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On the Kremlin borders Red Square, which main place of Moscow, on which the Lenin mouse oleum is. The name is derived from the Russian Krasnaja Ploschtschad. The designation Red Square is not politically (from the time of the Soviet Union) motivated and does not refer not to the color of the Kremlin walls and piles up, their painting up to 19. Century was white. The designation originates from that 16. Century, and actually means "beautiful place". Although krasnaja on oldRussian "beautifully" meant, the main meaning of this word in the today's Russian one became "red". The designation of the place is understood mostly also about the Russians in the new sense and translated accordingly in German with "red". Beside the place are some graves. Into the Kremlin wall urns with the ash of famous personalities from politics, science and culture are let in; for example of Josef Stalin and Juri Gagarin. On Red Square stand the Basilius cathedral, establish 1561, as well as a monument for Kusma Minin and prince Dmitri Poscharski, the leaders of the people resistance of Nischni Nowgorod and hero of the war of liberation against the Polish-Byelorussian intervention at the beginning 17. Century; the monument (see for this Minin and Poscharski monument) was finished 1818 by Iwan Petrowitsch Martos (1754-1835). At the Kremlin wall the tomb unknown quantities of the soldier is, one 1967 established honour mark for the pleasures of the Second World War in the Alexander garden. Completely in the proximity of the Kremlin and Red Square, adjacent on the former hotel Rossija, some the oldest buildings of stones of the Kitai Gorod, the Muscovite old part of town, received remained - among them buildings of the old Zarenhofs, builds between 16. and 18. Century, the house of the Bojaren Romanow, the Annen church from that 15. Century as well as other interesting churches and houses.
The way after after Twer and continued to sink Petersburg takes here, only a few hundred meters from the Kremlin wall far away, its beginning. Here once Tatjana Larina brought, the heroine in of the novel in verses "Eugen Onegin" from Alexander Puschkin (1799-1837), into the city. In the 1930er and 1940er years the road was extended and was moved with new buildings cultivated, some old by their location and shifted into the depth of the residential areas. The road is today an assembly point of luxurioesen hotels, bars, restaurants and retail businesses. 1782 were established here after a draft of the architect Matwei Fjodorowitsch Kasakow (1733-1812) the city hall of the city Moscow. Opposite the city hall the rider fixed image of the founder of the city Juri Dolgoruki rises. The monuments of the Russian poets Alexander Puschkin and Vladimir Majakowski (1893-1930), manufactured by the sculptors Alexander Opekuschin 1880 and/or Alexander Kibalnikow 1958, stand at the crossing of the road with the boulevard and for the garden ring.
Roads and places of the town centre frame numerous further building and historical monuments 15. to 18. Century. End 16. Century the center of Moscow surrounded 30 towers with nine kilometers are enough and a counting stadtmauer, which did not remain. In its place the boulevard ring developed. Beyond the stadtmauer the city moved additionally an about 16 kilometer long earth barrier with palisaden and wooden military towers. Today the garden ring marks the former process of the barrier ditch, which star shaped the largest roads of Moscow go off. The Komsomolskaja place something outside of the garden ring represents the main railway gate of the capital and is one of the most animated places of Moscow. From the three here convenient stations railroad lines run apart after different directions. The building ensemble of the place is impressing. In his creation famous architects participated. Konstantin clay/tone sketched finished Nikolai station (today Lenin grader station) to the 1851, Fjodor Schechtel the Jaroslawler station of 1904, Alexei Wiktorowitsch Schtschussew the 1926 opened Kasaner station and the club building and Leonid Poljakow the 28-geschossige hotel "Leningradskaja" from 1953.
Four kilometers northwest from the Kremlin the momentarily largest building project is in Europe. Already into the 1990er years one had dreamed in Moscow about a "Russian Manhattan", but because of shortage of money the project was put on the ice. With the economic recovery and finished by private investments in the year 2001 the first wolkenkratzer, now are nearly all projects in the building. Thus the enormous demand of the office buildings in Moscow should be covered. The completion of all buildings is planned for the year 2012, and the costs amount to over twelve billion US dollar. To Moscow town center belongs also the highest office building of Europe, "Federazija", on German "federation". On 9 February 2005 the foundation-stone for 448 meters high buildings was put. On the completion in the year 2007 one counts. Record owner is so far with 264.1 meters height of the triumph Palace in Moscow. The master planning for the two towers in Moscow took place via the German architect partnership Peter P. Schweger & Sergei Tschoban. The higher of the two towers will cover 93 floors. In the building in the form of two pointed sails office space, dwellings, a hotel, a Fitnessklub with swimming pool and an aquarium will be.
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