Arbat square in Moscow history and today

Arbat square appeared in the last decades of the XVIII century, when the White city was dismantled arbatskie Vorota. It very little resembled the present. The square was formed on the place where he crossed the road to Smolensk and Novgorod.

Why is it called

The Whole neighborhood was built up since the XV century. It was called Arbat (Arabic – “the suburb"). She grew, and in 1808 by the architect Rossi built the beautiful wooden theatre. The performances in it went in both Russian and French. The area is paved, but everything was destroyed by a fire in 1812.

Further development

In the novel “Boyhood” (in the first half of the nineteenth century) Tolstoy described her as a quiet, provincial, with water-carriers, cab drivers sleeping on the shabby carpet. Arbat square was still very dirty. It was a stream Centory. The horses were exhausted, taking out of thick, sodden from the water the soil is heavy carriages or carts. In the 72 year of the XIX century was built here and opened the restaurant "Prague". His Moscow cab drivers began to call “home brew”. Arbat square has attracted in 1902, the merchant Tararykin. He bought and rebuilt the Inn, made it a great restaurant. Loved the intelligentsia: there were organized the famous annual "rubinsteins lunch’, celebrated poet Verhaeren and I. Repin. After the revolution this place many times changed its purpose. Here was the dining room of Mosselprom, a library, and only in 1955, the restaurant was restored. It helped to equip Czechoslovakia. She was brought to the table crystal and chandeliers. "Prague" began to justify its name. In 1909 on the right side of the square Khanzhonkov was one of the first organizers of the Russian film industry, the cinema was opened, which is called “Art”. The auditorium was on the four hundred seats in the lobby was a fountain. Now there is a monument to the first ticket. Cinema repeatedly rebuilt. Now again, as in the Rules, three rooms, a restored balcony. During the reconstruction of the old steps that led to the theater were replaced with new granite. Next put public restrooms with security system. Tickets are sold here, alongside. Maternity hospital the Grauerman – another historic building, which is known because it born Bulat Okudzhava, Kir Bulychev, Andrey Mironov, Alexander Shirvindt, mark Zakharov, Mikhail Derzhavin. Here in Soviet times worked best doctors, midwives, had the most modern equipment. But this building, the activists did not settle. to the Right of the theater stood the market hall, the site of which was built the entrance to the subway “Arbatskaya”. To the 70-th years of the last century the Arbat square was shapeless, it has paved the tunnel area itself is not.

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Modern landscaping

The Area is located in the heart of Moscow, and looked presentable. To the metro station «Arbatskaya” had to squeeze through the narrow passage, because about 20 years old stood next to the illegally built a large two-storey building that blocked the passage of passengers at a very busy station on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line. It was demolished in February 2016. Now the square was made a pedestrian zone. Landscaping Arbat square has affected not only her, but the adjacent street: Znamenka, Holy cross and starovagankovskiy lane. The pedestrian space is almost twenty one thousand square metres was lined with large granite tiles. Its lifetime will amount to more than a dozen years. Put lights and benches. To cover the area of steel one hundred fifty-four of the main lamp, as well as forty four additional torshernye lantern. The air wires are hidden under the ground.

Location Arbatskaya square in Moscow

There, where Gogolevsky Boulevard, Znamenka street and Arbat gates square, is a modern Arbat square. Photo shows part of it. see the cinema «Artistic» and the detail of the entrance to Arbatskaya metro station-Filyovskaya line (the red building in the back). It has the shape of a star with five ends.

When I start the conversion

From may to August 2016 was to change the appearance of the site (Arbat square). Moscow needed a modern, conforming to the spirit of the time, the updated area program “My street”. It touched upon not only this area, but also four surrounding streets. They widened the sidewalks, changed lanes of cars and was replaced by 33.5 thousand sq m of asphalt, arranged convenient Parking so you can walk around the area. Not forgotten, and green spaces. Already planted thirty-one tree and twenty-five shrubs. The square is decorated with benches, flower beds, lawns. Creates a cozy place for walks Muscovites and guests of the capital. Adjacent streets together with the Arbat area has acquired a modern look worthy of the capital of the huge state.