Street
How the street was “bitten”
The smallest street in the capital is located in the village of Sokol and is named after Venetsianov. You may not notice it not only on the map, but also “in real life”: the street is 48 meters long and 4 m wide. Previously, it was longer and wider - but the most “trump” part was given to the house of the artist A. M. Gerasimov . But during the war, one of the lines of defensive fortifications passed here. It turns out that the shortest street in Moscow managed to defend itself from the fascists, but not from the “capture” of the house of the artist who created pretentious paintings like “Lenin on the Tribune”...
The shortest street is Venetsianova Street in the village of Sokol in the north of the metropolis. Photo: AiF
Other long and short streets
The longest street in Moscow, according to the results of Yandex maps reviews, ranking second in Russia, is the Warsaw Highway. It starts from Bolshaya Tulskaya Street and ends outside the metropolis on the south side.
The highway passes through 8 districts located in three administrative districts:
- Southern administrative district - Donskoy, Nagorny, Chertanovsky Central, Southern and Northern;
- South-Western administrative district - Butovo South and North;
- Novomoskovsky administrative district of Nagatino-Sadovniki.
The modern street was built along the Old Polish Road. The highway received its name in 1950.
A characteristic feature of the Warsaw Highway is that it carries a large number of public transport:
- 5 tram routes;
- 4 trolleybus lines;
- 41 bus routes;
- there are 10 metro stations;
- There are 8 stations and platforms related to the Railway connections.
The main buildings located along the road include institutions and organizations related to social infrastructure, commercial and government organizations.
Among them are:
- In the past, the Danilovskaya manufactory (today there are commercial offices and the Azimut hotel complex).
- Jewish theater "Sholom".
- Several sports institutions, including the capital's center of combat excellence - one of the largest in Europe.
- Academy of Economics and Law.
The longest pedestrian street is Arbat, also known as the historical center of the city, which starts from Arbat Gate Square and ends at Smolenskaya Square. The street has exits from 2 metro stations: Arbatskaya and Smolenskaya.
The pedestrian zone extends for 1.2 km. The street received its name from the area of the same name “Orbat”, located to the west of the Kremlin in the 16th-17th centuries.
In modern times, there are many catering establishments (cafes, restaurants, fast food, canteens), souvenir shops and other shops. This is one of the popular places visited by foreign tourists.
Among the shortest streets are:
- Lubochny Lane , which is located between Malaya Moskvoretskaya Embankment and Balchug Street (center of Moscow). The object received its name back in the 17th century, since this place was famous for the master manufacturers of bast ropes for bridge fastenings. The length of the lane is only 58 m.
- Middle Nastavnichesky Lane is an address unit located in the central part of the metropolis (Tagansky district), starts from Nastavnichesky Lane and ends in a dead end. The length of the object is 60 m. Its former name - Middle Poluyaroslavsky Lane, was given in the 19th century. due to the location of the Poluyaroslavtsev cloth factory on it. In 1938, the lane received a new name in honor of the clergy of the Old Believers.
Boulevard
"F" instead of "M"
The shortest boulevard of the Boulevard Ring in Moscow is Sretensky, only 214 m. It is the one chosen by the most inventive men for first dates: the phrase “Yes, the boulevard is about to end, and we have never kissed” often speeds up the progress of the date . It appeared in 1830 on the site of the demolished walls of the White City. The slope on the outer side is the remnant of the fortress rampart. Fun fact: in the late 1940s, the foundation was laid for a monument to a man - Colonel General Alexander Shcherbakov Nadezhda Krupskaya was erected on it .
The widest and narrowest
In Moscow, in addition to the longest and shortest streets, you can also find the widest highways that are claimed:
- Leninsky Prospekt consists of the large Kaluzhskaya Street, partly of the highway of the same name and Kievskoe Highway. The location of the facility covers 4 districts (Western, Southern, Western-South and Central). The highway originates from Kaluzhskaya Square, ends near the Moscow Ring Road and has a length of 14 km, a width of 108 to 120 m. This is the only radial highway in the Russian capital that does not change its name throughout the entire distance.
