Free Russia Square is a square in the center of Moscow in the Presnensky district between Novy Arbat , Smolenskaya and Krasnopresnenskaya embankments and Konyushkovskaya street .
| Free Russia Square | |
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 Night panorama of the Square of Free Russia, on the left - the Moscow City Hall , in the center - the "book-houses" of New Arbat . | |
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| A country | Russia |
| City | Moscow |
| County | TsAO |
| Area | Presnensky |
| Underground | Smolenskaya (Arbat-Pokrovskaya) , Smolenskaya (Filevskaya) , Krasnopresnenskaya Barricade |
| Postcode | 103274 |
Content
- 1 History
- 2 Description
- 3 Monument to Stolypin
- 4 References
- 5 notes
History
The nameless before this square was received on August 22, 1991 after the failure of the putsch of the State Emergency Committee . The proposal for the name put forward by Yeltsin in one of his speeches.
Description
Free Russia Square is located on the arrow of Konyushkovskaya Street and Novy Arbat in front of the Novoarbatsky Bridge opposite the Moscow Government building (the former CMEA building). Krasnopresnenskaya embankment faces it from the north-west, and Smolenskaya from the south. In the north is the White House (Government House of the Russian Federation).
Monument to Stolypin
The order of the Moscow government on the installation of the monument was approved by the Mayor of Moscow S. Sobyanin June 2, 2011 [1] .
In July 2011, Prime Minister V.V. Putin invited members of the government to personally participate in finance in the construction of the monument:
This is everyoneβs duty, I wonβt force them, but I hope that each member of the government will contribute personal money for the construction of this monument.
It is known that one of his patches - more than 170 thousand rubles - was transferred to the monument, in particular, by the then Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin . At the initiative of Putin, an account was also opened to collect donations for the construction of the monument.
On December 27, 2012, in the area of ββFree Russia Square, a monument to Stolypin was erected in connection with the 150th anniversary of his birth [2] . Putin recalled, in particular, that members of the government also participated in fundraising for this monument: " Dmitry Anatolyevich and I also contributed."
Links
- Official site of Presnensky district
- All-Moscow classifier of streets of Moscow OMK UM
- The names of Moscow streets . Toponymic Dictionary / R. A. Ageeva, G. P. Bondaruk, E. M. Pospelov and others; author foreword E.M. Pospelov. - M .: OGI, 2007. - (Moscow Library). - ISBN 5-94282-432-0 .
Notes
- β The Stolypin monument in Moscow will be put up at the White House in 2012 // Interfax. β June 2, 2011
- β In Moscow, a monument was erected to Peter Stolypin . RosBusinessConsulting (December 27, 2012). Date of treatment December 27, 2012. Archived January 5, 2013.