Garden ring
The garden ring or ring "B" ( Russian Садовое кольцо or кольцо "Б" / Sadowoje kolzo or kolzo "B" ) is an approximately 15.6 km long ring road in the center of Moscow .
Moscow used to be surrounded by several defenses. One of these was the earth wall (Russian Земляной вал). After the fire of 1812 , the city began to expand. The earth wall was removed and the adjacent moat was filled. The resulting space between the buildings was converted into a wide cobblestone street with sidewalks (total width less than 25 m) and gardens (hence the name garden ring) and boulevards were created.
Around 1870, tracks were laid for a horse-drawn tram, which was replaced by modern trams in 1908 . The tram line on the Gartenring was named B ( "Б" ). From 1936 to 1937 the trams were replaced by trolleybuses . In the early 1950s, the ring line (Кольцевая линия) of the Moscow Metro went into operation, the southern part of which follows the course of the garden ring. In the 1960s, the Gartenring was expanded into an urban motorway, with pedestrian underpasses and road tunnels replacing most of the traffic light crossings that had existed until then. In some places, however, there are level crossings and even pedestrian traffic lights, so that the garden ring is not a motorway in the classic sense.
The Hotel Peking , a listed building in the style of socialist classicism , is located on Great Sadowaja Street, a part of the garden ring road .
Segments of the garden ring
- Triumphalnaja Square
- Sadovaya Triumphalnaya Street
- Sadovaya Karentnaya Street
- Sadovaya Samotyochnaya Street
- Samotyochnaya Square
- Sadovaya Sukharevskaya Street
- Malaya Sukharevskaya Square
- Bolshaya Sukharevskaya Square
- Sadovaya Spasskaya Street
- Krasnye Vorota Square
- Sadovaya Chernogryasskaya Street
- Semljanoj Wal square
- Zemlyanoj whale
- Taganskaya Square
- Nizhnyaya Krasnokholmskaya Street
- Sazepski whale
- Valovaya Street
- Serpukhovskaya Square
- Zhitnaya Street
- Korowi whale
- Krymsky whale
- Krymskaya Square
- Subovsky Boulevard
- Smolensky Bouleward
- Smolenskaya Sennaya Square
- Smolenskaya Square
- Nowinsky Boulevard
- Kudrinskaya Square
- Sadovaya Kudrinskaya Street
- Bolshaya Sadovaya Street
