🚶 Sofiyskaya Embankment

Софийская наб., от Большого Каменного до Большого Москворецкого моста

An embankment directly opposite the Kremlin: across the river are the walls, towers, the Grand Kremlin Palace and cathedrals, all lit up in the evening.

From 1495 the sovereign's garden lay opposite the Kremlin, and its gardeners lived here, in the Sredniye Sadovniki settlement.
The embankment is named after the Church of St Sophia the Wisdom of God in Sredniye Sadovniki: the 1682 church stands in the courtyard, and the 1860s bell tower faces the river.
The stone embankment was built in the 1830s–1840s to a design by the engineers N. I. Yanshin and A. I. Delvig.
In 1964–1992 it was called Maurice Thorez Embankment, after the leader of the French communists.
The mansion of the sugar magnate Kharitonenko (No. 14) is the residence of the British ambassador.
The embankment was landscaped in 2021.