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Garden Ring, the Glossary

The Garden Ring, also known as the "B" Ring (Садо́вое кольцо́, кольцо́ "Б"; transliteration: Sadovoye Koltso), is a circular ring road avenue around central Moscow, its course corresponding to what used to be the city ramparts surrounding Zemlyanoy Gorod in the 17th century.^[1]

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Ring roads in Moscow
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Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts.

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Avenue (landscape)

In landscaping, an avenue (from the French), alameda (from the Portuguese and Spanish), or allée (from the French), is a straight path or road with a line of trees or large shrubs running along each side, which is used, as its Latin source venire ("to come") indicates, to emphasize the "coming to," or arrival at a landscape or architectural feature.

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Ğazı II Giray

Ğazı II Giray (1554 – November 1607) was a khan of the Crimean Khanate.

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Bolshoy Krasnokholmsky Bridge

Bolshoy Krasnokholmsky Bridge (Большо́й Краснохо́лмский мост) is a steel arch bridge that spans Moskva River in downtown Moscow, Russia, carrying Garden Ring between Tagansky District and Zamoskvorechye Districts.

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Boris Godunov

Boris Feodorovich Godunov (Boris Fyodorovich Godunov) was the de facto regent of Russia from 1585 to 1598 and then tsar from 1598 to 1605 following the death of Feodor I, the last of the Rurik dynasty.

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Boulevard

A boulevard is a type of broad avenue planted with rows of trees, or in parts of North America, any urban highway or wide road in a commercial district.

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Boulevard Ring

The Boulevard Ring (Бульва́рное кольцо́; transliteration: Bulvarnoye Koltso) is Moscow's second innermost ring road (the first is formed by the Central Squares of Moscow running along the former walls of Kitai-gorod). Garden Ring and Boulevard Ring are ring roads in Moscow.

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Circumference

In geometry, the circumference (from Latin circumferens, meaning "carrying around") is the perimeter of a circle or ellipse.

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Crimean Tatars

Crimean Tatars or Crimeans are a Turkic ethnic group and nation native to Crimea.

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Defensive wall

A defensive wall is a fortification usually used to protect a city, town or other settlement from potential aggressors.

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Feodor I of Russia

Fyodor I Ivanovich (Фёдор I Иванович) or Feodor I Ioannovich (label; 31 May 1557 – 17 January 1598), nicknamed the Blessed (label), was Tsar of all Russia from 1584 until his death in 1598.

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Fire of Moscow (1812)

During the French occupation of Moscow, a fire persisted from 14 to 18 September 1812 and all but destroyed the city.

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Frontage road

A frontage road (also known as an access road, outer road, service road, feeder road, or parallel road) is a local road running parallel to a higher-speed, limited-access road.

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Gürtel, Vienna

The Gürtel is a substantial beltway of Vienna.

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Government of Moscow

The Government of Moscow (Правительство Москвы) is the highest executive body of state authority of Moscow.

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Horsecar

A horsecar, horse-drawn tram, horse-drawn streetcar (U.S.), or horse-drawn railway (historical), is an animal-powered (usually horse) tram or streetcar.

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Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953.

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Kamer-Kollezhsky rampart

Kamer-Kollezhsky rampart (Russian: Камер-Коллежский вал, Kamer-Kollezhsky val, also translated as Kamer-Collegium barriers or Chamber-Collegium wall) was a rampart which was built by Kamer Collegium (Collegium of State Income of the Russian Empire) and became the last of the Moscow city walls.

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Krymsky Bridge

The Krymsky Bridge in 2017. The New Tretyakov Gallery of 20th-Century Art is visible behind the bridge on the right Krymsky Bridge (Крымский мост) is a steel suspension bridge in Moscow.

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Krymsky Val

Krymsky Val (Кры́мский Вал) is a street in the Yakimanka District of Moscow, near Gorky Park.

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Kudrinskaya Square Building

The Kudrinskaya Square Building is a building in Moscow, one of Seven Sisters Of Moscow Stalinist skyscrapers, designed by Mikhail Posokhin (Russian: Михаил Посохин) and Ashot Mndoyants (Russian: Ашот Мндоянц).

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London Inner Ring Road

The London Inner Ring Road, or Ring Road as signposted, is a route with an average diameter of formed from a number of major roads that encircle Central London.

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Maly Krasnokholmsky Bridge

Maly Krasnokholmsky Bridge (Малый Краснохолмский мост) is a bridge over the Vodootvodny Canal in Zamoskvorechye District in Moscow, Russia.

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Michael of Russia

Michael I (Mikhail Fyodorovich Romanov) was Tsar of all Russia from 1613 until his death in 1645.

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Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia)

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (MFA Russia; Министерство иностранныхдел Российской Федерации, МИД РФ) is the central government institution charged with leading the foreign policy and foreign relations of Russia.

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Moscow

Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia.

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Moscow Kursky railway station

Kursky railway terminal (Ку́рский вокза́л, Kursky vokzal), also known as Moscow Kurskaya railway station (Москва́-Ку́рская, Moskva-Kurskaya), is one of the ten railway terminals in Moscow.

