bacchusv in his blog talks about the undeservedly underestimated role of Moscow embankments. Today they are transport routes, and only along their sides are narrow sidewalks. The author gives examples of cities such as New York, London, Cologne, where embankments were given to people and turned into recreation areas. In Moscow, the potentially most favorable places are excluded from public life. At the same time, within the Garden Ring, motorists actively use the left-bank embankments of the Moscow River (Kremlin, Moskvoretskaya and Kotelnicheskaya), Ovchinnikovskaya and Yauza embankments. So, for example, the Sofiyskaya Embankment located opposite the Kremlin is absolutely devoid of life. It is little used by both motorists and pedestrians. As well as on other embankments, here only a narrow sidewalk without landscaping is allocated for the townspeople. Sofiyskaya Embankment has another paradox - fences hide wastelands formed after the demolition of old buildings, in the place of which a park with a beautiful view could be created.
Another problem of Moscow landscaping is raised by the ru_architect LiveJournal community. The blog talks about the excessive number of fences that separate pedestrian areas from roads and landscaping. The author believes that almost any fences and gratings should either be removed or replaced with natural fences. And to protect the grass from trampling, it is necessary to widen the sidewalks and create a high wide curb, so that people are simply uncomfortable entering the landscaping area. And about the fences behind which high-ranking departments are hiding, the artist Alena Romanova writes in the blog of the radio station "Echo of Moscow". If earlier the fences were openwork lattices, now they are high deaf fences that completely cover the buildings. Such a fence recently appeared next to the Shuiskys' chambers on Kitay-Gorod, as well as next to the Sumarokov estate on Zabelin Street. A kilometer-long fence with checkpoints and around the presidential administration along Kitaygorodsky passage is symbolic.
The blog "My Moscow" tells about the park inaccessible to visitors, which descends from Vorontsov Pole almost to the Yauza embankment. The Embassy of India is located on its territory, the premises of which are located in the monuments of Russian architecture of the 19th century. Another blog post encourages Muscovites to leave their suggestions for cycling routes in the velodorojki-msk community. There you can also discuss the options already available. Thus, the first route is proposed to be laid along the embankment between the Kievskaya and Park Kultury metro stations. The second will be organized through the Bitsevsky forest park between the Chertanovo, Yuzhnaya and Konkovo stations. The third route will run from the Bratislavskaya station to the Kapotnya district.
The blog "Walks in Moscow", continuing a series of publications about Moscow districts, talks about Moscow villages that miraculously survived inside the Moscow Ring Road. We are talking about the villages of Terekhovo and Troitse-Lykovo, as well as the courtyards of the former Straw lodge near the Strogino area. Ilya Voznesensky, an architect and a member of the Architects Icing group, writes about the Moscow region near the Dynamo metro station.
The community of ZhZhshnikov of St. Petersburg (spb_ru) is discussing the possibility of creating a park instead of the residential complex "Naberezhnaya Evropy". Bloggers believe that St. Petersburg, albeit with some delay, "has reached a fashionable trend in the capital - to create social infrastructure facilities instead of investment pits that have set the teeth on edge." However, the Governor of St. Petersburg Georgy Poltavchenko recently announced that the project "Embankment of Europe" will be implemented.
You can learn about the history of the Art Nouveau house in Litvinov, as well as about its inhabitants, in the blog "Podmoskovny regional historian". kraeham tells about the town house and dacha of the beginning of the 20th century, the merchant L. N. Yasenkov in Samara. And lev_shlosberg reports that this Sunday in Pskov, an architectural monument of regional significance - a residential building of the second half of the 19th century - burned down.
