From the Metro to Marshal Rokossovsky Boulevard: History and Modernity
A walk from the metro station through the Podbelsky passages to the boulevard and the monument
Stories along the route
Бульвар Рокоссовского (станция метро) · 0.0 km
You are standing by a station that until 2014 bore a completely different name — Ulitsa Podbelskogo. Picture it: 1990, Moscow, and this terminus of the north-eastern radius of the Sokolnicheskaya line is opening.
Мытищинский путепровод (Москва) · 0.5 km
You are standing beneath a structure that every day lets thousands of wheels, rails, and footsteps pass over it.
6-й проезд Подбельского · 1.1 km
You are standing in a place whose name sounds like a riddle — Sixth Podbelsky Passage. But let's forget about the numbers for a second and focus on the word 'passage' itself.
Бульвар Маршала Рокоссовского · 2.6 km
Imagine: you're standing on a boulevard that once began in a completely different place. Until the mid-1980s, the house numbering ran from Pogonny Proyezd and ended at the modern 7th Podbelsky Proyezd — that is, in the d…
Памятник Константину Рокоссовскому (Москва) · 3.0 km
You are standing before the bronze marshal, who seems to have just ridden out of that legendary June Moscow of 1945.