New Arbat Street
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New Arbat Street (Russian: у́лица Но́вый Арба́т) is a major avenue in Moscow's Arbat District. The street should not be confused with Arbat Street, an older pedestrian street, parallel to New Arbat Street.
New Arbat Street was constructed in the 1960s, and was known as Kalinin Avenue (Russian: Проспект Калиниа). The street is lined with Soviet-era skyscrapers made of steel, concrete and glass. These skyscrapers are still standing, and are a major tourist attraction.
8 New Arbat Street houses Moskovskij Dom Knigi ("Moscow Book House"; Russian: Московский Дом Книги), in Soviet times the largest bookstore in the city, and still a major bookseller. Next door to Dom Knigi once stood the record store Melodiya, the largest and most comprehensive in the former Soviet Union, and the flaship store of the state recording company of the same name. Its premises now house an imported jewelry store.
New Arbat Street starts at Arbat Square on the Boulevard Ring, and runs westwards, through the Garden Ring, ending at the Krasnopresnenskaya Embankment, where it becomes Kutuzovsky Prospekt.
