Technical facilities of Moscow

You get used to the good quickly: the presence of water in our apartments is already so familiar that its absence is perceived as force majeure. circumstances.

But not so long ago (no, don't think I'm talking about antiques). A little more than 200 years ago, everything was not so simple and Moscow was not so simple. It's really dry ration. On this bus tour, we are with you. Let’s turn through the pages of the technical history of Moscow, we will see the buildings that were once of advanced engineering, and now protected by the state as cultural heritage site.

And it just so happens that our story will be about water. How to sing in the song a cheerful water carrier (there was such a profession): The waters are neither here nor there. Of course, the life of a big city is directly connected. with water. Even the name of the capital learned from the Moscow River, which was for our ancestors. And the nurse and the policewoman and the road.

But over time, the city grew, carrying water from the river to the remote. The districts have become more complicated, the first Moscow water pipelines appear - and of course these are the first to be built. Technical innovations are primarily implemented in the royal palaces. It's the 17th century. The 19th century gave the city a real water supply, as much as 330 thousand buckets a day.

In In 1804, the Mytishchinsky water pipeline was launched, beautiful construction began. Fountains in the center of Moscow in Italian taste, adapt to the White Tower cities as water supply.

So here we are. see during the tour: grottoes and viaducts, the most interesting hydraulic engineering construction of Moscow - lock and dam on Yauza, water tower, aqueduct (with sunset) on the Rostokinsky aqueduct, drainage fountains .Duration of the excursion is 4 hours.

And also from our attention will not escape the other sights that we will meet on the on the way.

Bus tour, at least 10 people - maximum 25. Cost of 900 rubles per person