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Moscow Metro

The Moscow Metro is a metro system serving the Russian capital of Moscow as well as the neighbouring cities of Krasnogorsk, Reutov, Lyubertsy and Kotelniki in Moscow Oblast. Opened in 1935 with one line and 13 stations, it was the first underground railway system in the Soviet Union., the Moscow Metro, excluding the Moscow Central Circle, the Moscow Central Diameters and the Moscow Monorail, had 294 stations and of route length, excluding light rail Monorail, making it the 10th-longest in the world and the longest outside East Asia.

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Moscow Ring Road

The Moscow Automobile Ring Road (Moskovskaya koltsevaya avtomobilnaya doroga), or MKAD (МКАД), is a ring road running predominantly on the city border of Moscow with a length of 108.9 km (67.7 mi) and 35 exits (including ten interchanges). Garden Ring and Moscow Ring Road are ring roads in Moscow and Transport in Moscow.

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Moskva (river)

The Moskva (река Москва, Москва-река, Moskva-reka) is a river that flows through western Russia.

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Novinskiy Boulevard

Novinskiy Boulevard is a street in Presnenskiy and Arbat districts of Moscow.

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Peter the Great

Peter I (–), was Tsar of all Russia from 1682, and the first Emperor of all Russia, known as Peter the Great, from 1721 until his death in 1725.

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Praetorianism

Praetorianism means excessive or abusive political influence of the armed forces in a country.

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Red Gate

The Red Gate (Russian: Красные ворота, Krasnye vorota) was a set of triumphal arches built in an exuberantly baroque design in Moscow.

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Regent

In a monarchy, a regent is a person appointed to govern a state for the time being because the actual monarch is a minor, absent, incapacitated or unable to discharge their powers and duties, or the throne is vacant and a new monarch has not yet been determined.

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Ring road

A ring road (also known as circular road, beltline, beltway, circumferential (high)way, loop or orbital) is a road or a series of connected roads encircling a town, city or country.

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Russian units of measurement

Traditional Russian units of measurement were standardized and used in Imperial Russia and after the Russian Revolution, but were abandoned after 21 July 1925, when the Soviet Union adopted the metric system, per the order of the Council of People's Commissars.

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Sloboda

A sloboda (слобода,; слобода) was a type of settlement in the history of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine.

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Stalinist architecture

Stalinist architecture, mostly known in the former Eastern Bloc as Stalinist style or socialist classicism, is the architecture of the Soviet Union under the leadership of Joseph Stalin, between 1933 (when Boris Iofan's draft for the Palace of the Soviets was officially approved) and 1955 (when Nikita Khrushchev condemned "excesses" of the past decades and disbanded the Soviet Academy of Architecture).

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Streltsy

The streltsy (стрельцы,,; label) were the units of Russian firearm infantry from the 16th century to the early 18th century and also a social stratum, from which personnel for streltsy troops were traditionally recruited.

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Streltsy uprising

The Streltsy uprising of 1698 (Стрелецкий бунт 1698 года) was an uprising of the Moscow Streltsy regiments.

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Taganskaya Square

Taganskaya Square (Таганская площадь) is a city square at the south-eastern corner of the Garden Ring in central Moscow, formed in 1963 by merging two historic squares, Upper Taganka and Lower Taganka.

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Tagansky District

Tagansky District (Тага́нский райо́н) is a district of Central Administrative Okrug of the federal city of Moscow, Russia, located between the Moskva and Yauza Rivers near the mouth of the latter.

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Tank locomotive

A tank locomotive is a steam locomotive which carries its water in one or more on-board water tanks, instead of a more traditional tender.

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Third Ring Road (Moscow)

The Third Ring Road, or The Third Ring (Тре́тье тра́нспортное кольцо́, or Тре́тье кольцо́, or ТТК; transliteration: Tretye Transportnoye Koltso, or Tretye Koltso, or TTK), is a beltway around central Moscow, Russia, located between the Garden Ring in the city centre and the Moscow Ring Road (MKAD). Garden Ring and Third Ring Road (Moscow) are ring roads in Moscow.

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Time of Troubles

The Time of Troubles (Smutnoye vremya), also known as Smuta (troubles), was a period of political crisis in Russia which began in 1598 with the death of Feodor I, the last of the House of Rurik, and ended in 1613 with the accession of Michael I of the House of Romanov.

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Tram

A tram (also known as a streetcar or trolley in the United States and Canada) is a type of urban rail transit consisting of either individual railcars or self-propelled multiple unit trains that run on tramway tracks on urban public streets; some include segments on segregated right-of-way.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_Ring

Also known as Sadovoe Koltso, Sadovoye Koltso.

, Vienna Ring Road, Vodootvodny Canal, World War II, Yakimanka District, Zamoskvorechye District, Zemlyanoy Gorod.

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Ring roads in Moscow

Transport in Moscow

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