The meadows in Moscow within the borders of the expansion of 2011-2012 occupy an area of approximately 900 hectares. The meadows have been preserved mainly in the floodplains of the rivers: in the Stroginskaya and Krylatskaya floodplains of the Moscow River , in Kolomenskoye , in the lower reaches of the Gorodni River , in the floodplains of the Setuni , Serebryanka , Yazvenka rivers , on the Shchukinsky Peninsula , in Serebryany Bor [1] [2] . A number of such places in order to protect meadows are taken under state protection as natural-historical parks, reserves, natural monuments [3] .
There is very little arable land within the Moscow Ring Road - fields for experiments of the Moscow Agricultural Academy and single remaining gardens [3] .
Earlier, there were much more meadows and fields on the territory of present-day Moscow within the Moscow Ring Road. Even in the XX century, within Moscow, and even more so near the city limits, cattle were grazed and hay was harvested. However, today the area of Moscow meadows is gradually decreasing, and their natural characteristics are deteriorating. Back in the 1960s and 1970s, arable lands were often found closer to the Moscow Ring Road, but by the end of the 20th century there was almost nothing left of them [3] .
In Place
A number of current names testify to the old Moscow flood meadows: Luzhnetsk embankment , passage and bridge , Kasyonkin Lug street and others [4] .
Fields in Moscow were originally called undeveloped areas: Vorontsovo Field , Maiden Field , Sokolniki Field , Khodynsky Field , October Field . With the development of these areas in the 19th-20th centuries, the streets laid there received the corresponding names: 1st, 3rd and 5th streets of the Yamsky field, 1st to 10th streets of the October field and others. The streets Upper Fields and Lower Fields were named according to their location near the Lublin irrigation fields [5] .
Notes
- ↑ Ecological realities of Moscow
- ↑ Vegetation // Moscow: Encyclopedia / ch. ed. S. O. Schmidt ; Compiled by: M.I. Andreev, V.M. Karev. - M .: Great Russian Encyclopedia , 1997. - 976 p. - 100 000 copies - ISBN 5-85270-277-3 .
- ↑ 1 2 3 Meadows and fields of Moscow // State Darwin Museum
- ↑ Vegetation // Moscow: Encyclopedia / Chapter. ed. A. L. Narochnitsky. - M.: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1980 .-- 688 p., Ill. - 200,000 copies.
- ↑ Fields // Moscow: Encyclopedia / Head. ed. A. L. Narochnitsky. - M.: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1980 .-- 688 p., Ill. - 200,000 copies.