Cheryomushki District

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For the operetta and musical film named after this district, see Moscow, Cheryomushki

Cheryomushki (Russian: Черёмушки, аfter черёмуха, Bird Cherry tree) is a district in South-Western Administrative Okrug of Moscow. The district is delimited by Naknimovsky Prospekt (north), Obrucheva Street (south), Sevastopolsky Prospekt (east), Profsoyuznaya Street and Vlasova Street (west). The district is mostly residential, with an industrial area near Kaluzhskaya subway station. It houses Gazprom headquarters.

1 History
2 Public transportation
3 External links
4 See also

[edit] History

In 1956, northern side of the district became a site of massive, cheap housing construction (see khrushchyovka) and a microdistrict was built there. Cheryomushki became a common word for such housing projects. Early khrushchyovka in this area has been torn down in 1990s-2000s and replaced with highrise, also of standardized prefabricated concrete.

In early 1980s, the government built a number of better quality, brickwork apartment buildings that acquired a reputation of elite housing (by Moscow standards), ironically called Tsarskoye Selo (Царское село, Royal village). In 1990s, it served as a nucleus of massive new housing construction between Garibaldi Street and Gazprom tower.

Head of local government, Sergei Burkotov, was shot dead in February 2007, in what appears to have been an assassination. [1]

[edit] Public transportation

Western side of the district is accessible by Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line of Moscow Metro (stations Profsoyuznaya to Kaluzhskaya). Eastern side is also accessible through Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line (Sevastopolskaya, Nakhimovskiy Prospekt).