Leninsky Avenue ( "Leninsky prospekt") is a major
avenue in
Moscow
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,
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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 used to provide connections with
Kiev
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and
Odessa
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. It is also a part of the
European route E101 connecting Moscow and Kiev.
It is the second-widest street in Moscow after
Leningradsky Avenue. 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 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 (Kaluzhskaya Square),
Avenue of 60th Anniversary of October Revolution and
Kosygina Street (Gagarin Square, where the avenue also crosses the
Moscow Little Ring Railway and the
Third Ring Road),
Universitetsky Avenue,
Lomonosovsky Avenue,
Obrucheva Street/
Lobachevskogo Street, as well as
Vernadsky Avenue.
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 Kiev. 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
Pioneers Palace and
Lebedev Physical Institute.
Public transportation
The stretch between Kaluzhskaya Square and
Miklukho-Maklay Street was covered by
trolleybus
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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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