It's very interesting to walk around the center of Moscow, where everything breathes with antiquity. Being on some small street with a cute little church, you involuntarily think that you have fallen into bygone centuries, and you can’t believe that streams of powerful cars are rushing very close by and the glass bulks of high-rise buildings rise. What are the names themselves worth: Zamoskvorechye, Kitay-gorod or Okhotny Ryad!
And if the places you wander around are pedestrian zones, it's double the fun!
In the historical center of Moscow, many streets have received the status of pedestrian streets. Entire routes have been developed specifically for hiking, during which at every step there are sights and the most beautiful places of our capital. Along the way, you can relax and have a bite to eat in numerous cafes, restaurants, as well as buy memorable souvenirs.
What is a pedestrian zone?
Pedestrian zones are created in places with the greatest concentration of people:
- in areas with a lot of historicalmonuments:
- where there are many shopping centers, consumer service enterprises, cultural institutions.
On such streets there is a high intensity of pedestrian flows, due to which the possibility of movement and parking of cars is completely or partially limited here.
Pedestrian zones of Moscow are organized in the city center on the streets of historical and cultural value not only for the Russian people, but for the whole world. Most of the architectural monuments are concentrated here, natural recreation areas, museums, theaters are located.
Stages of development of pedestrian zones in Moscow
After the Arbat, which became a pedestrian street back in the eighties and nineties, walking areas began to develop only in 2012
This year in the capital the status of pedestrian zones was assigned to Kamergersky and Stoleshnikov lanes, Kuznetsky Most, Rozhdestvenka.
In 2013 Moscow's pedestrian zones were replenished:
- Nikolskaya Street (between Kremlin Passage and Lubyanskaya Square).
- New Arbat (between Nikitsky and Novinsky Boulevards) - sidewalks have just been updated here.
- Petrovka - houses on the side of the street with odd numbers.
- Tverskoy passage (between Bolshaya Dmitrovka and Tverskaya Square).
- The area next to the Moskva Hotel - Revolution Square and the space bounded by Okhotny Ryad, Teatralny and Kremlin passages.
- Klimentovsky, Lavrushinsky, Bolshoy and Maly Tolmachevsky lanes, Kadashevsky embankment, Ordynsky dead end andBolotnaya area.
- Patriarch's Ponds.
- Crimean embankment.
- 4-kilometer zone running from Shabolovka and Serpukhov rampart to the monument to Daniel of Moscow.
In 2014, Moscow's pedestrian zones were created at:
- Friday street.
- Pokrovka.
- Maroseyka.
- Zabelina Street (between Solyansky passage and Starosadsky lane).
- The route for walking more than 6 km long between Gagarin and Europe squares (near the Kyiv railway station): Leninsky Prospekt - Neskuchny Garden - Andreevsky Bridge - First Frunzenskaya Street - Komsomolsky Prospekt - Kholzunov Lane - Plyushchikha - Bogdan Khmelnitsky Bridge.
The pedestrian zones of Moscow were listed above. The scheme will help in organizing an independent trip. It is detailed below.
New pedestrian zone in Moscow
In September 2015, walking areas were added, which included:
- Bolshaya Ordynka by increasing the already existing zone (between Maly Moskvoretsky Bridge and Serpukhovskaya Square).
- Bolshaya and Malaya Nikitskaya, Bolshaya and Malaya Bronnaya and Spiridonovka, which formed the promenade area "Kremlin - Garden Ring".
- Myasnitskaya street.
- Kaluga Square and the territory near the Oktyabrsky Tunnel.
- Triumphal Square.
- Streets located near the new children's store on Lubyanka: Kuznetsky Most, Teatralny Proezd, Bol. Lubyanka, Rozhdestvenka, Cannon, Neglinnaya.
- Novodevichy and Luzhnetskaya embankments.
- Novoslobodskaya and Dolgorukovskaya streets.
- Big Yakimanka, Sretenka.
- Bolshaya Ordynka (between Maly Moskvoretsky Bridge and Serpukhovskaya Square
Pedestrian zones of Moscow: plans for the near future
- Until the end of 2016, the government of the capital decided to turn Revolution Square instead of the former huge parking lot into a comfortable place for entertainment and recreation for citizens and city guests by connecting existing walking areas: from Nikolskaya Street to Red Square and from Kuznetsky Most to Bolshaya Dmitrovka. In this case, the space from the Metropol to the Kitaigorod wall will be used. All kinds of cafes and shops will be located on the ground floor of the Metropol.
- On Bolshaya Yakimanka and Sretenka, work is planned to change their appearance.
- Moscow's new pedestrian zones: Krymskaya Embankment is the first step towards creating a territory for city dwellers to walk along the Moskva River from Sparrow Hills to Neskuchny Garden, Gorky Park and the Boulevard Ring.
- Projects are being developed to create pedestrian zones in areas adjacent to Petrovka, Plyushchikha, Pyatnitskaya, Leninsky and Komsomolsky avenues.
