Neglinnaya River

The Neglinnaja (Russian Неглинная ), colloquially Neglinka ( Неглинка ), is a small left tributary of the Moskva River in the center of Moscow. The river is 7.5 km long and runs today exclusively underground in a specially designed channel.

Originally belonged to the Neglinnaja the cityscape of the Russian capital, as it flows through its historic town center and empties into the immediate vicinity of the Kremlin in the Moscow River. However, since they at higher water levels of the Moskva very often overflowed its banks and floods caused thereby, it was the first time in 1819 diverted into an underground pipe that stretched for three kilometers to the mouth. Near the mouth was applied a little later at the site of the former riverbed of the Alexander Garden. In the 1960s and 1970s, the underground piping was renewed and extended further. Since then, the river runs completely underground; only the discharge point near the southern Kremlin wall is seen from the outside.

The course of the river Neglinnaja gave some historic streets of Moscow today to their existing names. For example, is called the Trubnaja Square (Russian Трубная площадь ), literally pipe Platz, after the underground pipe through which the Neglinnaja flows. The Kuznetsk Most (Russian Кузнецкий мост ) is reminiscent of an old bridge over the river (most = bridge) and the Neglinnaja Street (Russian Неглинная улица ) runs along a section of the former riverbed of the Neglinnaja.