Krasnopresnenskaya embankment

 Krasnopresnenskaya embankment (before 1940 — Presnenskaya embankment— - the embankment on the left bank Moscow River in Presnensky district of the Central Administrative District of the city Moscow. Passes under bridges Bagration and Novoarbatsky. It is a continuation of 4th Krasnogvardeisky Lane, passes into Smolenskaya embankment. On the embankment there are Exhibition and Glubokiy pereulok, 1905 Goda Street and Nikolaev. The embankment is constructed of precast reinforced concrete, faced with granite.

Origin of the name

The embankment received its name in 1940 in memory of the armed uprising of 1905. Previously, it was called Presnenskaya Embankment after the Presnya locality and the river of the same name.

Trekhgornaya Manufactory

Moscow City

Moscow

In November 2011, the Department of Construction Moscow has started extending the Krasnopresnenskaya Embankment in the western direction.[1]

Notable buildings and structures

No. 2-House of Soviets of the RSFSR (1965-1979, architects D. N. Chechulin, P. P. Shteller), now — Government House of the Russian Federation

No. 2/1-between Glubokiy Pereulok and Nikolaev Street, the facade of a residential building built in the early 1950s by architect I. I. Loveyko faces the embankment. Initially, it was assumed that the house would become part of a huge residential complex, which was supposed to occupy most of the territory on which the modern House of the Government of the Russian Federation stands[2]. A Soviet diplomat and an American intelligence officer lived in the house and was arrested there and died in 1977.Alexander Ogorodnik ("Trianon").

№ 6 — IFD Kapital

No. 10, p. 1, 6, 7-Electric station of the Trekhgornaya Manufaktura factory, now GT-CHPP Energo:

Main building with turbine and boiler rooms and chemical water treatment tower (1925-1928, architect M. I. Babitsky, engineer A. Sorokin)[3][4];

Unloading shed (1954-1955, architect Z. M. Rosenfeld)[4];

Overpasses 1 and 2, crushing department (1925-1928, architect M. Babitsky, engineers A. Sorokin, V. Lavrov)[4]

No. 12-Sovincenter building (1977-1981, architects V. S. Kubasov, M. V. Posokhin, P. I. Skokan)[5], now the World Trade Center

No. 14-Exhibition Complex (1972-1979, architects M. V. Posokhin, B. I. Thor, L. Kotovoi, N. Schroeter, etc.), now — Expocentre

№ 16 — Bagration Shopping and Pedestrian Bridge (1997, architect B. I. Thor, designer V. I. Traush)

No. 16, page 13 — SUE of the city of Moscow "Center-City"

Church of Seraphim of Sarov.

Transport

50 m from the beginning of the embankment — metro station Moskwa Metro Line 4.svg Exhibition hall, 600 m from the end of the embankment — Moskwa Metro Line 4.svg Smolenskaya street. On the embankment section between Nikolaev Street and Svobodnaya Rossiya Square, the 4 bus goes to the metro stations Moskwa Metro Line 5 alt.svg Moskwa Metro Line 7 alt.svg Krasnopresnenskaya and Moskwa Metro Line 11А alt.svg Moskwa Metro Line 14 alt.svg Shelepikha. Also between Presnenskaya Embankment and 1905 Goda Street are served by the C43 bus, which takes you to the metro stations Moskwa Metro Line 7.svg 1905 Goda Street, Moskwa Metro Line 4.svg International, Moskwa Metro Line 4.svg Vystavochnaya and Shelepikha.