Academician Sakharov Avenue, Moscow

Academician Sakharov Avenue (Russian: Проспект Академика Сахарова, Prospekt Akademika Sakharova) is a street in the center of Moscow, in Krasnoselsky District. In the south, the street is limited by Turgenevskaya Square and the Boulevard Ring. In the north, Academician Sakharov Prospect ends at the T-shape crossing with Kalanchyovskaya Street, close to Komsomolskaya Square. In the middle, it crosses the Garden Ring (Sadovaya-Spasskaya Street).

The avenue was named in 1990 and commemorates

Andrey Sakharov, a physicist and a Nobel Peace Prize winner.^[1]

History

The general plan of the development of Moscow released in 1935 suggested that a wide avenue should be built between

post-modernist buildings. It was decided that after completion, the avenue will get the name of Novokirovsky Avenue (Russian: Новокировский проспект), however, the stretch to Turgenevskaya Square was only completed in the end of the 1980s, and the avenue got the name of Andrey Sakharov. The extension to Lubyanka Square has never been realized.^[2]

References

Media related to Akademika Sakharova Prospekt at Wikimedia Commons

^ Агеева Р.А. и др, Р.А. и др (2007). Имена московских улиц. Топонимический словарь. Moscow: ОГИ. Retrieved 23 December 2011.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ ^a ^b Экскурсия проекта «СовАрх» по бывшему Новокировскому проспекту (in Russian). Дни архитектуры в России / Days of Architecture in Russia. Retrieved 23 December 2011.

55°46′15″N 37°38′40″E / 55.7708°N 37.6444°E / 55.7708; 37.6444

[imena-1] Агеева Р.А. и др, Р.А. и др (2007). Имена московских улиц. Топонимический словарь. Moscow: ОГИ. Retrieved 23 December 2011.^{[permanent dead link]}

[sovarh-2] Экскурсия проекта «СовАрх» по бывшему Новокировскому проспекту (in Russian). Дни архитектуры в России / Days of Architecture in Russia. Retrieved 23 December 2011.

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