (bridge), park парк (park), pereulok переу́лок (lane), proezd проезд (passage, thoroughfare), prospekt проспект (avenue), sad сад (garden), ulitsa улица (street). In the list below you find the names of streets etc also in the Russian language (and as they are probably seen in the local signs in Moscow) in brackets, and here in the vocabulary in bold.
ALEXANDER GARDEN (Александровский сад) Alexander I of Russia (1777-18225) was the Emperor of Russia, the first King of Congress Poland and the Grand Duke of Finland, ruling Russia during the chaotic period of the Napoleonic Wars. Born in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire. StreetView - Wiki
BOLSHAYA YAKIMANKA STREET (улица Большая Якиманка) named after Saint Joachim, the husband of Saint Anne and the father of Mary, mother of Jesus. There used be be a church here with a chapel devoted to Saints Joachim and Anna, demolished during the Soviet era. StreetView -
GORKY PARK (Центральный парк культуры и отдыха имени Горького) Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) was a writer, a founder of the socialist realism literary method, and a political activist. Born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire - StreetView - Wiki
KUTUZOVSKY AVENUE - Mikhail Kutuzov (1745-1813) leader of the Russian field army during the French invasion of Russia. Born in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (1813/67) - Wiki
LENINSKY AVENUE (Ле́нинский проспе́кт) Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924), the Russian Marxist revolutionary, politician, and political theorist who served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia (1917-1924) and then of the Soviet Union (1922-1924). Born in Simbirsk, Russian Empire. StreetView - Wiki
LEO TOSTOY STREET (улица Льва Толстого) Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), the Russian writer regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time who nevertheless, despite numerous nominations, never one the Nobel Prize. StreetView
MARSHALA KONEVA STREET (у́лица Ма́ршала Ко́нева) Ivan Konev (1897-1973) Soviet general who led Red Army forces on the Eastern Front during WW2. Born in Lodeyno, Vologda Governorate, Russian Empire - StreetView - Wiki
NIKOLSKAYA STREET ( Никольская улица) Saint Nicholas (270-343) was a Christian bishop whose legendary habit of secret gift-giving gave rise to the traditional model of Santa Claus (“Saint Nick”). One of the most revered saints in Russian Orthodoxy, and numerous churches and cathedrals bear his name in Russia. Born in Patara, Roman Empire. StreetView - Wiki
OLOF PALME STREET (улица Улофа Пальме) Olof Palme (1927-1986), Swedish social democrat, politician and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Sweden before the assassination in 1986. Born in Stockholm, Sweden. StreetView - Wiki
SANDUNOVSKY LANE (Сандуно́вский переу́лок) Sila Zandukeli-Sandunov (1756-1820) actor of Georgian origin, businessman and the founder of the Sanduny Baths in Moscow – StreetView - Wiki
TIMUR FRUNZE STREET (улица Тимура Фрунзе) Timur Frunze (1923-1942) was a WW2 fighter pilot who was named posthumously Hero of the Soviet Union. Born in Harkov, Ukraine, Soviet Union. StreetView
TRETYAKOVSKY PASSAGE (Третьяковский проезд) Pavel Tretyakov (1832-1898) was businessman, patron of art and philanthropist whose extensive art collection can be seen in the Tretyakov Gallery. Born in Moscow, Russian Empire. StreetView - Wiki
VARVARKA STREET - Saint Barbara who lived from mid third century to late third century/early fourth century was an early Christian Lebanese and Greek saint and martyr. Born in Heliopolis Phoenicia. The street takes its name after the St. Barbara Church there. StreetView - MoscowInfo
VISHNYAKOVSKY LANE (Вишняковский переулок) - Matvey Vishnyakovskiy was a military commander who once lived in the area - StreetView - Wiki (Russian)
VOLKHONKA STREET (улица волхонка) named after the Volkonsky noble family who once owned property in the area, thereamong a local drinking establishment called ‘Volkhonka’ - the title naturally derived from their family name which later became the street name. StreetView -
A to Z FROM MOSCOW
i.e. a list of people born in Moscow. Just another fun way to know something more about the city. We pick a couple of people for each alphabet, if possible. The numbers you see at the end of each line indicate the year of birth. This list is updated from time to time. And last but not least: the flag of Moscow!
A – Evgeny Artyukhin (1983)
B – Urie Bronfenbrenner (1917) - Sergey Brin (1973)
C – Tom Cain (1959)
D – Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821) - Eduardo del Llano (1962) - Artem Dzyuba (1988)
E – Aryeh Eliav (1921)
F – Elena Fatalibekova (1947) - Viacheslav Fetisov (1958) - Jeanna Friske (1974)
G – Emanuel Goldberg (1881) - Alexander Ginzburg (1936) - Arcadi Gaydamak (1952) - Daria Gavrilova (1994)
H - Jørgen Alfred Hviid (1916) - Eve Harlow (1989)
K – Lev Kamenev (1883)
L – Alexey Lyapunov (1911) - Sergey Lazarev (1983)
M – Vera Menchik (1906) - Ekaterina Makarova (1988)
N –
O – Alexander Ovechkin (1985)
P – Alexander Pushkin (1799) - Boris Pasternak (1890) - Alla Pugacheva (1949)
R – Sergey Ryazansky (1974) - Andrei Rogozine (1993)
S – George Sachs (1896) - Andrei Sakharov (1921)
T – Pavel Tretyakov (1832)
U - Maxim Udalov (1966) - Alexander Uspenski (1987)
V –
W – Georg Witt (1899)
Y -
Z - Andrey Zubov (1952) - Olga Zaitseva (1978)
Updated 31.8.2022
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Streets_in_Moscow
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/09/24/moscows-changing-street-names-reflect-its-history-a67415