How many streets in Moscow - the most popular names, the most remarkable and interesting streets of the capital

Like any metropolis in the world, Moscow has many streets - ancient boulevards and new avenues, beautiful embankments and groomed lanes, noisy highways and quiet pedestrian streets. And many of them are noteworthy.

How many streets in Moscow, 2016

Besides the fact that Moscow is a very large city, it is also very old. Many of its streets were laid several centuries ago. And today the capital has nearly 5000 thousand different streets, lanes, boulevards, thoroughfares, highways, avenues and avenues. 3.5 thousand of them are in the capital itself and another 1,300 in New Moscow.

Among them there are as many as five pedestrian streets, the most famous of which is the Arbat. And walk along without risking to meet a parked or rushing car, you can on Stoleshnikov and Kamergersky lanes, School Street and Kuznetsky Most.

And how many streets in Moscow are special, such as embankments, located along the Moscow River. There are seven in all: the Kremlin, Sofia, Moskvoretsky, Luzhnetsk, Bersenevskaya, Andreevskaya and Baltschug.

It should be noted and the ring road, which in the city while 4: Garden, Boulevard, Third Ring Road and MKAD.

Most Common Names

Toponymy, that is, the appropriation of geographical names, the thing is curious and unpredictable, and in many ways illogical. In Moscow, since pre-revolutionary times, it is customary to give the streets names according to the bush principle. That is, there are many thoroughfares or alleys around the street with similar names and numbers. For example, around the Don monastery there is a Don street and several Don alleys.

But it also happens that streets with the same names are not close to each other, as, for example, Parkovaya street. Do you know how many Park streets in Moscow? There are two of them, one in Mitino, and the other in Novo-Peredelkino. Or Field Street - it is located in South Butovo, and three lanes with the same name - in Sokolniki.

But the record for the number of streets with a similar name - street March 8. There are 4 of them in the city, one of the 8 "March" streets is near the metro "Airport", two more are adjacent to it, and the fourth in general in Vnukovo. But the streets on February 23 in the city is not at all.

But most of all in Moscow Projected thoroughfares. How many streets in Moscow with this name exactly, perhaps no one knows. This name is given temporarily to those streets that are allocated to independent city highways or new streets, which is not uncommon for a dynamically developing Moscow.

The longest and shortest streets of Moscow

Just for the title of the shortest street of the capital, two are fighting at once: Venetsianov Street (48 meters long) and Lubochny Lane (58 meters). And if the first one with a stretch can be considered a full-fledged object - it's rather a lane between private houses, then Lubochny Proyezd is, undoubtedly, the shortest street with urban development, and even in the center of the city. The whole lane extends along just one facade of the office building standing on it.

And how many streets in Moscow with record lengths! For example, Profsoyuznaya street is longer than Lubochny proezd 250 times and stretches for 14 kilometers. The street, by the way, was built in 1955. However, she also has a competitor - the Warsaw highway stretches for 21 kilometers, and if we take into account all toponymic objects, then this is the absolute record holder in Moscow.

The widest and narrowest

The title is the narrowest, again, behind Venetsianov Street, since it has a width of only 4 meters. But the widest street of the capital is Leningradsky Prospekt.

It has a width of 120 meters and it is one of the most important transport arteries of the city. It connects the Belorussian station and Sheremetyevo airport, the largest in the country, as well as the Dynamo stadium, several metro stations and other important facilities.

Oldest and Newest

How many streets and squares Moscow has left its centuries-old history. The city certainly has ancient objects that have survived to this day. One of the most ancient today does not quite exist, but it is considered such. This is the Great Street, mentioned in the documents of the 15th century, where in the modern history, namely in the 60s of the last century, the hotel "Rossiya" was built.

Slightly "younger" adjacent to her street Nikolskaya, which was already known in the 17th century and now connects the Red and Lubyanka Square.

But how many new streets in Moscow and which one is the most "fresh", it is very difficult to track, because the city is constantly being built, expanded and reorganized. Every year dozens of new streets are introduced in New Moscow alone. Not everyone is given names at once, many stay for a long time as Projected Passages. In 2016, 15 streets received new names. Today, people register at addresses named after Russian scientists, Nobel laureates, academicians and pilots. In addition, New Moscow finds common names, such as the streets of Udmurt, Pearl, Blagodatnaya and Zabolotye.

Interesting names

Of course, this is subjective, however, there are streets in the capital with names that cause bewilderment or a smile. For example, the street Brick notches. But you just need to find out that there was a brick factory here, and everything falls into place. But Mosneftekip street, also having an administrative name, is read and pronounced not so easily.

Among the complex and Rochdelskaya Street, difficult for Russian reprimand, and the street of 25 Baku commissars, long on pronunciation. But the record holder for the length of the name is still the Central Passage of Khoroshevsky Silver Bora.

It is more pleasant to live on the street in Veseloy, Raduzhnaya or in Solovyino Passage, although there are fewer pleasant names in Moscow.