All pedestrian areas of Moscow - from 2012 to 2015

It is very interesting to walk around the center of Moscow, where everything breathes old times. Being on some small street with a nice little church, you can not help thinking that you've got into the centuries past, and it's hard to believe that the streams of powerful cars are racing alongside and the glass masses of high-rise buildings are hanging out. What are the names themselves: Zamoskvorechye, Kitai-Gorod or Okhotny Ryad!

And if still places on which you wander, are a pedestrian zone, it in general double pleasure!

In the historic center of Moscow, many streets have received pedestrian status. Developed entire routes for hiking, during which at every step there are places of interest and the most beautiful places of our capital. On the way you can relax and have a bite at many cafes, restaurants, and also buy souvenirs.

What is a pedestrian zone?

Pedestrian areas are created in places of greatest concentration of people:

- in areas with a large number of historical monuments:

- where there are many shopping centers, service companies, cultural institutions.

On such streets - the high intensity of pedestrian flows, because of what is here completely or partially limited by the possibility of traffic and parking cars.

The pedestrian areas of Moscow are organized in the city center on streets that have historical and cultural value not only for the Russian people, but for the whole world. Most of the architectural monuments are concentrated here, there are natural recreation areas, museums, theaters.

Stages of development of pedestrian areas in Moscow

After the Arbat, which became a pedestrian street in the eighties and nineties, the walking zones began to develop only in 2012.

This year in the capital the status of pedestrian zones was appropriated to Kamergersky and Stoleshnikov lanes, Kuznetsky Most, Rozhdestvenka.

In 2013 the pedestrian areas of Moscow were replenished:

1. Street Nikolskaya (between the Kremlin passage and the Lubyanka Square).
2. New Arbat (between Nikitsky and Novinsky boulevards) - here only the sidewalks were updated.
3. Petrovka - houses on the side of the street with odd numbers.
4. Tverskoy proezd (between Bolshaya Dmitrovka and Tverskaya Square).
5. The area next to the hotel "Moscow" - Revolution Square and the space bounded by the Okhotny series, the Theater and Kremlin thoroughfares.
6. Klimentovsky, Lavrushinsky, Bolshoy and Maly Tolmachevsky alleys, the Kadashevskaya embankment, the Ordinsky deadlock and the Swamp area.
7. Patriarchal ponds.
8. Crimean embankment.
9. 4-kilometer zone, going from Shabolovka and Serpukhov rampart to the monument of Daniel of Moscow.

In 2014, Moscow's pedestrian areas were established for:

1. Friday spot.
2. Pokrovke.
3. Maroseyke.
4. Street Zabelin (between Solyansky passage and Starosadsky lane).
5. The route for walks more than 6 km long between the Gagarin and Europe squares (near Kievsky Station): Leninsky Prospekt - Neskuchny Garden - Andreevsky Bridge - Frunzenskaya Street - Komsomolsky Prospekt - Holesunova - Plyushchikha - Bogdan Khmelnitsky Bridge.

The pedestrian zones of Moscow were listed above . The scheme will help in organizing an independent trip. It is fully described below.

New pedestrian zone in Moscow

In September 2015, walking areas were added, including:

1. Large Ordynka, having increased the existing zone (between the Small Moskvoretsky bridge and the Serpukhov square).
2. Bolshaya and Malaya Nikitskaya, Bolshaya and Malaya Bronnaya and Spiridonovka, which formed the walking zone "Kremlin - Garden Ring".
3. Myasnitskaya street.
4. Kaluga area and the territory of the October tunnel.
5. Triumphal Square.
6. Streets located in the area of the new children's store in Lubyanka: Kuznetsk Bridge, Theater Passage, Bol. Lubyanka, Rozhdestvenka, Cannon, Neglinnaya.
7. Novodevichy and Luzhnetskaya embankments.
8. Novoslobodskaya and Dolgorukovskaya streets.
9. Great Yakimanka, Sretenka.
10. Large Ordynka (between the Small Moskvoretsky Bridge and Serpukhov Square

Pedestrian zones in Moscow: plans for the near future

1. Until the end of 2016, the government of the capital decided to make a comfortable place for entertainment and recreation of citizens and visitors of the city from the Revolution Square instead of the former huge parking lot by connecting existing walking areas: from Nikolskaya street to Red Square and from Kuznetsk Most to Bolshaya Dmitrovka. This will involve the use of space from the Metropole to the Kitaygorodskaya wall. On the first floor of the Metropole will be located all kinds of cafes and shops.
2. On the Great Yakimanka and Sretenka, work is planned on changing their appearance.
3. The new pedestrian areas of Moscow: the Crimean embankment is the first step towards the formation of a territory for walks of townspeople along the Moscow River from Vorobyovy Gory to Neskuchny Garden, Gorky Park and the Boulevard Ring.
4. Projects are being developed to create pedestrian areas in the areas adjacent to Petrovka, Plyushchikha, Pyatnitskaya, Leninsky and Komsomolsky Prospects.