Moscow Prospect - Avenue in Kaliningrad , one of the main transport arteries of the city. Moscow Avenue begins at the Kaliningrad Law Institute (a former police school) and goes further east. Behind the intersection with the ring road, Moskovsky Prospect crosses onto the A229 highway Kaliningrad - Chernyakhovsk - the Lithuanian border (further to Vilnius and Minsk ).
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 View of Moscow Avenue from the flyover . This section roughly corresponds to the pre-war Altstadt-Lang-strasse street. | |
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| A country | Russia |
| City | Kaliningrad |
| Area | Leningradsky |
| Historical district | Altstadt |
| Length | 8.17 km |
| Former names | combined Oberlaak-strasse, Unterlaak-strasse, Altstadt-Lang-strasse and several others |
As part of the reconstruction plan for the center of Kaliningrad, it is planned to transfer the Moscow Avenue section to the tunnel.
History
In German time there was no single street coinciding with the current Moscow Avenue. Moscow Avenue corresponded to the sequence of the following streets (in the west-east direction): Oberlaak-strasse, Unterlaak-strasse (approximately to the Flyover Bridge), Altstadt-Lang-strasse (section from the Flyover Bridge to Oktyabrskaya St.), Luther-Kirchen-strasse, Sackheim-strasse (to the Zacchaim Gate), Tapiauer-strasse (from the Zackheim Gate further to the city border).
The 1910 map shows a tram line running along the highway of the current Moskovsky Prospect on the section from Unterlaak to the Zacheim Gate . On the map of 1940 it is indicated that tram routes No. 9 and 10 went along this line (in the modern tram network they do not correspond). Further, from the Zacchaim Gate to the city border, there was a bus route “E”.
Located on Prospect
West east
- Kaliningrad Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation - Moskovsky Prospect, Building 8
- Baltic business center
- Memorial sign to Baltic sailors
- Kaliningrad State Art Gallery
- Zacheim Gate
Transport
Almost the entire length of the avenue, a trolleybus line runs along routes No. 2, 7; bus number 2. On the short section of the avenue between the intersection with Oktyabrskaya street and the second flyover bridge there is a tram line served by routes No. 5.
A single-track service tram line without passenger traffic ran from Oktyabrskaya Street to the beginning of the avenue (and further to the car repair workshops). In November 2008, it ceased to exist in connection with the liquidation of car repair shops.
Sources
- Maps of the city for 1910, 1935 (public transport scheme) and 1940, taken from the Königsberg 1255-1945 Multimedia Guide. (c) I. Zabolotnov, 2004