Gorky Street, fifty years of change

GORKY Street, Moscow, formerly known as Tverskaya Street, after the city of Tver (now Kalinin) to which it led, epitomizes the changes the Soviet capital has experienced over the past fifty years. As Tverskaya Street it was the main trading link between Moscow and Tver, one of the oldest cities of R...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Unesco Courier 1989-08, Vol.42 (8), p.26
1. Verfasser: Kopp, Anatole
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:GORKY Street, Moscow, formerly known as Tverskaya Street, after the city of Tver (now Kalinin) to which it led, epitomizes the changes the Soviet capital has experienced over the past fifty years. As Tverskaya Street it was the main trading link between Moscow and Tver, one of the oldest cities of Russia. Lined with luxury shops, their signs written in both French and Russian, it was at that time one of Moscow's liveliest thoroughfares.
ISSN:0041-5278
1993-8616