Boulevard Ring
The Boulevard Ring (Russian: Бульва́рное кольцо́; transliteration: Bulvarnoye Koltso) is Moscow's second innermost ring road (the first is formed by the Central Squares of Moscow running along the former walls of Kitai-gorod). Boulevards form a semicircular chain along the western, northern and eastern sides of the historical White City of Moscow; in the south the incomplete ring is terminated by the embankments of Moskva River.
The first of the boulevards, Tverskoy Boulevard, emerged in 1796, but the ring was completely developed in 1820s, after the disastrous 1812 fire. The Ring replaced the medieval walls of the White City in the 1820s. The wall itself was razed in 1760, and despite the royal decrees to keep the site clear, the area was soon built over with private and state property. The Fire of Moscow destroyed many of those buildings, allowing the city planners to replace them with wide green boulevards.
In the 20th century, the width of the Boulevard Ring was expanded, as the formerly paved areas along the Pokrovsky Boulevard and Strastnoy Boulevard were planted with trees. Plans to complete the ring through Zamoskvorechye never materialized, however. These plans to properly terminate the ring through Yakimanka and Zamoskvorechye districts, proposed in 1935, periodically resurface in city planners' discussions.
List of boulevards
Gogolevsky Boulevard | Nikitsky Boulevard | Tverskoy Boulevard | Strastnoy Boulevard |
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Petrovsky Boulevard | Rozhdestvensky Boulevard | ||
Sretensky Boulevard | Chistoprudny Boulevard | Pokrovsky Boulevard | Yauzsky Boulevard |
See also
- Garden Ring in Moscow
- Third Ring Road in Moscow
- Moscow Ring Road in Moscow
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- Kremlin Ring
- Boulevard Ring
- Garden Ring
- Third Ring Road
- Chord Ring
- Moscow Ring Road
- Central Ring Road
- Moscow Small Ring Road
- Entuziastov Highway
- Nosovikhinskoye Highway
- Ryazansky Avenue
- Volgogradsky Avenue
- Lyublinskaya Street
- Relief road for Lyublinskaya Street
- Kashirskoye Highway
- Lipetskaya Street
- Varshavskoye Highway
- Sevastopolsky Avenue
- Profsoyuznaya Street
- Leninsky Avenue
- Vernadskogo Avenue
- Michurinsky Avenue
- Generala Dorokhova Avenue
- Mozhayskoye Highway
- Northern relief road for Kutuzovsky Avenue
- Rublyovskoye Highway
- Marshala Zhukova Avenue
- Volokolamskoye Highway
- Leningradskoye Highway
- North-Eastern Chord
- Dmitrovskoye Highway
- Altufyevskoye Highway
- Yaroslavskoye Highway
- Shchyolkovskoye Highway
- Bagration Avenue [ru]
- Fourth Ring Road [ru]
- Businovskaya Interchange [ru]