History of Moscow

The main articles are:

• History of Russia
• Moscow

History of districts, squares and streets of Moscow

• Moscow Kremlin

• Red Square

• Zamoskvorechye

• Sukharevskaya Square

• Babushkinsky district

2023: Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow: 5 UAVs shot down, 3 crashed into houses

5 drones shot down on the approach and on the outskirts of the Pantsir-S anti-aircraft missile and cannon system: in New Moscow, on Rublevka and in the Istra region. 3 crashed into high-rise buildings on Leninsky Prospekt, Profsoyuznaya Street and Atlasova Street.

Some of the drones caught on trees and wires, as they flew at an ultra-low altitude.

It is known about two victims, they did not need hospitalization.

Among the UAVs that attacked Moscow, there is a new model - previously it was not noticed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The aerodynamic scheme "duck," the internal combustion engine on gasoline, and the cumulative charges of the KZ-6 are laid inside. The wingspan is in the region of 4 meters and the theoretical flight range is from 400 to 1000 km. The cost of each such drone is estimated at between $30,000 and $200,000. Electronic suppressors of UAVs against such drones are ineffective, the main way to combat them is to shoot down.

2002

Riots in Moscow after the departure of the Russian national football team from the 2002 World Cup.

2000

Rally against the Second Chechen War. Moscow, spring 2000.

1997

In the Internet cafe, Moscow, 1997

In the video below Arbat Square and everything that happened to it over the years. One building was moved. Arbat market, 2 years after construction, shortened, appeared the lobby of the metro.

1996: Explosion in a trolleybus near the Alekseevskaya metro station

Exploded trolleybus at Alekseevskaya metro station, July 12, 1996, Moscow.

The queue of girls for the competition of models and fashion models in the House of Fashion Vyacheslav Zaitsev. 1996.

1993: Shelling of the White House building with tanks

On October 2, 1993, at 13:00, a rally of supporters of the Supreme Council began on Smolenskaya Square in Moscow. Demonstrators are clashing with police and riot police. During the riots, the Garden Ring near the Foreign Ministry building was blocked for several hours. As a result, opponents of President Yeltsin attack the police and put a barricade on the Garden Ring behind which the wounded are sheltered.

Barricades of supporters of the Supreme Soviet on Smolenskaya Square, Moscow, 1993.

On October 4, 1993, between 7 and 9 am, shelling of the White House building began from guns and heavy machine guns of armored personnel carriers, infantry fighting vehicles and tanks. The building caught fire in the tower area.

The White House is under fire. Moscow. October 4, 1993

At 7 o'clock. 25 min., Destroying the barricades near the House of Soviets, five infantry fighting vehicles broke into the square of Free Russia, which began to shoot people on the barricades and also opened aimed fire on the windows of the House of Soviets.

Onlookers watch from the roof of a house as the White House is stormed, October 4, 1993, Moscow

Meanwhile, in the dark hall of the Council of Nationalities of the de-energized House of Soviets of the Russian Federation, the last meeting of the Congress began with the roll call registration of people's deputies of the Russian Federation. The deputies adopted their political will - an appeal to the citizens of Russia. The seizure of the building of the House of Soviets of the Russian Federation soon followed.

The shootout in the House of Soviets lasted until the evening of October 5, 1993.

House of Soviets of the Russian Federation, Moscow, 1993

According to the commission of the State Duma, during the tragic events, about 200 people were killed, at least 1000 people were injured or injuries of varying severity. According to updated official data confirmed by the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation on July 27, 1994, the death toll was 147 people.

Dispersal of the May Day march of the Communists, Moscow, 1993.

Free rotten potatoes, Moscow, 1993.

1992

Flea market on Lubyanka Square, Moscow, Russia, 1992.

1991

American musical group Metallica, Moscow, 1991.

Putsch

Dismantling of the Dzerzhinsky monument on Lubyanka, Moscow, August 23, 1991.

White House defenders try to stop the tank during the events of the August putsch in Moscow. 1991

1990

"What did you do for perestroika?," Kutuzovsky Prospekt, 1990

On the Garden Ring, Moscow, February 4, 1990.

1989

Demonstration of beach ensembles during preparations for the All-Union beauty contest, Moscow, 1989

Icelandic singer Björk and Maxim Gorky. Moscow, 1989

1988

Warming relations between the USSR and the USA. Muscovites listen to the New Year's greetings of US President Ronald Reagan. Photo by A. Konkov. 1988

Experimental Newspaper Stands, 1988

1983

Nikolsky Old Believer Church at the Belorussky railway station. 1975-1983

1980

Kalinina Avenue (Novy Arbat), 1978-1982

1978

Boni M on Vasilievsky Spusk during a tour in Moscow, December 1978.

