Novokuznetskaya street

Radial street in the Zamoskvorechye district of Moscow.

The street was named after the black Kuznetsk settlement, located near the Church of St. Nicholas (corner of Novokuznetsk and Vishnyakov lane) in Novokuznetsk (until 1954 - Spasobolvanovsky) alleys.

The temple of St. Nikolai, presumably, was founded in the XV century, the first written mention of him and Kuznetsk settlement dated 1625. In those years, there were two churches of Nikola in Kuznetsy (the second one is the current church of St. Nicholas in Kotelniki on the left bank of the Moscow River). There is a version that it was from the left bank in Zamoskvorechye that the blacksmiths moved. In the records of 1657, the church is listed as wooden. The stone temple was first built in 1681-1683, and completely rebuilt in 1805. The temple was not closed, being the only one operating in Zamoskvorechye in the period after 1922.

The tram line has existed since 1909. The continuation of Novokuznetskaya Street to the north - the tram Garden passage to the Komissariat Bridge - appeared only in 1963. Until then, trams were turned on Friday street and cast iron bridge. The general plan of 1935 assumed to close the Boulevard Ring through the Zamoskvorechye building of the Ministry of Economic Development along the Garden Passage - the beginning of the construction of the failed ring.