Square Pure ponds

  This square has received the name thanks to a pond which is in its territory. It is necessary to notice that chistoprudnyj the parkway is most known of all squares of the Parkway ring. In the summer zds fine avenues blossom, and on the pond it is possible to walk by boats. In a winter season the skating rink on which it is possible to go skating with the great pleasure here is filled in. The big reconstruction of parkway now has begun, but here all the same remains a lot of walking and having a rest. In square there is a fine fountain with sculptures. Pure ponds last from a monument to Griboedov to the end of parkway Chistoprudnogo. The chistoprudnyj parkway has been arranged in first half of 19 centuries. Till this time in the given territory Zhivoginnyj a court yard on which sold cattle settled down. Many butchers who did not wish to pay for cattle slaughter in a special place, killed cattle, and garbage put in the nearest reservoirs which at that time pure it was possible to name only for fun. For those reservoirs the name - "Fetid ponds" more would approach. In the beginning vosemnadtsatogo centuries on command of noblem A. D.Menshikov, ponds have been cleared, then by the right of a steel to be called as Pure ponds. The birth most chistoprudnogo parkway is necessary approximately for the twentieth years of the nineteenth century. To reach parkway it is possible having reached to metro station "Pure ponds" or "Tourist's Genevsky".
 

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