Pushkin Square

The territory of Pushkin Square is located in the Earthen City, which occupies part of the center of Moscow. It is located two kilometers from the northwest side of the Kremlin. Its borders touch the outskirts of two boulevards – Strastnoy and Tverskaya. This square was once called Strastnaya Square, after the monastery that stood here. After the revolution, it was the square of the December Revolution, in memory of the Moscow uprising of 1905. And since 1931 it became Pushkin. Now, on the foundations of the monastery's buildings and churches, there is a cinema, fountains, and a public garden with a monument to Pushkin moved to the opposite side of Tverskaya in 1950. Pushkin Square is decorated with many lanterns of completely different configurations.