• Writer A.N. Tolstoy lived and worked in this house

    Alexei Nikolaevich Tolstoy was a novelist, poet, playwright, publicist and one of the greatest Russian writers of the 20th century.

  • Outstanding Soviet scientist, Academician V.I. Vernadsky worked in this building

    Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky 1863-1945 Vladimir IvanovichVernadsky was a scientist, thinker and public figure. He was an Academician of the Imperial St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1912), Full State Councillor (1911), creator of scientific schools (mineralogy, geochemistry) and the science of biogeochemistry. He was one of the exponents of Russian cosmism. He was winner of the…

  • Serebryany lane

    Serebryany lane is one of the small Arbat lanes, located in the district of the same name in the centre of Moscow. With a length of about 180 metres, it starts from Arbat Street (continuing Starokonyushenny Lane) and follows towards Novy Arbat, ending at a dead end behind one of the book houses.

  • Church of the Holy Life-giving Trinity at the Pyatnitskoye cemetery

    Church of the Holy Life-giving Trinity at the Pyatnitskoye cemetery The Church of the Holy Trinity at the Pyatnitskoe cemetery is an Orthodox church in the north—east of Moscow. It belongs to the Trinity Deanery of the Moscow City Diocese. At the end of the XVIII century, a plague epidemic began in Moscow, which spread…

  • Outstanding coach of the Dynamo Hockey Club A.I. Chernyshyov lived in this house

    Arkady Chernyshyov was a Soviet ice hockey player and coach, football player, one of the founders of the Soviet ice hockey school, Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR (1948), Honoured Coach of the USSR (1957), Colonel.

  • Memorial plaque in honour of the outstanding athlete and coach player V.M. Bobrov

    Vsevolod Mikhailovich Bobrov was a Soviet footballer, hockey player, football and hockey coach. He was an Olympic champion (1956)

  • Honored Master of Sports, Honored Coach of the Soviet Union A.V. Tarasov lived in this house

    Anatoly Vladimirovich Tarasov was an outstanding Russian ice hockey player and coach, and one of the founders of the Russian school of ice hockey. He was the USSR Champion in 1948-1950. He was the Honoured Master of Sports.

  • Outstanding military and political figure, Honorary Citizen of the city of Moscow, Colonel-General B.P. Utkin lived in this house

    Boris Pavlovich Utkin was a Soviet artilleryman and military politician, Colonel General, honorary citizen of Moscow, participant in the Red Square parade on 7 November, 1941. He was born on 23 February 1923 in the village of Petrovskoye, the Bronnitsky district, the Moscow governorate.

  • Writer S.V. Mikhalkov lived in this house

    Sergey Vladimirovich Mikhalkov was a writer, poet, playwright, fable writer, chairman of the Union of Writers of Russia, author of the text of two anthems of the Soviet Union and the anthem of the Russian Federation, chairman of the Union of Writers of the RSFSR, political figure.

  • Monument to S.V. Mikhalkov

    Sergey Vladimirovich Mikhalkov 1913-2009 Sergey Vladimirovich Mikhalkov was a writer, poet, playwright and journalist, war correspondent, screenwriter, writer of fables, public figure, and the Hero of Socialist Labour. He is recognised as a co-author (together with the poet El-Registan) of the lyrics of the national anthem of the USSR and the author of the lyrics…