Pushkinskaya Square

It is situated at the intersection of the Bouled Ring and Tverskaya Street, 2 kilometers northwest of the Kremlin. It isn't just a single of the busiest city squares in Moscow, yet additionally one of the busiest on the planet.

The previous Strastnaya Square name starts from the Passion Monastery, which was destroyed in the 1930s. In 1950, Joseph Stalin had the statue moved to the opposite side of the Tverskaya Street, where the Monastery of Christ's Passions had once in the past stood.

At the focal point of the square is a renowned statue of Pushkin, subsidized by open membership and revealed by Ivan Turgenev and Fyodor Dostoyevsky in 1880.