Akademika Kapitsa Street

Akademika Kapitsa Street is located in the Konkovo area of the South-Western Administrative District of the capital. The buildings of this street are adjacent to the forest park zone of Bitsevsky Park. Numbering of houses begins from Ostrovityanova Street.

The street was named after academician Kapitsa, who was known for his discoveries in the field of physics during the Soviet Union. The scientist is a Nobel Prize winner.

Residential high-rise buildings on Kapitsa Street were mostly built between 1986 and 1989. In 2001, a sanatorium for children with respiratory diseases was built here.

You can get to the street by bus routes 49 and 754, or by metro to Konkovo station. The street is notable for the fact that in 1987 director Boris Tokarev shot scenes here for the feature film “Night Crew”.