Modern Moscow - a walk through the night Arbat.
New Arbat is a street located in the eponymous district in the Central administrative district of capital of Russia. It stretches from the area of the Arbat gate (from there begins the numbering of buildings) to the area of Free Russia.
Ul. New Arbat was conceived by designers before the great Patriotic war. Thus, the General plan of reconstruction of the capital, appeared in 1935, provided for the construction of new urban highways from Arbatskaya square to the Dorogomilovsky Outpost, connecting Moscow city centre with the residential buildings in the Western part. The specified trunk is in its very early was to parallel the existing Arbat street, that's why the working name became the New Arbat. In addition, this area is called the Avenue of the Constitution. Unfortunately, war was not allowed to implement these plans. Went back to them only in the sixties.
In 1963, merged into a single line of site from the Garden ring to the Arbat square, part of Kutuzovsky Avenue and Kalinina street. The specified area became known as Prospekt Kalinina, named in honor of Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin. Muscovites used the informal name for the area between the Garden ring and Arbat area Arbat.