Zamoskvoretchie
Le Moscou marchand au-delà du fleuve
Maisons basses, clochers et rues aux noms d’anciens faubourgs, face au Kremlin.
Photo: Andrey Korzun · CC BY-SA 4.0
Le quartier
The name says it all — the land “beyond the Moskva River”. The road south to the Horde ran through it and gave the Ordynka streets their name; blacksmiths, interpreters and Tatar merchants settled nearby, hence Kuznetskaya, Tolmachyovsky and Tatarskaya streets.
In the 18th and 19th centuries Zamoskvorechye became a merchant district. The playwright Alexander Ostrovsky was born here and, for his plays about local manners, was called “the Columbus of Zamoskvorechye”.
In 1783–1786 the Vodootvodny Canal was dug to protect the lowland from floods. It created Bolotny Island, which today separates Zamoskvorechye from the Kremlin embankment.
- District administratif
- Central okroug administratif
- Statut
- District
- Population
- 56 230 (au 2025)
- Superficie
- 4,3 km²
- Stations dans le district
- 7
Population d’après Wikidata à la date indiquée ; superficie calculée d’après la limite OpenStreetMap ; stations selon leur position dans la limite.
À voir
Pyatnitskaya Street
The district’s main shopping street, lined with merchant houses and churches.
Church of St Clement
A monumental 18th-century church in Elizabethan Baroque in Klimentovsky Lane.
Ostrovsky House Museum
The wooden house on Malaya Ordynka where the playwright was born.
Bakhrushin Theatre Museum
A neo-Gothic mansion holding the country’s largest theatre collection.
Paveletsky Station
The terminus for the southern routes and the Aeroexpress to Domodedovo Airport.
Où se promener
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Vodootvodny Canal
Sadovnicheskaya and Ovchinnikovskaya embankments with footbridges and old factory buildings.
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The Ordynka lanes
From Novokuznetskaya to Pyatnitskaya via Klimentovsky and Staromonetny lanes.
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Shlyuzovaya Embankment
A quiet stretch of the canal between old and new blocks.
Architecture
A district for unhurried walks: bell towers rise at the end of the lanes, and courtyards and gardens hide behind mansion gates.Church of St Clement
One of Moscow’s largest Baroque churches, with lavish window surrounds.
Merchant mansions
One- and two-storey houses with mezzanines along the Ordynkas and Pyatnitskaya.
Bakhrushin Mansion
Neo-Gothic with lancet windows — an unusual image for Moscow.
Transports
Novokuznetskaya and Tretyakovskaya form one interchange of three lines. Paveletsky Station links the district with the southern routes and Domodedovo Airport.
Sur le plan des transportsStations dans le district
Trains de banlieue
Le saviez-vous
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Bolshaya Ordynka Street is named after the road that led to the Golden Horde.
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The Vodootvodny Canal was dug in 1783–1786 to protect against spring floods.
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Alexander Ostrovsky was called “the Columbus of Zamoskvorechye”.
Galerie photo
Zamoskvorechye, Moscow: photograph from Wikimedia Commons
Sur la carte
Limites : © contributeurs OpenStreetMap, ODbL. Limite d’après OpenStreetMap, novembre 2026.