• The Clean Ponds (Russian: Чистые пруды, romanized: Chistye prudy) is a large pond in Moscow, Russia, located in Basmanny District, on the Boulevard Ring.
  • The first thing to clean in a pond is any floating surface debris, as this will eventually sink and contribute to sludge at the bottom of the pond floor.
  • Every time I get to Clean Ponds and I draw in a breath of fresh air in the trees' shade, I am carried back several centuries and remember the history of this place.
  • Four inseparable friends — Sergei, Nina, Oska and Zhenya — spent all their school childhood on the Clean Ponds, in Moscow.
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  • The Clean Ponds is a lovely old historic area with many beautiful buildings.
  • But in the beginning of the18th century, Prince Alexander Menshikov, who settled there, shut down the market and ordered to clean the ponds.
  • Routine pond cleaning to remove plant matter should be done once a year in spring or fall.