From Baumanskaya Metro to the Yelokhovo Cathedral: History and Architecture
A walk through the old lanes and landmark buildings of the district
Stories along the route
Бауманская (станция метро) · 0.0 km
The station you're standing at could have been called 'Spartakovskaya', and later even 'Yelokhovo', but history decided otherwise.
Палаты Щербакова · 0.5 km
Перед вами не просто старый дом, а настоящий портал в купеческую Москву, которую вы, скорее всего, никогда не видели.
Бауманская улица · 1.3 km
You are standing on a street that, until 1918, was called Nemetskaya — German Street — and that is no accident. It was here, starting in 1652, that the New German Sloboda arose — a place where foreigners invited into Rus…
Школа № 353 имени А. С. Пушкина · 1.5 km
Imagine: you're standing in front of the building where, according to one version, Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin was born.
Богоявленский собор в Елохове · 1.9 km
You are standing before a church that has watched the fate of an entire country change. This is the Epiphany Cathedral at Yelokhovo — a place where prayer never stopped, even in the hardest years.