Valovaya Street (Moscow)

Gross Street arose in 1816-1820 after the demolition of the Earth Wall. The old name that the street bore until 1917 was Zatsepsky Val. The street was built in 1940-1950.

In the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, on the site of the modern Gross Street, there were meadows on which, at the beginning of the seventeenth, the cows of the nun Queen Martha, the mother of Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich, were grazing. The area was crossed by the “old woman” of the Moscow river, which was flooded with water during floods or heavy rains.

At the end of the 16th century, the area was cut across the “old man” by the Earthen wall with a moat. In Peter's times, workers of the Kadashevsky Mint settled in this area, which is reminded of modern Monetchikovskiy alleys. The coin was minted here shortly from 1701 to 1736. The earthen rampart was demolished in 1816-1820; here, as on other driveways of the Zamoskvoretsky arc of the Garden Ring, it was decided not to make front gardens narrowing the pavements. Therefore, the street was not named Sadovaya, but remained simply Gross. In addition, it remained relatively narrow compared to those links in the Garden Ring, where the streets gained their current width due to front gardens. In the 19th century, Valovaya Street either stood out from the Zatsepsky Val or merged into it again, and only by the beginning of the 20th century did both streets finally gain a foothold in their current borders.

In the summer of 1979, due to the demolition of houses on the left side, the street was doubled: from 10 meters to 40, equal in width to the remaining segments of the ring and Valovaya, like the rest of the streets of the Zamoskvoretsky arc, turned into a wide transport highway.

Valovaya Street practically did not preserve traces of distant antiquity, and of the notable buildings it should be noted building No. 28, owned by the 1st Model Printing House, one of the best printing enterprises in the country.

On the even side

• No. 2-4 / 44 - residential building.
• No. 6 - Residential building (1950-1951, architects Igor Nikolaevich Kastel , T. G. Zaikin, engineer Yu. Dykhovichny ) ^[1] . Here in 1953-1985, the commander A.I. Shevchenko lived ^[2] .
• No. 26 - Office building LightHouse (LIGHTHOUSE).
• No. 28/5/71 - The printing house of the famous Russian book publisher I. D. Sytin , one of the largest in Europe , was designed by architect A. E. Erichson and engineer V. G. Shukhov in 1903. Printing houses were erected in the years 1890-1910 according to the project of architect F.F. Voskresensky . The printing house was founded in 1876 by the famous figure of Russian education I. D. Sytin, in its present place it has been located since 1879. In 1905, the printing house became one of the centers of the December armed uprising in Moscow. Its workers printed the issue of Izvestia Moskovskogo Soveta, in which it printed in large letters: "To declare a general political strike in Moscow from Wednesday December 7th at 12 noon and strive to convert it into an armed uprising."

• 115054 : (10, 11/19, 14, 28, 29, 31, 33, 32, 32 (k.4), 4 / 2-44, 6/8)

Bus number B, 632 (in both directions); K (only on the outer part of the Garden Ring ).