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      🚶 Novy Arbat

      A wide 1960s avenue with "book" high-rises, the Oktyabr cinema and the old Church of St Simeon the Stylite.

      Novy Arbat
      © Крылов Иван · CC BY-SA 4.0
      Novy Arbat
      © Alexander Baranov from Montpellier, France · CC BY 2.0
      • From 1963 to 1990 the street was part of Kalinin Prospekt, and Muscovites called it "Kalininsky".
      • Building the avenue wiped out Sobachya Ploshchadka, Sobachy Lane and Krechetnikovsky Lane.
      • The ensemble was built in 1962–1968 to a design by a group of architects led by Mikhail Posokhin.
      • The north side has five 24-story residential towers of 176 apartments each, the south side four 26-story "books" on an 800-meter podium.
      • Residents' terraces were planned on the roof of the podium, but after Kennedy's assassination in 1963 the "books" were given to ministries.
      • In August 1991 three defenders of the White House died in the tunnel under Novy Arbat.

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      • On foot from the Kremlin to the City
      • New Arbat, the White House and dinner above the City

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