- The last pre-war victim of Kitay-gorod was the Kazan Cathedral, demolished in 1936, which stood on the corner of Nikolskaya Street and the Red Square.
- By the beginning of the twentieth century, the largest Russian trading companies, warehouses, banks, and department stores were in Kitay-gorod.
- Iverskiye Gates leading to Red Square are the only extant gates of the Kitay-gorod wall; they were destroyed in 1931 by the Soviet regime and rebuilt in the 1990s.
- After the new district of Moscow – Kitay-gorod – had been formed, people replaced its wooden pale with a stone wall to protect this trading quarter.
- Although ravaged by fire in 1610 and again in 1812, Kitay-gorod continued to be the commercial centre of Moscow.
- His Russian apprentices misheard it and pronounced as Kitai, so it has nothing in common with Chinese at all although in modern Russian [Kitay] means China.
- Kitay-gorod is one of the oldest parts of Moscow. ... Kitay-gorod was once encircled by medieval walls, it was like a town within a bigger town.
- Kitay Gorod the oldest part of Moscow after the Kremlin, emerged in the 14th century due to the expansion of the boundaries of the Kremlin.
- her ne kadar kelime anlamı ile kitay * gorod * olsa da, tam anlamı ile çin mahallesi demek.
Kitay-gorod
Kısa bilgiler
- Yüzölçümü:0,7 km²
Genel bilgiler
Veya Büyük Possad, Rusya'nın başkenti Moskova'nın orta kesiminde 16. ve 17. yüzyıllarda inşa edilmiş günümüzde neredeyse tamamen yıkılmış surların, dar sokakların ve çok yoğun şehir manzarasının kalıntılarıyla tanımlanan kültürel ve tarihi bir alandır. Moskova Kremlini'den Kızıl Meydan ile ayrılmaktadır.
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