Smolenskaya Square

Smolenskaya Square (Russian: Смоленская площадь) is a square in the center of Moscow. The Garden Ring crosses the square. Arbat street runs towards it and ends near the Foreign Ministry skyscraper, the main building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia. The latter faces Smolenskaya square.

The name is sometimes used as a metonym for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Russian foreign policy in general.

55°44′52″N 37°34′57″E


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.