Luzhnetskaya Embankment

It was named at the beginning of the 20th century by the tract of Luzhniki and the village of Luzhnikovo ^{[1] [2]} located in this area (according to other sources - in 1923 ) ^[3] . Previously, parts of the embankment were called the Vorobyovskaya and Novodevichy embankments ^[1] .

The embankment initially passed approximately to the place where the central berth of the stadium is now located. There was a transport across the Moscow River to the Vorobyovy Gory . At the beginning of the embankment, small industrial enterprises arose, including the colorful factory of F. Bayer (later the Soyuz factory ). In 1926, the embankment, like all Luzhniki, suffered from flooding.

In the early 1950s, Vorobyovskaya (on the left bank) and part of the Novodevichy embankment entered the embankment ^[4] .

In 1956, during the construction of the Central Stadium. The entire Lenin embankment was lined with granite and landscaped. In 1958, a two-tier Luzhnetsk metro bridge with the Vorobyovy Gory metro station was built over the embankment.

In 2005-2007, on the territory of the Soyuz and Geliymash factories , it was planned to build a multifunctional complex of medium floors with an area of ​​350 thousand m² “Third Rome” (entertainment centers, a shopping area, a hotel, office premises, apartments, cafes, restaurants, shops, children's and sports grounds, artificial pond with a fountain, boulevard, square). The share of apartments is 249 thousand m², the share of offices is 43 thousand m². The number of storeys of buildings will gradually decrease in the direction of the river from 12 to 5. The development project was demonstrated at the Expo-Real exhibition in Munich in October 2007 . ^{[5] [6] [7]} . However, this project was not implemented, the territory of the plants are leased for office and storage facilities.

All street houses are even. On the street there are houses 2/4, 6, 8, 10a, 10b. In addition, in most directories, as well as in the addresses of correspondence delivered, house 24 on Luzhniki Street , along which the entire Luzhniki Olympic complex is registered, contrary to Moscow Government Decree No. 356-PP of April 17, 2001 , still refers to Luzhnetskaya embankment ^{[8] [9] [10]} .

• No. 2/4 - the Soyuz plant with its many buildings, a huge number of companies, and there are more and more of them, including due to the construction and reconstruction of numerous buildings. At house 2/4, p. 4 is the Art Deco Museum ^[11] . At the address house 2/4, bldg. 3A is the office of MagnitMS, one of the market leaders in the sale of magnetic materials in Russia ^[12]
• No. 6 is one of the offices of Transcreditbank (it was once the head office, but now it has subsidiaries of the bank) and the medical company Orgmed.
• No. 8 is a large building of the Russian Olympic Committee, together with federations, plus several companies (travel agency and others).
• No. 10a is a small fenced area where, from the end of 2007, the company “Trading House Energoservice” has been located. In addition, there is a construction company "Taganka-bridge".
• No. 10b - several unconnected fenced areas. The main one is the Geliymash plant, which, together with the Soyuz plant, forms one large fenced area, divided by an internal fence. Geliymash is smaller than the Union, but there are firms in different buildings. Other fenced areas are small, located on the other side of Komsomolsky Prospekt , there is a Bartley gas station.

• Metro Station 01   Sparrow Hills - at the intersection with Komsomolsky Prospekt.
• Ground transportation passes only on the section from Luzhniki Street to Khamovnichesky Val Street. Represented by buses No. 64, 216, 255, C12, t79.

• In the plan - the construction of a large parking lot
• History of the Soyuz plant
• Photo of the Soyuz plant
• Photo of the Soyuz plant