Kitay-gorod (Moscow Metro)
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Kitay-gorod is a Moscow Metro station complex in the Tverskoy District, Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow, Russia. It is on the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya and Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya lines. Kitay-goro
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Kitay-gorod
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Kitay-gorod, also referred to as the Great Possad in the 16th and 17th centuries, is a cultural and historical area within the central part of Moscow in Russia, defined by the remnants of now almost e
Kitay-gorod (Moscow Metro)
…historic name of Ploshchad Varvarskiye Vorota (Varvara Gate Square) to the southern part of Ploshchad Nogina, the station was renamed for the historic Kitay-gorod area, which was almost entirely destroyed by the Soviet regime in the 1930s. Originally the station was to open along the intersection of the two lines…
Iverskiye Gates leading to Red Square are the only extant gates of the Kitay-gorod wall; they were demolished in 1931 by the Soviet Union and rebuilt in the 1990s.
Surviving part of the wall in Zaryadye
St. Nicholas Church on the Ilyinka (1680–1689), with its gold-starred blue domes, once dominated Kitay-gorod's skyline. It was demolished in 1933 by the Soviet Union.
The church of the Trinity in Nikitniki, a masterpiece of 17th-century Russian architecture. It was destroyed in 1936, but rebuilt in the 1990s.