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| Native name | Пушкинская площадь (Russian) |
|---|---|
| Location | Moscow Central Administrative Okrug Tverskoy District |
| Nearest metro station |  Tverskaya Pushkinskaya Chekhovskaya |
| Coordinates | 55°45′56″N37°36′21″E / 55.76556°N 37.60583°E /55.76556; 37.60583 |
Pushkinskaya Square orPushkin Square (Russian:Пу́шкинская пло́щадь) is apedestrian open space in theTverskoy District in centralMoscow. Historically, it was known asStrastnaya Square (Russian:Страстная площадь) before being renamed forAlexander Pushkin in 1937.[1][2]
It is located at the junction of theBoulevard Ring (Tverskoy Boulevard to the southwest andStrastnoy Boulevard to the northeast) andTverskaya Street, 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) northwest of theKremlin. It is not only one of the busiestcity squares in Moscow, but also one of the busiest in the world.
The former Strastnaya Square name originates from the Passion Monastery (Russian:Страстной монастырь, Strastnoy Monastery), which was demolished in the 1930s by the Soviet regime.
At the center of the square is a statue of Pushkin, funded by public subscription andunveiled byIvan Turgenev andFyodor Dostoyevsky in 1880. In 1950,Joseph Stalin had the statue moved to the other side of the Tverskaya Street, where the historic Passion Monastery had formerly stood. On 5 December 1965,Glasnost Meeting, the first spontaneous public political demonstration in the Soviet Union after the Second World War, took place here. In January 1990, the firstMcDonald's restaurant in Soviet Union and largest one in the world at that time opened here.
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