Kremlin Ring

The Kremlin Ring (Russian: Кремлёвское кольцо; transliteration: Kremlovskoye Koltso), is the ring road that runs around the Moscow Kremlin along a line that largely coincides with the borders of Kitay-gorod.

Term

Since 1992, the name “Kremlin Ring” has been given to the first route of the Five Rings of Moscow cycling race.[1] In the official documents of the Government of Moscow, this term, as a designation of a highway, began to appear no later than the first half of the 2000s.[2] The publicist Aleksander Toroptsev wrote in 2007: "... not a single map of Moscow, not a single textbook on Moscow studies has such a historical and geographical term - the Kremlin Ring, although the ring itself exists, and it has a history, and geography, and cultural values, and architectural masterpieces, and, moreover, there is a certain, if I may say so, urban unity of the Kremlin Ring".[3] The term began to be actively used in the second half of the 2010s, during the implementation of the My Street program.[4] The term also appeared on the official scheme of night bus routes in Moscow.[5]

In the 1997 book "Moscow: An Architectural Guide" instead of the term "Kremlin Ring", the name "Semiring of Central Squares" is used.[6]

References
  1. "В начале мая в столице пройдет традиционная гонка "Пять колец Москвы"". sport.ru (in Russian). 28 April 2004.
  2. "Регламент зимнего содержания магистралей, улиц, проездов и площадей (объектов дорожного хозяйства) г. Москвы".
  3. Aleksander Toroptsev История Московской земли, М., Эксмо, 2007, ISBN 978-5-699-20648-3 — С. 181
  4. "Кольцо моей улицы] // газета «Сорок Один». № 25 (473). 2016 — С. 5" (PDF).
  5. "Схема ночных маршрутов". mosgortrans.ru.
  6. «Москва: Архитектурный путеводитель / И. Л. Бусева-Давыдова, М. В. Нащокина, М. И. Астафьева-Длугач. — М.: Стройиздат, 1997. — С. 48
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