1977

Festive illumination on high-rise buildings - "books" on Kalinin Avenue in Moscow, 1977.

1975

1975. Crimean bridge. Photo by B. Loginov.

Gorky Street (Tverskaya), Minsk Hotel, 1975. Author: Mikhail Alexandrov

1973

Vernadsky Avenue. Moscow, 1973

1971

Festive May Day illumination on Kalinin Avenue (now Arbat), Moscow, 1971.

1970

Moscow, 1970.

1969

Moscow, Universitetskiy Prospekt, 1969.

Visitors to the capital's barbershop for reading, 1969

1967

Dzerzhinsky Square. 1965-1967 Author: Tanfel Borisovich Bakman

1967 "Space Conquerors" - a monument in memory of the achievements of the Soviet people in the exploration of outer space, installed on October 4, 1964

Grandmothers crossing the street. Moscow. USSR. 1967

Collective farm square, view of Sretenka. Year: 1963-19

Author: A. Zilov]]

1966

Mayakovsky Square, 1964-1966. Author: Tanfel Borisovich Bakman

Arena Square

1965-1966 Author: Tanfel Borisovich Bakman]]

View of the House of Friendship of Peoples, 1961-1966. Author: Tanfel Borisovich Bakman

MK

Year: 1965-1966. Author: Tanfel Borisovich Bakman]]

Monument to the Conquerors of Space, Moscow, 1966.

1965

Land residents of the village of Semenovskoye against the background of new buildings of Architect Vlasov Street, Moscow, 1965.

Dispersal of protesting Chinese and Vietnamese students in front of the US Embassy on Novinsky Boulevard, Moscow, 1965.

1964: Fidel Castro in Moscow

Cuban leader Fidel Castro rides a slide while visiting Moscow. 1964

1964. Soviet Square. Source: Japanese photo album "USSR 1964."

1963

In the Neskuchny Garden, 1963

1961

Basketball, Moscow, 1961

Citizens drink soda. Moscow, 1961.

1960

Stand showing the accession of new territories to Moscow, 1960

Parade in support of cybernetics. Moscow, May 6, 1960.

1959

Moskvoretskaya embankment, 1959

1958

At the carousel in Sokolniki Park, 1958

Visitors to the Kremlin at the Tsar Cannon. 1958 Photo by B.V. Lukyanova

Soda in the heat. Moscow, 1958

At the Kievsky railway station in Moscow, 1950s.

Sweeper Pl-3, Moscow, 1950s.

1956

At the air show in Moscow, 1956.

On Yauza. Year: 1956. Author: A. Bryanov

British models try Soviet ice cream, Moscow, 1956.

Khrushchev housing renovation, 1956, Moscow.

Decisive move, Tsvetnoy Boulevard, Moscow, 1950s.

1955

House of Unions, 1950-1955.

Manezhnaya Square, Moscow, 1955

At the stop. Leningradskoye highway, near the Sokol metro station, 1955

1954

Pushkin Square. 1953-1954.

Men and women at China City. The picture was taken in 1954 by the French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. He became the first photojournalist to visit the USSR after Stalin's death

1953

Gorky Street. Cinema "Central." Pushkin Square, 1953

1950

Moving the monument to Pushkin on the other side of the square, 1950

1948

Paratroopers over Moscow, 1940s

Lopukhins' estate in Khitrovsky Lane in 1948

1947

Shoemaker on Revolution Square, 1947

1941

Kitaigorod wall in Zaryadye along the embankment

1940-1941]]

1940

Skiers in the Alexander Garden, 1940

1939

Kirova Street (Myasnitskaya). Checking documents at the cab driver, 1939

Pushkin Square, 1939

1938

Washing machines on the streets of Moscow, 1938

The first pool built in the Moscow River, 1938

Intersection of Neglinnaya and Kuznetsk Bridge, 1938

Demolition of Vasilievskaya Square for the construction of a new Moskvoretsky bridge, 1930s

1937

Pushkinskaya (Strastnaya) Square and Strastnaya Monastery, 1937

1936: Dismantling of the Arc de Triomphe near Belorussky railway station

1936. Dismantling of the Arc de Triomphe near the Belorussky railway station

Ilyinsky Voro

1935-1936 Author: Loskutov]]

1935

A group of girls in gas masks during civil defense classes, Moscow, USSR, 1930s.

