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Moscow's second centremost ring road

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The Boulevard Ring (Russian: Бульва́рное кольцо́; transliteration: Bulvarnoye Koltso) is Moscow's second innermost ring road (the first is formed by the Central Squares of Moscow running along the former walls of Kitai-gorod). Boulevards form a semicircular chain along the western, northern and eastern sides of the historical White City of Moscow; in the south the incomplete ring is terminated by the embankments of Moskva River.

The first of the boulevards, Tverskoy Boulevard, emerged in 1796, but the ring was completely developed in 1820s, after the disastrous 1812 fire. The Ring replaced the medieval walls of the White City in the 1820s. The wall itself was razed in 1760, and despite the royal decrees to keep the site clear, the area was soon built over with private and state property. The Fire of Moscow destroyed many of those buildings, allowing the city planners to replace them with wide green boulevards.

In the 20th century, the width of the Boulevard Ring was expanded, as the formerly paved areas along the Pokrovsky Boulevard and Strastnoy Boulevard were planted with trees. Plans to complete the ring through Zamoskvorechye never materialized, however. These plans to properly terminate the ring through Yakimanka and Zamoskvorechye districts, proposed in 1935, periodically resurface in city planners' discussions.

List of boulevards

Gogolevsky Boulevard	Nikitsky Boulevard	Tverskoy Boulevard	Strastnoy Boulevard

Petrovsky Boulevard			Rozhdestvensky Boulevard

Sretensky Boulevard	Chistoprudny Boulevard	Pokrovsky Boulevard	Yauzsky Boulevard

v t e Roads in Moscow
Ring roads	Kremlin Ring Boulevard Ring Garden Ring Third Ring Road Chord Ring Moscow Ring Road Central Ring Road Moscow Small Ring Road
Chord roads	North-Eastern Chord North-Western Chord South-Eastern Chord Southern Rocade
Outbound arterial roads	Entuziastov Highway Nosovikhinskoye Highway Ryazansky Avenue Volgogradsky Avenue Lyublinskaya Street Relief road for Lyublinskaya Street Kashirskoye Highway Lipetskaya Street Varshavskoye Highway Sevastopolsky Avenue Profsoyuznaya Street Leninsky Avenue Vernadskogo Avenue Michurinsky Avenue Generala Dorokhova Avenue Mozhayskoye Highway Northern relief road for Kutuzovsky Avenue Rublyovskoye Highway Marshala Zhukova Avenue Volokolamskoye Highway Leningradskoye Highway North-Eastern Chord Dmitrovskoye Highway Altufyevskoye Highway Yaroslavskoye Highway Shchyolkovskoye Highway
Toll roads	Bagration Avenue [ru]
Cancelled roads	Fourth Ring Road [ru]
Road junctions	Businovskaya Interchange [ru]
Road tunnels	Lefortovo Tunnel North-Western Tunnel
Road bridges	Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge Bolshoy Krasnokholmsky Bridge Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge Bolshoy Ustinsky Bridge Borodinsky Bridge Krasnoluzhsky Bridge Krymsky Bridge Maly Krasnokholmsky Bridge Novospassky Bridge Shlyuzovoy Bridge Zhivopisny Bridge
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List of boulevards

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