All pedestrian areas of Moscow - from 2012 to 2015

It is very interesting to walk around the center of Moscow, where everything breathes antiquity. Being on some small street with a nice church, you involuntarily think that you are in the past centuries, and you cannot believe that streams of powerful cars rush nearby and glass bulks of high-rise buildings rise. What are the names themselves: Zamoskvorechye, Kitay-Gorod or Okhotny Ryad!

And if still the places you wander around are a pedestrian zone, this is generally a double pleasure!

In the historical center of Moscow, many streets received pedestrian status. Entire routes have been developed specifically for walking, during which at every step there are sights and beautiful places of our capital. On the way, you can relax and have a snack in numerous cafes, restaurants, as well as buy souvenirs.

What is a pedestrian area?

Pedestrian zones create in crowded places:

- in areas with a large number of historical monuments:

- where there are many shopping centers, consumer services enterprises, cultural institutions.

On these streets there is a high intensity of pedestrian flows, which is why the possibility of movement and parking of cars is completely or partially limited there.

The pedestrian zones of Moscow are organized in the city center on the streets of historical and cultural value not only for the Russian people, but also for the whole world. Most of the architectural monuments are concentrated here, natural recreation areas, museums, theaters are located.

Stages of development of pedestrian zones in Moscow

After Arbat, which became a pedestrian street back in the eighties and nineties, walking zones began to develop only in 2012.

This year in the capital, the status of pedestrian zones was assigned to Kamergersky and Stoleshnikov Lanes, Kuznetsk Bridge, Rozhdestvenka.

In 2013, the pedestrian areas of Moscow replenished:

1. Nikolskaya Street (between the Kremlin passage and Lubyanka Square).
2. New Arbat (between Nikitsky and Novinsky Boulevards) - here only the sidewalks were updated.
3. Petrovka - houses on the side of the street with odd numbers.
4. Tversky passage (between Bolshaya Dmitrovka and Tverskaya Square).
5. The area next to the Moscow Hotel is the Revolution Square and the space bounded by Okhotny Ryad, Theater and Kremlin Passages.
6. Klimentovsky, Lavrushinsky, Big and Small Tolmachevsky lanes, Kadashevskaya embankment, Ordynsky dead end and Bolotnaya square.
7. Patriarch Ponds.
8. Crimean embankment.
9. A 4-kilometer zone going from Shabolovka and Serpukhov shaft to the monument of Daniel of Moscow.

In 2014, pedestrian zones of Moscow were created on:

1. Friday street.
2. Pokrovka.
3. Maroseyke.
4. Zabelin Street (between Solyansky passage and Starosadsky lane).
5. The route for walks longer than 6 km between Gagarin and Europe squares (near the Kiev railway station): Leninsky Prospekt - Neskuchny Sad - Andreevsky Bridge - Pervaya Frunzenskaya Street - Komsomolsky Prospekt - Hulzunova Lane - Plyushchikha - Bogdan Khmelnitsky Bridge.

The pedestrian zones of Moscow were listed above . The scheme will help with the organization of independent travel. It is presented in full detail below.

New pedestrian zone in Moscow

In September 2015, walking areas were added, which included:

1. Big Ordynka, increasing the already existing zone (between the Small Moskvoretsky bridge and Serpukhovskaya square).
2. Bolshaya and Malaya Nikitskaya, Bolshaya and Malaya Bronnaya and Spiridonovka, which formed the promenade zone "Kremlin - Garden Ring".
3. Butcher's street.
4. Kaluga area and territory at the October tunnel.
5. Triumphal Square.
6. Streets located in the area of ​​the new children's store on Lubyanka: Kuznetsky Most, Teatralny proezd, Bol. Lubyanka, Rozhdestvenka, Cannon, Neglinnaya.
7. Novodevichy and Luzhnetskaya embankments.
8. Novoslobodskaya and Dolgorukovskaya streets.
9. Greater Yakimanka, Sretenka.
10. Bolshaya Ordynka (between the Small Moskvoretsky bridge and Serpukhovskaya square

Pedestrian areas of Moscow: plans for the near future

1. Until the end of 2016, the capital’s government decided to make the Revolution Square instead of the former huge parking lot a comfortable place for entertainment and recreation for citizens and visitors by connecting existing walking areas: from Nikolskaya Street to Red Square and from Kuznetsk Bridge to Bolshaya Dmitrovka. In this case, the space will be involved from the “Metropol” to the Kitay-Gorod wall. All kinds of cafes and shops will be located on the ground floor of the Metropol.
2. Work is underway on Bolshaya Yakimanka and Sretenka to change their appearance.
3. New pedestrian zones of Moscow: Krymskaya embankment is the first step towards creating a territory for citizens to walk along the Moscow River from the Sparrow Hills to the Neskuchny Garden, the Gorky Park and the Boulevard Ring.
4. Projects are underway to create pedestrian zones in areas adjacent to Petrovka, Plyushchikha, Pyatnitskaya, Leninsky and Komsomolsky Avenues.