Novo-Ryazanskaya Street Garage

The horseshoe garage is a planned by the Soviet architect Konstantin Melnikov and the engineer Vladimir Shukhov Soviet in the years 1926-1927 Great Garage in the Novo- Rjasanskaja Street # 27 in Moscow. The garage has been carried out in the position taken by Melnikov avant-garde style in masonry and covered by a steel structure. It lies in the Krasnosel'skii - city district, near the head station Kazan station.

The two-story garage was planned for 110 trucks per floor, which had to take in reverse the parking positions, so that the space in the building could be used optimally. The building was developed by Asked at an angle of 45 ° to the street entrances and exits. Is the building for workshops and administration between the two ends of the horseshoe.

The horseshoe garage was still used until 2011 as a garage and was the seat of the Moscow Fourth bus depots. The fact that today's buses in Moscow are longer than the trucks of the 1920s, the park rules no longer as effective as provided in Melnikov design. In November 2012 in the converted garage horseshoe opened the Jewish Museum in Moscow.

A second building designed by architect / engineer pair Melnikov / Shukhov is a few years earlier, also in Moscow built Bachmetewskij bus garage, which provides a fundamentally different parking arrangements or arranging for entries and exits.