Kosmodamianskaya Embankment was named after the Church of Saints Kosma and Damian. During the era of Soviet atheism, in 1932, a residential building was built on the site of the church. At one time, the embankment changed several names: it managed to be Pupyshevskaya, Komissariatskaya, Prychalnaya and Krasnokholmskaya. In 1935, it was dubbed the Gorky Embankment. Only 60 years later, the embankment was returned to its former name, which was given to it in the 16th century.

Kosmodamianskaya Embankment originates at the Bolshoy Ustyinsky Bridge, and the Moscow River washes it on the left side. The first home that attracts attention is the Moscow University of Design and Technology. Since the 1930s, specialists in light industry have been trained here. If you go a little further, it is difficult not to notice the 11-storey building, which was built in 1954 by Mikhail Sinyavsky, Honored Architect of the RSFSR. The building is made in the best traditions of Stalin's Empire style.

Further on the embankment is one of the most striking examples of early classicism — the building of the former Kriegskommissariat. The solid ensemble with voluminous corner towers was built according to the project of the French architect Nicolas Legrand. The buildings erected here in Stalin's times alternate with buildings of the 18th and 19th centuries.

The picturesque part of the waterfront is certainly the architectural complex — the building of the House of Music, the Riverside business center, as well as the 34-storey Swissôtel Krasnye Holmy Tower. This luxury hotel has long been a city landmark. On the top floor is the panoramic City Space bar, which has been included in the list of the ten best European bars.

Kosmodamianskaya Embankment is only one and a half kilometers long and rests on the Shlyuzovaya Bridge. In this short stretch, you can get acquainted with several cultural eras and move from the classicist past to the ultra-modern Moscow reality.