Boulevardring

The Boulevard Ring (Russian Бульварное кольцо, Bulwarnoje Kolzo ) is a collective name for a ring road similar sequence of boulevards in Moscow's historic center. The Boulevard Ring consists of a total of ten such boulevards and is, unlike the name suggests, no closed ring, since it is limited to its two southern ends of the Moskva River.

Originally the fortification wall of the so-called White City, as the third protective wall the tsars capital served in the 17th and 18th centuries, in addition to the wall of the Kremlin and Kitai -Gorod of the settlement, at the location of today's Boulevard Ring. She had 27 watchtowers and ten entry and exit gates, to the up to now the names of some places that separate the boulevards remind each other. With the increasing expansion of the city, this wall was no longer needed and was finally demolished in the 1780s. Along its former course boulevards were created in 1796, served for similar among other Parisian boulevards as a model.

The Boulevard Ring is the oldest and smallest ring road of the Russian capital, the road network is based on a backbone of larger ring and radial roads. A little further outside the city center runs of the 19th- century Garden Ring, the city in its current boundaries is surrounded by the ring road MKAD, to relieve strain in recent times, the Third Transport Ring was built and is planned for the near future the construction of the fourth transport ring.