Kutuzovsky Prospekt
The Kutuzov Prospekt (Russian Кутузовский проспект ) is a major street in Moscow (Russia ) and the initial portion of the highway M1 ( Moschaisker road ).
The prospectus is 8.3 km long and extends from east to west between the New Arbatbrücke across the Moscow River to the orifice of the two roads Rubljower Chaussee and Aminjewoer road, then it runs under the name Moschaisker Chaussee further away from town. The eastern parts of them belong administratively to the Moscow district Dorogomilowo and the portion west of the Victory Square to the district Fili - Dawydkowo, both turn to the administrative district of West. The entire brochure is verkehrlich intensively developed, the roadway has eight to ten tracks and is free of same-level crossings. The prospectus traveled numerous lines of city and intercity buses and trolley buses, the metro stations Kutusowskaja, Park Pobedy and Slavyansky Bulwar have outputs for Kutuzov Prospekt.
By the early 20th century, the section of the Prospectus today Kutuzov was west of the Moscow city boundary ( this crossed the brochure about one kilometer west of the Moskva - shore ) Moschaisker Chaussee (Russian Можайское шоссе ) because this road is the most important link between Moscow and the city Mozhaisk and further west with Smolensk, Minsk and ultimately also represented with large parts of Europe. Within the city limits more the leadership of the Moschaisker road from the present leadership of the prospectus from: Into town travelers reached after passing the city limits with today's Big Dorogomilower road ( Большая Дорогомиловская улица ) to the city center, where they crossed the Moskva River on the Borodino Bridge and continue would travel to the old Arbat up to the Kremlin. The portion of the Kutuzov Prospekt east of the former city limits, which runs north of the Great Dorogomilower street approximately parallel to the selfsame, was postponed until 1957. At the same time the New Arbatbrücke and east towards the city center of New Arbat was it a continuation of the Kutuzov Prospekt. Leveled by the construction of the New Arbat and the eastern section of the Moschaisker highway, at the places, entire neighborhoods and smaller streets were completely or partially dissolved, a linear multi-lane road link between the Kremlin and the western suburbs of Moscow ( was including the formerly independent places Fili and Kunzewo ).
Also in 1957 received the prospectus its present name in honor of Mikhail Kutuzov, an important military leader in the war against Napoleon in 1812, when the Moschaisker road fell to a key role in the defense of Moscow against emerging from the west French. Some structures on the Kutuzov Prospekt remember to this day the events of 1812, the built for the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Borodino round building of Borodino Panorama Museum (Haus 38 on Kutuzov Prospect ) and in the vicinity thereof, the ensemble of the Victory Square with the monumental triumphal arch from a design by Joseph Bové. The section of the prospectus west of the Arc de Triomphe in 1976 in Prospect Marschala Grechko (Russian Проспект Маршала Гречко ) renamed in honor of the recently deceased Soviet Defense Minister Andrei Grechko, 1992 but again part of the Kutuzov Prospekt.
As a major arterial road in Moscow the Kutuzov Prospekt was built from the 1930s intensively in the style of Socialist Classicism, this could be particularly representative houses (example: houses 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 35 ) often high-ranking party officials and statesmen down ( in the 1970s and 1980s, among other Schtscholokow, Brezhnev and Andropov ). For this reason, the prospectus was long regarded as the most prestigious residential area of the Soviet Union and is still known by extremely expensive residential and office space. In addition, the road becomes even today regularly traveled by statesmen (such as by the President on the way between the Kremlin and the residential complex west of Moscow ). Due to the number of lanes and the intersection-free expansion there is in contrast to other major streets of Moscow rarely traffic jams.
A particularly striking building of the Socialist Classicism on the prospectus is finished in 1957, Ukraine Hotel, which opened the prospectus of the New Arbatbrücke from the west. It is one of the built in the postwar years "Seven Sisters", thus a symbol of Moscow architecture of the Soviet era.