≈ 25 min awayKremlin- Distance
- 1.7 km
Moscow · Russia
New Arbat Avenue: what's nearby, how to get there and when to go · 2026
Living beside this thoroughfare means accepting continuous traffic noise in exchange for direct access across the central ring.
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Kremlin
Red Square
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
State Historical Museum
Bolshoi Theatre
Moscow Zoo
Tsar Bell
Tsar Cannon
Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
Dormition Cathedral
Moscow Conservatory
Russian State Library
Kremlin Armoury
Ivan the Great Bell Tower
Kazan Cathedral
GUM
Alexander Garden
Moscow Art Theatre
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
Arbatskaya
Biblioteka Imeni Lenina
Cathedral of the Annunciation
Cathedral of the Archangel
Grand Kremlin Palace
Kremlin Wall Necropolis
Mayakovskaya
Moscow Kiyevsky railway station
Palace of the Soviets
Park Kultury
Ploshchad Revolyutsii
Radisson Collection Hotel Moscow
Russian Institute of Theatre Arts
Spasskaya Tower
White House- Lenin's Mausoleum
About the place
New Arbat Avenue cuts a modern arterial corridor straight through historic urban fabric.
New Arbat Avenue functions as a wide transit artery running west from Arbatskaya Square on the Boulevard Ring toward Novoarbatsky Bridge. Planners carved the broad alignment directly through the pre-existing grid of the historic Arbat District, introducing high-rise towers that permanently shifted the architectural scale.
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Residents encounter heavy vehicle volume across multiple lanes alongside commercial towers. The urban layout prioritises thoroughfare connectivity, creating an open transit passage between central boulevards and river crossings that contrasts sharply with the enclosed lanes of the surrounding residential quarters.
Associations
- Arbatskaya Square
- Novoarbatsky Bridge
- Traffic volume
Facts
- New Arbat Avenue extends west from Arbatskaya Square to Novoarbatsky Bridge across the river.
- The avenue and its flanking high-rise towers were built across the former historic street layout.
- A scene in the sci-fi film Kin-Dza-Dza! was filmed along the avenue.
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