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4 unusual facts about Garden Ring


Bolshoy Ustinsky Bridge

It is the only major downtown bridge that retains tram traffic (routes A, 3, 39 – the last and only tram line inside Garden Ring).

Garden Ring

Although Boris Godunov, de facto regent of Russia, prevented Crimeans from taking the city north of Moskva River, he anticipated future raids and arranged construction of another defence ring.

In 1944, the ring saw a march of thousands of German prisoners, captured during Operation Bagration.

Illarion Ivanov-Schitz

In 1922-1925, when most architects were unemployed, he had real construction jobs, expanding apartment buildings in Tverskoy Boulevard and the Eye Hospital on the Garden Ring.


Mosfilmovskaya Street

Being outside the Garden Ring (Садовое Кольцо), which encircles central Moscow, the street runs south-west across a residential area between the Moskva River and its tributary Setun River (Сетунь).


see also

Nikitskaya Street

Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street, radial street that runs west from Mokhovaya Street to Garden Ring in Moscow