Rausch

Raushskaya embankment is located in Zamoskvorechye between Balchug Street and the Big Ustinsky Bridge. At the beginning of the XIX century, the embankment was called simply Naberezhnaya Street, then until 1877 - Zaiaitskaya Embankment, according to the Church of Nikola Zaiaitsky, which stood on it since the XVI century.

The fact that in 1870 the name of the embankment was changed due to the construction of new bridges on the Moscow River, including the Ustina Bridge. On the map of Moscow called Raushskaya embankment appeared after 1874. The word is derived from "trees" - small ditches through which water departed during floods from the crowded old bed of the Moscow River. The snails were dug up by sovereign gardeners in late 1495, when Ivan III settled them here to serve his gardens. In this way, gardeners created a drainage system that drains water from their yards.

When in 1835 dams were built on the Moscow River and the Water Canal and navigation was opened, the need for the Roushsky Canal, consisting of ancient trunks, disappeared, and it was decided to fall asleep. Gradually, the Raush embankment was landscaped, and in 1836 the wooden fortifications of the shores were replaced by stone ones.

After in 1883, at the end of the Raushskaya embankment downstream, the Big Ustya Bridge was built, life on it was revived. Even more crowded embankment was made by the “pushing market”, which in 1899 was moved here from Novaya Square.

On Raushskaya embankment there are a number of interesting objects, including a complex of buildings of the Moscow power plant.

a Raushskaya embankment under number 2 is the famous Moscow hotel Balchug Kempinski. This is an old building that has existed since 1898. Then there was a restaurant brewery. Over time, the house has repeatedly rebuilt and rebuilt, changed owners. After reconstruction in 1992, Balchug became the first five-star hotel in Moscow.