🚶 Ostozhenka Street

A street from the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour to the Moskva River with 19th-century mansions and upscale new buildings.

The name comes from the Ostozhye tract: haystacks used to be stacked on the river's flood meadows.
From 1935 to 1986 the street was called Metrostroyevskaya: the first metro line was built under it by the cut-and-cover method.
In 1986 Ostozhenka was the first Moscow street to get its historic name back.
No. 37 was the home of Ivan Turgenev's mother, where the story "Mumu" is set; since 2009 the house has held the writer's museum.
Mansion no. 21 looks like a medieval castle in miniature: Lev Kekushev built it for his own family in 1900–1903.
The corner turret of no. 3/14 was nicknamed "the wineglass" because it looks like an upside-down glass.
No. 41 (1925–1928) was the first multi-story residential building in the USSR with monolithic reinforced-concrete structures.

Part of these routes