Big Sukharev Square

Big Sukharevskaya Square is one of the central squares of Moscow, part of the Garden Ring. The name originated in the XVIII century according to the Sukhara Tower, erected here in the late XVII - early XVIII centuries and demolished in 1934. In the XVII century there was a Strelets settlement, in which there was a regiment of L. P. Sukharev, guarding the gates of the Earth City.