Yakimanka Destrict

**Yakimanka Destrict** () is a destrict o Central Admeenistrative Okrug o Moscow, Roushie. Population:  

It is namit efter the umwhile kirk o Saunt Joachim an Saunt Anne. Yakimanka contains the wastren hauf o the historical Zamoskvorechye aurie (its eastren hauf is admeenistered as Zamoskvorechye Destrict proper), includin the Tretyakov Gallery an the territories o Gorky Pairk an Neskuchny Sad. The boondary atween Yakimanka an Zamoskvorechye destricts follaes Balchug Street an Bolshaya Ordynka Street (north o Garden Ring), Korovy Val an Mytnaya streets (sooth o Garden Ring).

## Notable biggins, cultural an eddicational facilities

### Museums
*Tretyakov Gallery
*Tretyakov Gallery exhibition haw on Krymsky Val, wi the nearbi sculptur pairk
*Airt Museum o Vasili Tropinin an his contemporars (Schetininsky, 10)
*Averky Kirillov estate in Bersenevka (bi appointment)
*Hoose on Embankment museum www.museum.ru (bi appointment)
*Marat Gelman gallery (Malaya Polyanka, 7/7)

### Kirks
*Marfo-Mariinsky Convent (1908–1912, airchitect: Alexey Shchusev, Bolshaya Ordynka, 34)
*Kirk o the Dormition (1695–1697, Bolshaya Polyanka, 37) www.pravoslavie.ru
*Kirk o the Iberie Icon o Theotokos at Childer's Hospital (1896–1901, Bolshaya Polyanka, 20) www.pravoslavie.ru
*Kirk o the Icon o Theotokos, the Joy in Sorrow (1831–1836, airchitect: Joseph Bove) photo www.pravoslavie.ru
*Kirk o the Resurrection in Kadashi (2nt Kadashevsky 7-14) www.pravoslavie.ru
*Saunt Sophia Kirk in Sadovniki (1682–1686, belltower: 1862–1868, Sofiyskaya naberezhnaya, 32) photo
*Kirk o St. Catherine (1766–1767, airchitect: Karl Blank, Bolshaya Ordynka, 60/2) www.pravoslavie.ru
*Kirk o St. Gregory o Nyssa (1668–1679, Bolshaya Polyanka, 29A) www.pravoslavie.ru
*Kirk o St. John the Warrior (1704–1717, Bolshaya Yakimanka, 46) www.pravoslavie.ru
*Kirk o St. Maron the Hermit in *Baby Gorodok*, umwhile Pols Sloboda (1727–1730, Bolshaya Yakimanka 32-2) www.pravoslavie.ru
*Kirk o St. Mikhail o Chernigov an Fyodor (1675, Chernigovsky, 3) www.pravoslavie.ru
*Kirk o St. Nicholas in Bersenevka (1656–1657, Bersenevskaya Naberezhnaya, 18)
*Kirk o St. Nicholas in Tolmachi (Maly Tolmachevsky, 9) www.pravoslavie.ru
*Kirk o the Trinity in Shabolovka (1885–1895, Shabolovka, 21)
*Kirks o First Ceety Hospital (Leninsky Prospect, 8)

### Theatres
*Theatre Estrady in the House on Embankment

### Memorial biggins
*Embassy o Fraunce, umwhile Igumnov Hoose, 1888–1895 (www.ambafrance.ru , www.rian.ru , o-moskve.narod.ru )
*Single-story hoose in Bolshaya Yakimanka, 8, remains o auld Golutvin sloboda
*Writers' Biggin (Lavrushinsky lane, athort Tretyakov Gallery)

## Govrenment an infrastructur

The Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC or MAK), the aviation accident technical investigation body o the Commonwalth o Unthirlt States, haes its heid office in the destrict.

The Federal Penitentiary Service haes its heid office in Yakimanka Destrict.

## Public transportation access
Moscow Metro:
*Polyanka, Tretyakovskaya - north an centre
*Oktyabrskaya-Radialnaya, Oktyabrskaya-Koltsevaya - sooth
*Dobryninskaya, Serpukhovskaya - sooth-east

## References

## Freemit airtins

*Offeecial wabsteid o Yakimanka Destrict 
*1882 photographs, temples o Zamoskvorechye an Yakimanka. Russian State Library