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The Boulevard Ring is one of the main roads in the centre of Moscow, passing through historical boundaries of the older city and the place of the disassembled White City wall. Having emerged at the end of 18th the beginning of the19th century, the Boulevard Ring is over nine km long and is horseshoe-shaped. It consists of 10 boulevards: Gogolevsky, Nikitsky, Tverskoy, Strastnoy, Petrovsky, Rogdestvensky, Sretensky, Chistoprudny, Pokrovsky, and Yauzsky.
The project of the Boulevard Ring appeared in 1775. In 1796, the first boulevard, Tverskoy, was built. The entire Boulevard Ring was developed after the Patriotic War of 1812. At its crossing with radial streets, new squares appeared and old ones expanded. They bore the names of the former gates of the White City wall - Prechistenskiye, Arbatskiye, Nikitskiye, Petrovskiye, Myasnitskiye, Sretenskiye, Pokrovskiye and Yauzskiye. There are monuments to Nikolai Gogol, K.A.Timiryazev, Sergei Yesenin, Alexander.Pushkin, Vladimir Vysotsky, A.S.Griboedov, N.K.Krupskaya on the Boulevard Ring. The Boulevard Ring, declared monument of landscaping and gardening art in 1978, is a favorite strolling route for Muscovites. The route is 11 km long. |