Moscow Avenue. Historical Essays

This book is the first experience of a fairly complete presentation of the history of the Moscow Avenue, the most extended city highway, originating in the city center and crossing it in the southern direction of its almost ten-taller boom, with eight squares, six metro stations, five largest higher education institutions (all this - City Records!), Protected as monuments of history and culture preserved to our days, the historical buildings of classical architecture, modern architecture, buildings of the Leningrad constructivism and the "Stalinist" style of 1930-1950s, the monuments of the military glory of Russia XIX and the twentieth centuries, green arrays of Moscow Victory Park, Novodevichy Cemetery and Park "Olympia", dozen once the largest research institutes and design bureaus and five large industrial enterprises.
For the first time in one book, the reader will find creative biographies of scientists who have achieved world