Like any megalopolis in the world, Moscow has many streets - old boulevards and new avenues, beautiful embankments and groomed lanes, noisy highways and quiet pedestrian streets. And many of them are somewhat remarkable.
How many streets in Moscow, 2016
In addition to the fact that Moscow is a very large city, it is also very old. Many of its streets were laid several centuries ago. And today, the capital has nearly 5,000 thousand different streets, alleys, boulevards, driveways, highways, avenues and alleys. 3,500 of them are located in the capital itself and another 1,300 in New Moscow.
Among them there are as many as five pedestrian streets, the most famous of which is Arbat. And you can take a walk without risking to meet a parked or racing car along Stoleshnikov and Kamergersky lanes, Shkolnaya street and Kuznetsky Most.
And how many special streets in Moscow , for example, embankments located along the Moskva River. There are seven of them: the Kremlin, Sofia, Moskvoretskaya, Luzhnetskaya, Bersenevskaya, Andreevskaya and Baltschug.
It should be noted and ring roads, which in the city so far 4: Sadovoe, Boulevard, Third Transport Ring and the Moscow Ring Road.
Most common names
Toponymy, that is, the appropriation of geographical names, is a curious and unpredictable thing, and in many ways illogical. Since pre-revolutionary times in Moscow, it has been customary to give the streets names according to the bush principle. That is, there are many driveways or alleys around the street with similar names and numbers. For example, around the Donskoy Monastery there is Donskaya street and several Donsky lanes.
But it also happens that streets with the same names are not at all next to each other, such as, for example, Parkovaya Street. Do you know how many Park Streets in Moscow? There are two of them, one in Mitino and the other in Novo-Peredelkino. Or Polevaya street - it is located in South Butovo, and three lanes with the same name - in Sokolniki.
But the record holder for the number of streets with a similar name is March 8th Street. There are 4 of them in the city, one of the 8 “March” streets is located near the Aeroport metro station, two more adjoin it, and the fourth in general in Vnukovo. But on February 23, there is no street in the city at all.
But most of all in Moscow Designed driveways. Nobody knows how many streets in Moscow with such a name exactly. Such a name is given temporarily to those streets that are allocated to independent city highways or to new streets, which is not uncommon for dynamically developing Moscow.
The longest and shortest streets of Moscow
Two are fighting for the title of the shortest street in the capital - Venetsianova Street (48 meters in length) and Lubochny Lane (58 meters). And if the first with a stretch can be considered a full-fledged object - it is rather an alley between private houses, then Lubochny passage is, without a doubt, the shortest street with urban buildings, and even in the city center. The entire lane extends along just one facade of the office building on it.
And how many streets in Moscow have record lengths! For example, Profsoyuznaya street is 250 times longer than Lubochny passage and stretches for 14 kilometers. The street, by the way, was built back in 1955. However, she also has a competitor - the Warsaw highway stretches for 21 kilometers, and if you take into account all the toponymic objects, then this is the absolute record holder in Moscow.
The widest and narrowest
The title is the narrowest, again, behind Venetsianova Street, since it has a width of only 4 meters. But the widest street of the capital is Leningradsky Prospekt.
It has a width of 120 meters and it is one of the most important transport arteries of the city. It connects Belorussky Station and Sheremetyevo Airport, the largest in the country, as well as Dynamo Stadium, several metro stations and other important facilities.
Oldest and newest
How many streets, squares Moscow has left its centuries-old history. The city certainly has ancient objects that have survived to this day. One of the most ancient today does not quite exist, but it is considered such. This is Velikaya Street, mentioned in documents of the 15th century, on which in the modern history, namely in the 60s of the last century, the Rossiya Hotel was built.
Slightly “younger” is Nikolskaya Street, adjacent to it, which was already known in the 17th century and today connects Red and Lubyanka Squares.
But how many new streets in Moscow and which one is the “freshest” are very difficult to track, because the city is constantly being built, expanded and reorganized. Dozens of new streets are introduced annually in New Moscow alone. Not everyone is immediately given names; many will remain Designed Driveways for a long time. In 2016, 15 streets received new names. Today, people are registered at addresses named after Russian scientists, Nobel laureates, academics, and pilots. In addition, New Moscow takes on common names, for example, Udmurt, Pearl, Blagodatnaya and Zabolotie streets.
Interesting names
Of course, this is subjective, but there are streets in the capital with names that cause bewilderment or a smile. For example, street Brick recesses. But you just need to find out that a brick factory was located here, and everything falls into place. But Mosneftekip Street, also having an administrative name, is not read and pronounced so easily.
Among the complex and Rochdelskaya street, difficult for the Russian reprimand, and 25 Baku commissars street, a long pronunciation. But the record holder for the length of the name is still Central Passage of the Khoroshevsky Silver Forest.
It is much more pleasant to live on Veselaya, Raduzhnaya or Solovyin passage, although there are fewer such pleasant names in Moscow.