Neglinnaja
The Neglinnaja ( Russian: Негли́нная ), also colloquially Neglinka ( Негли́нка ), is a small left tributary of the Moskva River right in the center of Moscow . The river is around 7.5 km long and now runs exclusively underground in a specially designed canal. The confluence with the Moskva River runs in two separate tunnels, each near the Great Stone Bridge and the Great Moscow Bridge .
Originally, the Neglinnaja was part of the cityscape of the Russian capital, as it flows through its historic city center and flows into the Moskva in the immediate vicinity of the Kremlin . However, since it often overflowed the banks of the Moskva when the water levels were higher, causing flooding, it was diverted into an underground pipe for the first time in 1819, which stretched over three kilometers to the mouth. A little later, near the mouth of the river, the Alexander Gardens were created on the site of the former river bed . In the 1960s and 1970s, the underground pipeline was renewed and further extended. Since then, the river has been completely underground; only the mouth near the southern Kremlin wall can be seen from the outside.
The course of the Neglinnaya River gave some of Moscow's historic streets their names that still exist today. For example, the Trubnaya Square (Russian Трубная площадь ), literally Rohrplatz , is called after the underground pipe through which the Neglinnaja flows. The Kuznetsky Most (Russian Кузнецкий мост ) is reminiscent of a former bridge over the river ( Most = bridge) and the Neglinnaja Street (Russian Неглинная улица ) runs along a section of the former river bed of the Neglinnaja.
Web links
- http://ochevidec.net/?id=1164 - Photo gallery of the underground collector