- Leningradsky Prospekt (Leningradka) is located in the Northern Administrative District and holds the championship as the widest street in Moscow (up to 120 m). The avenue starts from 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street (from the Belorussky Station area) and ends at the intersection of Alabyan and Baltiyskaya streets (near the Hydroproject Institute). The length of the highway is 5.6 km. The object received its modern designation in 1957 (until then it had been included in the “highway” category since 1924).
The narrowest street in the city is also the shortest - this is Venetsianova. Its width is 4 m and its length is only 48 m.
The object received its name in 1928 in honor of the Russian folklorist artist. Venetsianova Street is located on the territory of the Sokol housing quarter in the Northern Administrative District between houses No. 9 and 11 on Surikov Street. There are only 2 houses on the site, Nos. 3 and 4, and it ends in a dead end.
Bridge
No politics
Nikita Khrushchev said: “Politicians are the same everywhere: they promise to build a bridge where there is no river.” It’s good that the shortest of the capital’s five open metro bridges, Preobrazhensky, was built not for political reasons, but over a real river, the Yauza. The 330 m long bridge was opened on December 31, 1965; it connects Sokolniki and Preobrazhenskaya Square. It got its name from the name of the square, and the square from the area. The area is notable: here Peter I created the legendary Semenovsky and Preobrazhensky regiments, which became the core of the new Russian army, and also tested the “grandfather of the Russian fleet” on the Yauza - his boat.
LO LoveOpium
This street, which is both the shortest and narrowest in Moscow, is located in the village of Sokol. You can miss it not only on the map, but also on the ground - it departs from Surikov Street between houses 9 and 11 and ends in a dead end.
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Photos and text by Alexey Kulikov
1. This is Venetsianova Street, its length is only 48 meters, width - 4 meters. There are only 2 houses on Venetsianova, numbers 3 and 4, both built in the 1920s. In one of them there lives an angry dog, which did not stop barking until I left.
2. Initially it connected two other streets - Surikov and Levitan. The part of the street that has not been preserved was wider than the one we see now. There was a park there. Later, on the site of the park, the house of the artist A. M. Gerasimov was built, as a result of which Venetsianov Street became a dead end. He is just visible at the end of the street on the right side of the picture.
3. View from the dead end to Surikov Street:
4. The street appeared in the 1920s during the construction of the Sokol village, and received its name on April 4, 1928 in honor of the Russian artist Alexei Gavrilovich Venetsianov (1780–1847).
Lyalina Square is the smallest in Moscow
This is the smallest square in the city, the Moscow analogue of St. Petersburg's Five Corners.
The name does not hint at the small size of the area. It arose in the 18th century along Lyalin Lane, one of those that runs nearby. The lane was nicknamed after the name of one of the homeowners - captain Pimen Lyalin, close to Empress Elizabeth Petrovna. Once upon a time, such squares were called not squares, but platforms - they were hidden in the depths of alleys and were considered secondary. The rather famous Dog Playground, destroyed in the 1960s during the construction of New Arbat, looked approximately the same.
5. Lyalina Square is even easy to miss. This is an intersection between four lanes - Lyalina, Barashevsky, Bolshoy and Maly Kazenny
6. At the intersection of the lanes there is a small area of lawn. There are many such squares in European cities, but in Moscow there is only one left. The three-story house was built as a residential building in the mid-19th century.
7. Unfortunately, now the interesting square is completely filled with cars. Because of this, it is impossible not only to photograph something beautifully, but even just to look around.
Of course, this type of square (and many other places in Moscow) is far from the best in relation to the city and its citizens. There should be a fountain here instead of carts. You can set up a small cafe or a retail outlet selling sweets and ice cream. Musicians will perform nearby or artists will sell their paintings. And tourists can sit on the paving stones and enjoy Moscow.
8. Dreaming is not harmful. So far everything is sad, our city is often designed for cars(
9. But at least you can cross the street.
10. The area is mainly built up with apartment buildings from the early 20th century, the owners of which rented out apartments. On one of the five corners there is just such a house built in 1912.
