Иван III Васильевич
After the fire of 1494, Ivan III of Russia set up his country residence on the western bank of the Yauza in Vorontsovo (). During the same period potters, blacksmiths and other craftsmen deemed a fire hazard were evicted from Moscow proper onto the opposite, eastern bank of the Yauza (the present-day area of Taganka Square), thus beginning the industrialization of the river.