No wonder Moscow is the capital of Russia. This is a huge city, the territory of which covers 2511 square kilometers, and is inhabited by more than twelve million people - these are only officially registered. Experts say that more than a million people live in the capital of the Russian Federation without official permission.
What is Moscow for citizens of the Russian Federation
Center for Cultural Heritage, Tourism, Economics and Politics. With a desire to study at a Moscow higher educational institution, probably every third teenager graduates from school, every girl dreams of living outside the Garden Ring. This is the center of life, where they strive to get not only from other cities of Russia, but also from other countries.
Want to? Forward! “The Earth begins, as you know, from the Kremlin!” (V. Mayakovsky)
Getting into the city is simple (physically), given the fact that Moscow is also the largest transportation hub in the whole country. Here is also the zero kilometer of Moscow, from which the road distances are counted.
It has already managed to become a landmark of the city and grow into beliefs, although it was installed relatively recently, only twenty years ago. By the way, such a reference point is present in many cities of the world, somewhere in the form of a special sign, and somewhere in the form of a monument, as, for example, in Barnaul, Minsk. But the honorary title of the first zero kilometer in the world can probably be awarded to the Milliarium Aureum column, located on a forum in the center of Ancient Rome. From it began all the roads of the once great empire, and now we can observe only some parts of the foundation of this column.
Zero kilometer sign in Moscow: history of the bronze reference mark of roads
The author of this attraction is Alexander Iulianovich Rukavishnikov, whose father and grandfather also devoted their lives to art. Honored Artist of the RSFSR, among the famous works of which are monuments to Vysotsky, Mikhalkov, Dostoevsky, Nikulin. There is evidence that the Badge, which was cast in bronze, was ready in 1985. Further negotiations went on about the place where the sign will be installed, but, probably, due to historical events, the sign was lost. But by a lucky coincidence during the analysis of storage facilities in 1995, it was discovered and installed in a place of honor accessible to any tourist. Now the sign designating the zero kilometer of Moscow is located between Red Square and Manezhnaya, next to the Ascension Gate. Many tourists believe that if you throw a coin over yourself over your left shoulder, standing at zero kilometer, you will surely fulfill a wish that was made before the throw. By the way, people use this, so to speak, without a specific place of residence, and actively collect sonorous pennies.
Where the length of the roads actually comes from
Where in Moscow the zero kilometer is actually, you can find out from historical sources. Earlier, the countdown was carried out from the main building of the post office, and in Moscow this building is the Central Telegraph. It is a little north than the established popular sign, at: st. Tverskaya, house 7. And during the time of the Russian Empire, zero kilometer was in the then capital, in St. Petersburg, and as zero kilometer of Moscow, it was located at the main post office.
Now tourists, arriving in Moscow, will surely get to the place where the Sign is located. It is mounted in paving stones and surrounded by various memorable places that are certainly visited in the capital (Museum of the Patriotic War of 1812, the Historical Museum, the aforementioned squares). And by the way, the place where the zero kilometer of Moscow is located was previously Lobny. They gathered here to listen to the decrees of the kings or to worship the holy relics.