Tagansky District () is a

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of the

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, located between the

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and

Yauza River The Yauza () is a river in Moscow and Mytishchi, Russia, a left and largest tributary of the Moskva (river), Moskva in the Russian capital. It originates in the Losiny Ostrov National Park northeast of Moscow, flows through Mytishchi, enters Mosc ...

s near the mouth of the latter. Population:

Name

The district takes its name from the former ''Taganskaya'' ''

sloboda A sloboda was a type of settlement in the history of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. The name is derived from the early Slavic word for 'freedom' and may be loosely translated as 'free settlement'.

'', where the copper-smiths lived in the 16th century. ''Tagan'' is the old Russian word for their product, a

trivet A trivet is an object placed between a serving dish, bowl, pot, or pan and a dining table, usually to protect the table from heat damage. The word ''trivet'' refers to three feet, but the term is sometimes used in British English to refer to t ...

to set a pot on (known in English as "brand-iron").

History

14th - 19th centuries

The city of

expanded beyond the boundaries of the Kremlin and Zaryadye at the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries. Around the same time, settlement began on the left bank of the Yauza River, primarily by artisans who were relocated from the city due to the fire hazards associated with their trades, such as potters and blacksmiths.
In the 16th century, the rapidly growing blacksmiths' settlement pushed the potters' community to the eastern part of what is now Goncharnaya Street, which emerged as a branch off the main Kolomenskaya Road. In the mid-17th century, the population density in Zayauzye became one of the highest in Moscow. At that time, Zayauzye was bordered to the east by the Earthen Rampart, with the only gate located at Taganskaya Square. A market formed there, known as Tagansky Market, where most of the stalls in the 17th century were run by the

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. In the fire of 1812, Zayauzye burned down almost completely. In the Yauza part of the district, 36 houses remained, in Rogozhskaya - 63, in Taganskaya - only 13. The fire of 1886 almost completely destroyed subdistrict. Reconstruction of the area took place slowly, without any plan. MatweiPelageya001

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The first residential building built in Moscow after the revolution appeared on Taganka. On October 14, 1923, the Dynamo plant building, No. 9 Sorokosvyatskaya Street, renamed Dynamovskaya in 1924, was ceremoniously occupied. The most visible contribution of the pre-war decade to the architectural appearance of Taganka was the development of the embankments and the new Bolshoy Ustinsky and Bolshoy Krasnokholmsky Bridges.

The modern district of Taganka

The modern center of the Taganka district is the

Taganskaya Square Taganskaya Square () is a city square at the south-eastern corner of the Garden Ring in central Moscow, formed in 1963 by merging two historic squares, Upper Taganka and Lower Taganka. In 1813 the district of Taganka was reconstructed by Jos ...

, where the

Taganka Theatre Taganka Theatre (, Театр драмы и комедии на Таганке, "Таганка") is a theater located in the Art Nouveau building on Taganka Square in Moscow. History The Drama and Comedy Theater was founded in 1946. The head di ...

is located. The skyline is dominated by the

Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building is one of seven Stalinist skyscrapers laid down in September 1947 and completed in 1952, designed by Dmitry Chechulin (then Chief Architect of Moscow) and Andrei Rostkovsky. The main tower has 32 levels (incl ...

, once the tallest skyscraper in the Soviet Union. The area contains a fine set of pre-Petrine parish churches, including the Athonite metochion and the Bolvanovka Church of St. Nicholas. Apart from Taganka proper, the modern district includes other historic neighbourhoods such as Kulishki in the eastern

Bely Gorod Bely Gorod (, , ) is the central core area of Moscow, Russia beyond the Kremlin and Kitay-gorod. The name comes from the color of its defensive wall, which was erected in 1585–1593 at the behest of tsar Feodor I and Boris Godunov by architect ...

Khitrovka Khitrovskaya Square (), also known historically as Khitrov marketplace () or simply Khitrovka (), is a square in the centre of Moscow that existed from the 1820 to 1930s and was restored in the 2010s. In the second half of the 19th century Khitro ...

, Solyanka,

Krutitsy Krutitsy Metochion (), full name: Krutitsy Patriarchal Metochion () is an operating ecclesiastical estate of Russian Orthodox Church, located in Tagansky District of Moscow, Russia, 3 kilometers south-east from the Kremlin. The name ''Krutitsy' ...

, and (the spiritual centre of

Old Believers Old Believers or Old Ritualists ( Russian: староверы, ''starovery'' or старообрядцы, ''staroobryadtsy'') is the common term for several religious groups, which maintain the old liturgical and ritual practices of the Russian ...

). Major sights include the 18th-century Foundling Home and at least three walled monasteries — the

Andronikov The House of Andronikashvili ( ka, ანდრონიკაშვილები), sometimes known as Endronikashvili (ენდრონიკაშვილები), was a countly family in Georgia (country), Georgia who claimed descent from ...

, the

Pokrovsky Pokrovsky, also spelled Pokrovski and Pokrovskii (), or Pokrovskaya (feminine; Покровская) is a Russian clerical surname derived from ''Pokrov'',Boris Unbegaun, ''Русские фамилии'p. 172/ref> either from the feast of (Interc ...

, and the Novospassky.

References

External links

Taganka - Prison, Area, Today
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