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Moscow International Business Center "Moscow City". under construction until 2014. area of business activity, which will bring together business, apartment living and leisure.
Kuznetsky Most is one of the most beautiful pedestrian streets in the historical center of Moscow.
The street got its modern - and at the same time historical - name thanks to the Kuznetsky Bridge across the Neglinnaya River. Today, Kuznetsky Most Street attracts citizens with its high-quality landscaping, an abundance of architectural monuments and an unusual relief: due to the significant difference in heights between Petrovka and Rozhdestvenka, the city landscape looks especially picturesque.
Kuznetskaya Sloboda on the high bank of the Neglinnaya River - Neglinnaya Upper - appeared in the 12th century, but its heyday came only at the end of the 15th, when the Cannon Yard was built in the vicinity, and the Moscow prince Ivan III ordered to settle in it blacksmiths and grooms who served new production. At the turn of the 15th-16th centuries, Novgorod and Pskov were annexed to the Moscow principality, and craftsmen of various professions from these cities were moved to the Neglinny Upper.
In 1737, the street burned out during the Trinity fire, but rather quickly new buildings were built on it, in which foreign shops began to be located. Gradually, the street turned into the abode of foreign trade: the French showed particular zeal, opening fashion and haberdashery shops here, thanks to which Kuznetsky Most became the main shopping street in Moscow. During World War II and the fire of 1812, it practically did not suffer from the fire, since the French guard took over the protection of the business of compatriots. After the war, trade flourished again, and many fashionable shops were opened on it (almost all of them were foreign, most of them were French). The abundance of foreign shops made Kuznetsky Most the most fashionable and aristocratic street in Moscow, which it remained until the 1917 Revolution.
During the Soviet era, the street lost part of the historical buildings, many buildings were rebuilt, and the street gradually took on a modern look.
After the reconstruction carried out in 2012, the Kuznetsky Most section from Bolshaya Dmitrovka to Rozhdestvenka became pedestrian.
Today Kuznetsky Most Street is a well-maintained pedestrian zone, where city holidays and festivals are often held.
Despite the losses of the Soviet years, a large number of architectural monuments have been preserved on it: tenement houses, partially preserved city estates and passages. Among them are famous Moscow sights: the building of the Moscow International Trade Bank, Khomyakov's trading house and others.
City view from the cable car to Ma'an Shan (马鞍山, a mountain in the city).
Also check out this picture to see the city development from 2002 to 2015...
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The Chicago city skyline from Grant Park just before sunrise... but what... too many clouds for a sunrise to be seen. How unfair is that???
Yes, we confess.
cara lives high above the city in RL and has been known more than occasionally to wander out onto the balcony in her smalls to check the lights. To say nothing of wielding a large set of binoculars to check if any of the neighbors are living likewise.
We can't blame you for wanting to have these undies. So yummy. They're Monica by Look at Me. As things stand you can only get the, at the Bum Bum event
Singapore
June 2015
I plan to post my travel photographs in about 3 weeks' time, after August 9, which is Singapore's National Day. This year, we celebrate Singapore's 50 years of independence (SG50).
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The first light of dawn crests the Wasatch Front as lights of Salt Lake City glimmer in the distance, as seen from the Great Salt Lake’s Stansbury Island.
shown is one of the public housing estates with Buy or Rent Option built by the Hong Kong Housing Authority(HA). HA is a statutory body established to develop and implement Hong Kong's public housing programme. Their mandate is to help low-income families in need gain access to affordable housing. (www.housingauthority.gov.hk/en/about-us/index.html)
One of the giant lifting machines that make up one of the largest movable flood barriers in the world. Taken just before dawn, one a morning with very little colour or texture in the sky.