Kitay Gorod, Bely Gorod and Zaryadye are the oldest districts of Moscow. On their territory are the Kremlin, Red Square, the oldest houses and monasteries. Today we will go around the ring around these areas, which is informally called the Kremlin Ring. This is the smallest circular route around the Kremlin. However, this is one of the most intense walks in the history of the city, since almost every building in it has historical significance. We will pay attention to some of the buildings when walking, however, we highly recommend to personally visit these streets and soak up the spirit of great Moscow!
00:05 - Okhotny ryad Street
00:50 - State Duma
02:35 - House of the Unions concert hall
03:03 - Teatralny Driveway
03:10 - Bolshoy Theatre and Teatralnaya Square
03:53 - Monument to Karl Marx
04:25 - TSUM and Maly Theatre
06:15 - Tretyakovsky Passage
08:05 - Central Children's Store
08:41 - Federal Security Service (early also known as KGB)
09:10 - Novaya Square
09:20 - Entrance to the metro station Lubyanka
09:40 - Museum Park
11:45 - Church of Ioann Bogoslov
13:30 - Heroes of Plevna
13:55 - Metro station Kitay Gorod
15:00 - Staraya Square
15:16 - Ilyinsky Public Garden
17:30 - Presidental Administration
22:50 - Kitaygorodsky Driveway
24:12 - A memorial board of Peter Stepanovich Neporozhny
24:30 - Kitaygorodskaya wall
26:00 - Concert Hall Zaryadye
27:10 - Moskvoretskaya Embankment
27:55 - Church of the conception of Anna
29:00 - Flying bridge in the park Zaryadye 33:11 - A little piece of Red Square
34:00 - Kremlyovskaya Embankment
35:24 - So-called Second Unnamed Tower
36:20 - So-called First Unnamed Tower
37:12 - Taynitskaya Tower
37:35 - Grand Kremlin Palace
39:15 - Annuctiation Tower
40:00 - Vodovzvodnaya Tower
42:27 - Borovitskaya Square
43:30 - Borovitskaya Tower
44:37 - Monument to Prince Vladimir
45:45 - Mokhovaya Street
45:55 - Metro Station Borovitskaya
46:50 - Russia State Library
48:05 - Monument to Feodor Dostoevsky
50:46 - Science library of the Moscow State University
51:52 - Central Exhibition Hall
Visiting PROKHOROVKA, Russia (7/2018)
Prokhorovka is remembered as the largest ever tank battle. In the collective Russian memory it was the turning point of the Battle of Kursk when the infamous Liebstandarte II SS Panzer Division was stopped in it's tracks. This point of view is immortalised on the battlefield in the form of the iconic Prokhorovka Bell Tower and the recently installed art works in front of the impressive local museum.
The first mention of Prokhorovka in historical documents dates back to the second half of the 17th century. Polish nobleman Kiril G. Ilyinsky and his son Sava left during the Russian-Polish war of 1654-67 in Poland under the Belgorod, where they founded the suburb Elias. In 1860 Elias Sloboda was renamed in honor of the reigning Emperor Alexander II in the village of Alexandrov. In the 1880s west of the village passed a line of the Kursk-Kharkov-Azov railway. At the same time Prokhorovka station was built, named after the railway engineer names VI Prokhorov responsible for its construction.
In the summer of 1943, Prokhorovka was the site of the Battle of Prokhorovka, a major armored confrontation during the Battle of Kursk of World War II. In July 2013, Vice Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin offered to establish by 2015 a museum commemorating the battle. The display of armored vehicles will be permanent and the technologies shown there will bring up recollections of the events of World War II.
The Battle of Prokhorovka was fought on 12 July 1943 near Prokhorovka, 87 kilometres southeast of Kursk in the Soviet Union, during the Second World War. Taking place on the Eastern Front, the engagement was part of the wider Battle of Kursk, and occurred when the 5th Guards Tank Army of the Soviet Red Army attacked the II SS-Panzer Corps of the German Wehrmacht in one of the largest tank battles in military history.