Kaluga Square from above. Year: 1930-1935

Belorussky railway station square in 1935

One of the plans for the flooding of Moscow in 1935

1934: Destruction of the Sukharev Tower

The Sukharev Tower was destroyed in 1934 as part of the general reconstruction of Moscow.

Pushkin Square. 1934, Author: Naum Granovsky

Nikolskaya Tower Kitay-Gorod. Year: 1934

Tver outpost, 1934

1933

Kuznetsky Most Street, 1932-1933. Old-looking hanging road sign - permitted speed up to 30km/h

Pushkin Square

Year: 1930-1933 Author: B. Ignatovich]]

1930

Sukhareva bash

Year: 1930]]

View of the Kitaigorod Wall from the inside. Directions from Lubyanskaya Square to Mal.Cherkassky Lane (right). 1925-1930.

Passionate Square

Year: 1930]]

1929

Myasnitsky Gate, 1921-1929

1928

Joseph Stalin walks in Moscow. Photo - late 1920s.

Triumphal Square in Moscow, 1926-1928. The dome is a circus, on the site of which the Satire Theater will later appear

Laundry on the Moskva River. Year: 1928. Author: Alexander Rodchenko

1926

Passionate Square

1925-1926]]

1925

Barbarian Tower on Barbarian Gate Square. The tower is residential, the stove is heated. Until the demolition, it had a large communal apartment, 1925

Myasnitsk St.

in 1925]]

Nudist beach in the city center

It was organized by the society "Down with Shame!." Its participants believed that nudity is a visual personification of universal equality.

Nudist beach on the Moskva River, 1920s.

In 1925, at the XIV Congress of the CPSU (B.), N. I. Bukharin, as part of a campaign against the opposition, G. E. Zinoviev criticized the moral decay of youth, calling the activities of society "Down with Shame" among examples of such degradation. According to the memoirs of Varlam Shalamov, the People's Commissar of Health N. A. Semashko made an article in Izvestia about the harmful health consequences of walking without clothes in a large northern city. The police began to resolutely suppress the actions of the society and achieved a complete cessation of them.

1920

Village carpenters at the Smolensk market in Moscow, 1920

1918

In 1918, a monument to Radishchev stood on Triumfalnaya Square. It is considered an exact copy of the bust that was made for Petrograd, where, according to the original plan, it should have been opened earlier, but it turned out that it appeared in Moscow two weeks before the desired date. In the 1930s, the bust of Radishchev was removed. Now it is in the Museum of Architecture named after A.V. Shchusev.

Demolition of the monument to Alexander III in Moscow, 1918.

Return of the capital from Petrograd to Moscow

On March 12, 1918, the capital of Russia was moved from Petrograd to Moscow.

1917

Arbat. Revolution from the window Year: 1917. Author: Gromov Peter Ivanovich

Tver Square. Monument to General M. D. Skobele

Year: 1912-1917]]

Kremlin embankment, 1911-1917

Winter view from Moscow River to the Kremlin. 1900-1919

1914

Garden ring from Taganka towards the Kursk station, 1914

1913

Flower beds at the Vitali Fountain, 1913

View of Starokonyushenny Lane in Moscow in 1913. Author: E. Gauthier-Dufaye

1912

View of Sretenka Street near the Sukhareva Tower, photographer: Alexander Alexandrovich Gubarev, Moscow province, Moscow, 1912.

Resurrection Gate of China City (Iver Gate), 1912 Author: K. Bullah

Nikolsky Gate (aka Vladimir or Sretensky Gate) of the Kitai City, the Church of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God and the Chapel of St. Panteleimon. The gates served as milks of passage and passage from Nikolskaya Street to the old Lubyanskaya Square. 1912 g

1910

Vladimir (Nikolsky) Gate in 1900-1910 - an unsaved structure in the walls of Kitai-Gorod in Moscow, which opened the passage and passage from Nikolskaya Street to the old Lubyanskaya Square.

Passionate Square

in 1900-1910]]

1909

View of Myasnitskaya from Lubyanskaya Square in 1907-1909

Hunted Rye

1909 By Andrew Murray Howe]]

1908

View of the Kremlin from the old Stone Bridge during the 1908 flood

1907

Lubyanskaya Square, 1906-1907

1903

Sbitenshchik on Theater Square, 1903

1901

1898

Trade near the walls of the Moscow Kremlin, 1898

Vasilievskaya Square. 1898. Photo by Peter Pavlov.

Mokhovaya street, Moscow, 1898

1890s. Lubyanskaya Square.

