The widest street in Moscow now is Leninsky Prospekt (formerly Bolshaya Kaluzhskaya Street). In some places its width reaches one hundred and twenty meters. Once upon a time, five or six centuries ago, the road to Kaluga passed through forests, fields and villages on this place. Already in the fifteenth century, the roadside village of Vorobyevo, on the banks of the Moscow River, was purchased by the grandmother of Tsar Ivan III. Since then, the history of the development of this future street begins. In 1591, near Kaluga Road there was a camp of the Russian army, which opposed the Crimean Khan Kazy-Girey. After the victory over the Crimeans, the Donskoy Monastery was built on this site. Nobility estates, factories, hospitals were arranged along the road. Some of the household parks have survived to this day at the heart of city parks: Neskuchny Garden and [Vorobyovy Gory] (https://kudago.com/msk/place/vorobievy-gor/), Bogoroditsky. After the fire of 1812, only three thousand houses survived in Moscow, about a third of all Moscow buildings. Some were luckier, some less: 5 houses have been preserved on Pyatnitskaya Street, and 300 on Kaluzhskaya Road.

Bolshaya Kaluzhskaya Street was renamed Leninsky Prospekt for the fortieth anniversary of the October Revolution. Its current length is from Kaluzhskaya Square to the Moscow Ring Road, then it passes into Kievskoye Shosse. The oldest historical value of the avenue is the architectural ensemble of the Donskoy Monastery, which now has a residence permit on Donskaya Square. There is the Alexandria Palace of the eighteenth century, the buildings of the Mining University and the Mineralogical Museum, built in the early nineteenth century, and the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God “The Sign”. But most of the buildings belong to the buildings of the twentieth century, both pre-revolutionary and Soviet times.