Leninsky Avenue (russian: Ле́нинский проспе́кт "Leninsky prospekt") is a major
avenue
Avenue or Avenues may refer to:
Roads
* Avenue (landscape), traditionally a straight path or road with a line of trees, in the shifted sense a tree line itself, or some of boulevards (also without trees)
* Avenue Road, Bangalore
* Avenue Road, ...
in
Moscow
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,
Russia
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, that runs in the south-western direction between
Kaluzhskaya Square in the central part of the city through
Gagarin Square to the
Moscow Ring Road
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. It is a part of the
M3 highway which continues from Moscow to
Kaluga
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and
Bryansk
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to the border with Ukraine, and provides connections with
Kyiv
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and
Odessa
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. It is also a part of the
European route E101
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Route
*: Moscow - Kaluga - Bryansk - border with Ukraine
*: border with Russia - Hlukhiv - Ki ...
connecting Moscow and Kyiv.
It is the second-widest street in Moscow after
Leningradsky Avenue
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. Its width varies between 108 and 120 metres.
Location
Leninsky Avenue continues north beyond
Kaluzhskaya Square as
Yakimanka Street and southwest beyond the Ring Road as
Kievskoye Highway.
Oktyabrskaya,
Leninsky Prospekt,
Novatorskaya, and
Troparyovo
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are the only four metro stations located at the avenue, the second one being named after the avenue itself.
The major intersections are with the
Zhitnaya Street/
Krymsky Val
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(Kaluzhskaya Square),
Avenue of 60th Anniversary of October Revolution
Avenue or Avenues may refer to:
Roads
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* Avenue Road, Bangalore
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and
Kosygina Street (Gagarin Square, where the avenue also crosses the
Moscow Little Ring Railway
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Built between 1902 and 1908 as ''MOZD'' (''Moscow Encircle Railway'', russian: ...
and the
Third Ring Road),
Universitetsky Avenue,
Lomonosovsky Avenue
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,
Obrucheva Street/
Lobachevskogo Street, as well as
Vernadsky Avenue Vernadsky, Vernadskiy and Vernadskij may refer to:
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** Vernadskiy (crater), lunar crater
** Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine
** Vernadsky Research Base, a Ukra ...
.
In terms of the administrative division, Leninsky Avenue runs through
Yakimanka,
Gagarinsky,
Lomonosovsky,
Obruchevsky,
Prospekt Vernadskogo,
Tyoply Stan, and
Troparyovo-Nikulino Districts.
History
The location of the current avenue has been a road since before the 18th century. Only the area between Kaluzhskaya Square and Kaluzhskaya Zastava Square (currently Gagarin Square) was then included into Moscow, and the name of this stretch was Bolshaya Kaluzhskaya Street. Construction was active in that area between the 18th century and the 1940s. The road continued further as Kaluzhskoye Highway, and then as the highway from Moscow to Kyiv. The three stretches were merged in 1957, and the street was given the name of
Vladimir Lenin
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. In the 1940s and the 1950s construction took place along the stretch between Gagarin Square and
Kravchenko Street.
Notable landmarks
In the vicinity of the avenue there are landmarks as such as
Palace of Pioneers
Young Pioneer Palaces or Palaces of Young Pioneers and Schoolchildren were youth centers designated for the creative work, sport training and extracurricular activities of Young Pioneers and other schoolchildren. Young Pioneer Palaces originat ...
and
Lebedev Physical Institute
The Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (LPI RAS or just LPI) (in russian: Физи́ческий институ́т имени П.Н.Ле́бедева Российской академии наук (ФИАН)), situated ...
.
Public transportation
The stretch between Kaluzhskaya Square and
Miklukho-Maklay Street was covered by
trolleybus
A trolleybus (also known as trolley bus, trolley coach, trackless trolley, trackless tramin the 1910s and 1920sJoyce, J.; King, J. S.; and Newman, A. G. (1986). ''British Trolleybus Systems'', pp. 9, 12. London: Ian Allan Publishing. .or troll ...
traffic. The whole avenue is covered by public bus traffic, though the routes typically take short stretches of the avenue, and there is no single route which travels through the whole length of the avenue.
References
Streets in Moscow
Roads in Moscow
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