Greater Moscow: Filevskaya floodplain

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:42

Moscow is spread over more than 2.5 thousand kilometers. A huge modern metropolis, with endless streams of cars, always in a hurry, constantly on the move. It seems impossible to find a quiet patriarchal corner in this sleepless city. Surrounded by water on three sides and cut off by factory buildings on the fourth, an enclave lurks in the Filevskaya floodplain.

Historical background

For the first time, the future Filevskoye possession of the Naryshkins is mentioned in chronicles dated 1454. Then in this remote place there was a small monastery of St. Sava. Nearby stood a mill and two villages. One of them - Ipa - formed the future possession.

In 1520, Vasily III granted land to Mstislavsky. Owners practically did not appear in their lands. The area revived a little only during the royal hunt. In summer, the surrounding forests were famous for falconry, in winter they took a bear.

Only the new owner Naryshkin from 1690 began to equip the estate. A rich wooden master's house appeared, standing out for hourstower. A large garden was laid out nearby, several ponds were equipped, a stone temple was built on the Filevskaya floodplain. Peter I granted for those times a very large sum to decorate the interior of the building. The best masters of stone affairs worked on the temple. A cascade of park lawns and ponds descending to the river was arranged in front of the entrance.

Khrunichev Plant

Only by the 19th century, the Filyovskaya floodplain became a suburb of Moscow. Rich possessions were fragmented. The plots have changed owners. The railway approached Fili from Moscow. Residents of the floodplain got the opportunity to go to work in the city. The pre-revolutionary 1916 was the year of the birth of an automobile plant in the area of the Filevskaya floodplain. After the October Revolution, the new Soviet government was actively engaged in the industrialization of the country. By 1927, the automobile plant was reoriented, and the construction of aircraft from the German company Junkers began. Over the next 8 years, Fili joined Moscow and became a large industrial area. Throughout the Patriotic War, the aircraft plant did not stop working. The famous I-4 fighters, a number of models of bombers and reconnaissance aircraft were made.

After the war, it was decided to convert the plant to the development of new equipment. The rocket history of the enterprise began in 1960.

Birth of the Neighborhood

Initially, the field between the Moscow River and the aircraft plant was occupied by an airfield. After the cessation of aircraft production and the start of work on rocket technology, the airfield lost its significance. It was decided toconstruction of a residential microdistrict in its place for new specialists of the plant. Filevskaya floodplain began to be rebuilt as a residential area.

Instead of a runway, a boulevard was laid, which became the center of construction. Passing from east to west, it ends with a small wooden church in the name of Seraphim of Sarov. This, of course, is not a majestic temple built during the time of Peter I, but in any case it brings spiritual life to the area. A stone structure of the Church of All Saints is being erected nearby.

To the north of the boulevard, along the bend of the river, two modern microdistricts were built. Residential complex "River House", which has excellent access to the coastal strip. Due to its isolation, the forest belt along the coast has a pristine natural look.

How Filevsky Boulevard lives

As already mentioned, the microdistrict is surrounded by water from the east, west and north. In the south, Filevsky Boulevard connects with Myasishcheva Street and forms a ring along the industrial zone. Further on are the buildings of the Khrunichev plant. The only road leading to the big city is Novofilevsky Proezd. Public transport that allows you to get to the metro is bus No. 653 (Fili metro station), No. 152 (Krasnopresnenskaya metro station).

Despite their remoteness from the life of a big city, the old-timers of the floodplain were not very happy with the appearance of the modern River House microdistrict. The load on the coastal zone has increased, Novofilevsky passage does not allow a significant increase in throughputability for cars. The only polyclinic of the Filevskaya floodplain is located to the south of the plant. This creates certain inconveniences, especially with a sharp increase in the number of residents.

Future of flood plains

Given that the Kremlin is only 15-20 minutes away from the Filevskaya floodplain by car, the value of the land in this place is obvious. An ecologically clean area of Moscow, next to the largest recreation area - Filevsky and Voroshilovsky parks. The city reconstruction project assumed that along with the construction of a new microdistrict, a road would be laid along the embankment of the Moskva River, the district would be connected to the opposite bank by a bridge. Filevskaya Poyma will receive its own metro station in 2020. The Central Bank of Russia was to build an office and business center along the boulevard. It was planned to build a pedestrian bridge across the Moscow River and provide access to the children's park of miracles.

So far, all grandiose plans have remained only on paper.

How to get to the big city

So far, the only road left is Novofilevsky Proezd and two public transport routes to the metro. True, in harsh winters, when the ice along the river becomes strong enough, residents can take a walk to the Karamyshevskaya embankment. Five hundred meters across the ice and at the service of trolleybuses 43, 61, with buses 48, 294. A connection is opened with the Zvenigorodskoe highway and further the road to the southwest.

In summer you can walk along the western bank of the river to Filevsky Park. The distance is a little over a kilometer from the temple.

Moscow is a big city. Here in an amazing wayQuiet courtyards and noisy highways, stone jungles and calm green microdistricts coexist nearby. Filevskaya floodplain is a vivid example of such contrasts.