Novaya Basmannaya Street (in 1918-1922 – Kommuny Street, in the 17th century – Kapitanskaya Slobidka) is a street in the Central Administrative District of Moscow. Separates Basmanny and Krasnoselsky districts. It runs from Lermontovskaya Square on the Garden Ring to Razgulay Square.
The numbering of houses is carried out from Lermontovskaya Square. On Novaya Basmannaya Street there are: from the even side Basmanny dead end, Alexander Lukyanov Street; from the odd side Krasnovorotsky passage, Basmanny lane, 1st Basmanny lane.
The street appeares no earlier than the 1640s. Foreign officers of the regiments organized by Peter the Great lived here. It is Peter who is credited with the authorship of the sketch of the Peter and Paul Church, which was completed in 1723.
After the transfer of the capital to St. Petersburg, the officers left the settlement, and its lands were settled by merchants. By 1739, when the Michurin plan of Moscow was drawn up, the street had already acquired its current form (the grid of Basmanny lanes was formed only before the First World War).
By the end of the 18th century, the merchants gradually lost their lands to the higher nobility. The fate of the street is closely connected with the dynasties of the Kurakins and Demidovs. Prince A. B. Kurakin established an almshouse in 1742, and his descendants built a vast palace on the land between the Garden Ring and the current railway line. Further north, the vast lands of the Demidovs were located; in addition to them, the Golovins, Golitsyns, and Trubetskoys moved into the former settlement.
Main attractions
On the odd side
No. 5 — Object of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation of regional significance (Moscow). Polyclinic of the People’s Commissariat of Railways (1932, architects I. A. Fomin, N. Petrov, A. D. Tarle), later – a polyclinic of the Ministry of Railways, now – Russian Railways.
No. 9/2-4 — An object of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation of federal significance. Residential building (XVIII century, architect M. F. Kazakov).
No. 11 — Object of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation of federal significance. Church of the Apostles Peter and Paul in Basmannaya Sloboda (1704-1723, architect (probably) I.P. Zarudny).
No. 13 — An object of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation of federal significance. An ordinary three-story house of the middle of the 19th century was once one of the most beautiful private palaces in Moscow, owned by Nikolai Petrovich Vysotsky.
No. 19 – Object of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation of federal significance. Vasily Khludov’s mansion (1882, architect R. I. Klein), based on an 18th-century mansion.
No. 21 building 1 – a wooden house of the XIX century on the land of the Demidovs.
No. 23 k. 1, 23-a k. 1 — Object of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation of regional significance. The Shibaevs’ estate (buildings of the 18th-19th centuries, architect A.V. Ivanov).
No. 25 – the apartment building of the Moscow City Council (P. N. Ivantsova), 1912, architect F. N. Kolbe.
No. 27 – Object of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation of federal significance. The house of M. M. Perovskaya (Denisiev), the beginning of the 19th century.
No. 29 – Object of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation of federal significance. Basmannaya police unit (1820s, founded in 1782). Now in disrepair.
No. 31 – the profitable house of M. A. Maltsev (built on in 1912-1913 by the architect Nikolai Blagoveshchensky).
No. 33 is an 18th-century house built on in the 1920s. At the beginning of the 20th century, the architect Vasily Motylev lived here.
No. 35 – tenement house (1899, architect Pyotr Vinogradov).
On the even side
No. 2 — Object of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation of regional significance (Moscow). Building of the Ministry of Railways (Russian Railways) (1930, architect I. A. Fomin).
No. 4, k. 1 — An object of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation of federal significance. House of Nationalities, former Kurakinsky almshouse. Rebuilt in 1902 according to the design of the architect Mikhail Shutsman.
No. 4, k. 6, p. 2 — An object of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation of federal significance. City estate of the Kurakins, XVIII century, architect Rodion Kazakov.
No. 10/12 – Apartment building of the Moscow Basmanny Association, 1913, architect A. N. Zeligson.
No. 10 (building in the yard) – profitable house of A. S. Shiryaev (1911-1912, architect Osip Shishkovsky).
No. 12 – Object of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation of federal significance. Pleshcheev’s house (XVIII century, architect Matvey Kazakov).
No. 14 — Object of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation of federal significance. City estate of N. D. Stakheev (1898-1912, architect Mikhail Bugrovsky).
No. 16 – the city estate of I.K. Prove (1870, architect Robert Goedicke).
No. 16, building 3 – R. I. Prove’s apartment building (1912-1913, architect Boris Velikovsky).
No. 20 — Object of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation of regional significance (Moscow). City estate of E. G. Levasheva. P. Ya. Chaadaev lived and died here in 1833-1856. Now the Central Research Radio Engineering Institute.
No. 22/2 — Object of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation of regional significance. Estate of F. I. Prove – A. I. Kalish (1892, architect K. V. Treiman).
No. 26 – Object of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation of federal significance. Demidov’s house (1790) with two side wings. Since 1876 – Basmannaya hospital, then the 6th city hospital, abolished in 2015.
No. 28 is the profitable house of M. A. Maltsev in the Art Nouveau style with freak masks (1905, architect N. N. Zherikhov).
No. 28 (in the yard) – tenement house (1896, architect I. A. Koshechkin).
Transport
Bus T24 passes along the street.
Metro: Komsomolskaya (ring), Komsomolskaya (radial), Krasnye vorota.
Attractions around: Red gate Stalin skyscraper, Myasnitskaya Street, Academician Sakharov Avenue, Garden Ring, Bauman Garden, Kalanchevskaya Street, Lermontovskaya Square, Stakheev mansion, Hilton-Leningradskaya, Yelokhovo Cathedral.
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