Zaryadye

2018

Yuri Luzhkov criticized the Zaryadye park

The implementation of an alternative project of the Zaryadye park in the very center of Moscow would be a much better solution. This opinion was expressed in an interview in December 2018 by the former mayor of the capital, Yuri Luzhkov. According to him, he was rooting for this project, but it could not be implemented "due to the meanness of some federal officials."

According to Luzhkov, the alternative concept of the Zaryadye park provided for "the reconstruction of this historical microdistrict in the appearance that corresponded to the appearance of old Moscow." "The project provided for hotels, several concert halls for different directions of music, from the opera to the modern stage. A large amount of greenery, a radial structure, was provided. One of the rays went to the Kremlin, the other to a skyscraper on Kotelnicheskaya embankment, the third had a view of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. That is, being at the crosshairs of these rays, you could see Kotelniki, the Kremlin, and the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, "said Yuri Luzhkov

This project was developed by a group of outstanding modern architects from Russia and abroad, including Norman Foster, the ex-mayor of Moscow noted. "It was a unique and beautiful project with underground space, the structure of which exactly repeated the old Zaryadye. It was approved by the city's architectural council, and the public architectural council, and even by such a fighter for the traditional architecture of Moscow as Alexei Komech, "he recalled

Zaryadye Park entered the list of 100 best places in the world

Zaryadye Park, opened in the very center of Moscow in September 2017, was included in the list of 100 best places on the planet. The corresponding rating was published by Time magazine. "Huge parks, central, but at the same time magnificent and official, have become the main feature of large Soviet cities. But not Zaryadye is the first large-scale park in Moscow created over the past 50 years, "the publication says.

Among the places with which the capital park was on the same list were the Louvre branch in Abu Dhabi designed by Jean Nouvel and the Binhai District Library in Tianjin, China, created by the MVRDV architectural bureau. When compiling the rating, the publication relied on the opinion of its correspondents around the world and the assessment of 12 independent experts. Among the criteria for assessment in the publication, in particular, are named quality, originality and innovation.

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st. Varvarka, 1975-1985

1968: Construction of the Rossiya Hotel

1968. Construction of the hotel "Russia"

Hotel "Russia" in Moscow for a very long time was considered the largest hotel in the country. In addition, until the mid-1970s, it was recognized in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest hotel in Europe. This hotel had approximately 3,000 rooms that could accommodate more than five thousand people.

Now on the site of the hotel is Zaryadye Park