🚶 Pyatnitskaya Street

Zamoskvorechye's main street with low-rise 19th-century houses, churches and cafés on the ground floors.

The street is named after the Church of St Paraskeva Pyatnitsa, known from 1564; in the 15th–16th centuries it was called Bolshaya, the road to Serpukhov and Tula.
The Church of St Paraskeva Pyatnitsa was demolished in 1934, and in 1943 the vestibule of Novokuznetskaya metro was built on its site.
In 1857 Leo Tolstoy lived at No. 12 after the defence of Sevastopol.
The House of Radio operates at No. 25, with studios of Orfey, Govorit Moskva and other radio stations.
Sytin's printing house at Nos. 71–73 was built in 1903 with the participation of the engineer Vladimir Shukhov; Sergei Yesenin worked there in 1913.
The Halperin trading house at No. 13 was built in 1908 by Fyodor Shekhtel.
The Church of Pope Clement at the corner of Klimentovsky Lane is Zamoskvorechye's largest church, a monument of late Baroque.