11. On the right you can see a piece of the estate of merchant S.G. Popov from the 1830s, where there were communal apartments in Soviet times. To the left is the former apartment building of N.I. Siluanov, 1902.
12. In the same building there is a cafe “Buloshnaya”, named after the traditions of the Moscow dialect.
Lyalina Square is a small island with views of pre-revolutionary Moscow. Several films and the Jumble series were filmed here. Despite the cars, it is still an interesting place for those who want to know more about the city. The nearest metro stations are Kurskaya and Chistye Prudy.
The shortest street with urban development in Moscow is Lubochny Lane, located near the Novokuznetskaya metro station (58 meters). The longest, if you don’t count the 109-kilometer MKAD, is Varshavskoe Highway (about 15 km to the MKAD).
But the narrowest street in Russia is located in the city of Khasavyurt. This is Sheikh Tajudin Street. At its junction with Toturbieva Street, it is just over a meter wide.
13. Ebenezer Place in the city of Wick in Scotland is considered to be the shortest street on the planet Its length is only 206 centimeters. There is only one building on the street - 1 Ebenezer Place. In 2006, it was included in the Guinness Book of Records. In the photo below, this is exactly it.
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Tags: Moscow, records
Lane
Small, but smart
Regularly, Lubochny Lane tries to take away the title of the shortest street in Moscow from Venetsianova Street. Its length is 58 m, located between the Chugunny and Maly Moskvoretsky bridges. Motivation: Venetsianova does not look like a city street, as it is built up with one-story houses, and Lubochny is located in a densely built-up area... Its name arose in connection with the production of bast (from linden bast) ropes here, which were used to fasten parts of the floating bridge across the Moscow River. In general, Lubochny is also undoubtedly a record holder, but not as a street, but as the shortest lane. The next ones are Sredny Nastavnichesky (63 m) and Maly Ordynsky (67 m).
Daev Lane
It is difficult to call it the shortest in the literal sense of the word (after all, the length of the lane is as much as half a kilometer), but we can consider that this is the shortest street in Moscow by name. It has only 4 letters, while other streets in Moscow have names of at least 5 letters.
Daev Lane is located in the Central District between Sretenka and Sakharov Avenue. Over its long history, the lane has repeatedly changed the names given to it in honor of prominent figures of one time or another. The modern name was given to it by the homeowner and major official of the 19th century, Pyotr Daev.
Knowing such unusual facts as the shortest street in Moscow, you can always show off your erudition or extraordinary information that is interesting in any company.
Monument
Bee-pig
One of the modest-sized monuments in the capital is located in Kuzminki. This is a bronze bee Kuzya (the height of the lowest hexagonal pillar of the monument, the pillars imitate honeycombs, is 10 cm). They say that it was no coincidence that the bee was placed in “Kuzminki” - this was the “apiary land” of the former mayor. They also say that a businessman from Mtsensk tearfully begged the capital’s administration to sell the “bee monument,” explaining that he urgently needed it: after all, the name of the city, translated from Vyatichi, is “bee.” Muscovites did not sell Kuzya (named after the park). By the way, the small-looking insect is cast from heavy bronze and weighs like a pig - 25 kg.
Stoleshnikov Lane
Another beautiful Moscow street was called Rozhdestvenskaya and introduced some confusion into the city list. In fact, at the same time, 2 streets with the same names ran parallel. Considering this fact disgraceful, the mayors renamed it Stoleshnikov Lane, since it housed the workshops of weavers making tablecloths. The change of name did not change the essence of the street as one of the important trading areas. At the beginning of the 19th century, it looked very nice, built up with two-level houses, in the ground floors of which there were trading shops. During the fire of 1812, it burned out almost completely and construction was carried out using bricks. During Soviet times, the most famous shops were located here. Many buildings of historical and architectural value have been preserved:
- 17th century chambers in Shubin;
- Kozhin estate;
- apartment house of the Karzinkins merchants.
