Kutuzov Avenue. Legends of Soviet Moscow

Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, Maya Plisetskaya, Rodion Shchedrin, Dmitry Shostakovich, Evgeny Yevtushenko, Isaac Dunaevsky - all these famous people who are customary to attribute to the elite of Soviet society, lived on Kutuzovsky Prospect of Moscow. But once this place - Dorogomilovo - was called only as died, the city mob lived here and plants smoked pipes. Today in Kutuzovsky there is not a single Khrushchev, and everything is completely Stalinist houses, including And the height of the hotel "Ukraine", and among the attractions - the triumphal arch, Kutuzovskaya hut, Borodino panorama, Poklonnaya Mountain. The new book of Alexander Vaskina from the series "Legends of Soviet Moscow" will tell us how Kutuzovsky Prospekt was created, about his famous houses and residents