Tschistyje Prudy (Moscow)
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| Geographical location | Moscow , Russia | |
| Tributaries | Ratschka | |
| Drain | Ratschka | |
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| Coordinates | 55 ° 45 '39 " N , 37 ° 38' 41" E | |
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| length | 190 m | |
Tschistyje Prudy ( Russian Чистые пруды , German "clean ponds") is a large pond on the boulevard ring in Moscow , which has arisen from several ponds. The pond gives its name to Chistoprudny Boulevard. It is supplied with water by the Ratschka brook , which today flows through an underground canal over its entire length of 1.86 km.
In the 17th century, the ponds were still known as "dirty puddles" (Russian Поганые лужи ), as the residents dumped their garbage there. After Prince Alexander Menshikov acquired the ponds in 1703, he had them cleaned and renamed them “clean ponds”.
In winter the pond is used by ice skaters.
In 1990 the nearby station of the Moscow Metro was renamed Tschistyje Prudy (previously Kirovskaya ).
literature
- Sigurd Schmidt et al.: Moskwa: enziklopedija . Bolschaja rossijskaja enziklopedija, Moscow 1997, ISBN 978-5-85270-277-7 . (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://idis-moscow.ru: ЧИСТЫЕ ПРУДЫ idis-moscow.ru ( Memento of the original from October 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. From: slovari.yandex.ru, Retrieved May 25, 2011 (Russian)