1897

Iversky Vorota, Moscow, 1895-1897. Author: Pyotr Pavlov

1896

Fountain on Lubyanka Square, 1896

Passion Square in 1896

Moscow, 1896

1892

View of the Kremlin 1891-1892 by A. Reinbot

1890

Rostokinsky Aqueduct, 1890

1889

Resurrection Gate Kitai-Gorod, 1880-1889

1888

Building of public places on Voskresenskaya Square, 1888. Author: "Scherer, Nabgolts and K"

View of the Arbat from the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in 1888

1887

View of Vozdvizhenka (from Mokhova), 1887 Author: "Scherer, Nabgolts and K"

Kuznetsk mo

in 1880-1887]]

View of Ilyinka (from the exchange to the Kremlin), 1887. Author: "Scherer, Nabgolts and K"

3rd view of Kitai-gorod, 1887

1886

Old Middle trading rows on Varvarka. By Scherer, Nabgolz and Co. 1886

Middle city rows (view along Khrustalny Lane from Varvarka). 1883-1886 Author: "Scherer, Nabgolz and K"

Middle city rows - view along Ilyinka from the northeast corner, 1886

Author: "Scherer, Nabgolz & K"]]

Upper city rows - Middle Transverse Passage (from the monument to Minin and Pozharsky), 1886 Author: "Scherer, Nabgolts and K"

1884

1817: Construction of the Manege designed by Augustine Betancourt

The Moscow Manege - an indoor room for military exercises in cold and inclement weather, a monumental building in the style of classicism, was built in Moscow in 1816-1817 according to the project of Augustine Betancourt.

The arena. Watercolor by Augustine Betancourt

The unique design of rafters and 30 wooden trusses made it possible to make the building 45 meters wide without internal supports, with support only due to walls. For that time, it was a unique engineering solution. The area of ​ ​ the Manezh built was about 7.5 thousand m ², it accommodated more than 2 thousand people.

1814: Construction of a wooden triumphal gate at the Tver outpost

By order of the Moscow mayor in June 1814, the construction of a wooden triumphal gate at the Tver outpost began. Why was this particular location chosen? When the emperor came to Moscow, it was here that the city leaders met him along with a large retinue of representatives of the local nobility and merchants.

1793

Main article: Joseph Hearn

Joseph Hearn. Kremlin

Joseph Hearn. The view of the Kremlin because of the Stone Bridge from Bersenevskaya Embankment. Early 1790s. Paper, watercolor, ink

1739: Michurinsky plan of Moscow

The restoration of the city and all Kremlin churches after the fire of 1737 was led by Ivan Fedorovich Michurin, an architect who worked in the Russian Baroque style. He acted on science: a large team of surveyors under his leadership carried out geodetic surveys of the Kremlin, Kitai-Gorod and the White City. Then the Earthen City, Zamoskvorechye, the area beyond the Earthen City up to the Kompaneysky Rampart were filmed.

As a result of these filming, the plan of Moscow was drawn and it was determined where and how many building materials to import.

The plan was published in 1739 and was called the "Plan of the Imperial Capital City of Moscow."

1737: The Great Fire. About a hundred people died, a quarter of the city's buildings burned down

In 1737, on the feast of the Trinity in Moscow, there was a big fire, which contemporaries nicknamed the Veliky. The Kremlin, the houses and shops of Kitai-Gorod and the White City were on fire. This fire killed about a hundred people and about a quarter of the urban development, which was still wooden.

1709: Celebrating the victory over the Swedes near Poltava

Zubov I.F. [The triumphal gates are built by the works of school teachers]: [print]. - [Moscow, 1709]. - Glued to 2. l.: etching; grav. cutter

1695: Construction of the Sukharev Tower according to the project of Mikhail Choglokov

Sukharev Tower is a monument of Russian civil architecture, built in 1695 in Moscow according to the project of the outstanding Russian architect and artist of the late XVII century and the first quarter of the XVIII century - Mikhail Ivanovich Choglokov at the intersection of the Garden Ring, Sretenka and 1st Meshchanskaya Street (now Mira Avenue).

1638

Plan of the Russian capital of Moscow from the book of Adam Olearius, 1638.

1526

"Muscovites are considered cunning and more deceitful than all other Russians, and in particular they cannot be relied on to fulfill contracts. They themselves know about this, and when they happen to deal with foreigners, then in order to arouse more trust in themselves, they call themselves not Muscovites, but visitors "

(Herberstein "Notes on Muscovy," circa 1526)

1450

Map of archaeological finds in Moscow for centuries at the Museum of Archeology

1237: Principality of Vladimir-Suzdal

Map of Russia on the eve of the Mongol invasion

Age of all buildings. Card

• How-old-is-this.house - online map with age of almost all buildings in Moscow