Preobrazhenskoye District

Coordinates: 55°47′53″N 37°43′33″E / 55.79806°N 37.72583°E / 55.79806; 37.72583

Preobrazhenskoye District (Russian: райо́н Преображе́нское) is a district of Eastern Administrative Okrug in the federal city of Moscow, Russia.

Etymology

The district is named after the village of Preobrazhenskoye, where the residence of Alexis of Russia and Peter the Great was located.

History

The village of Preobrazhenskoye first appears in records in 1661. At that time two churches were built there; the village took its name after one of them - the Church of the Transfiguration at Preobrazhenskoye. In 1672, during the rule of Alexis of Russia, the first professional theater in Russia was founded here. On November 18 1699, secret diplomatic negotiations between Peter the Great and Western embassies started here, resulting in the signing of an alliance between Russia, Denmark, and Poland-Lithuania against Sweden (November 22, 1699) and the subsequent Great Northern War of 1700-1721.

The district has a reputation as the cradle of the Imperial Russian Navy. Peter the Great (born 1672) spent his adolescent years here together with his mother Natalya Naryshkina - exiled by the order of his half-sister the Tsarevna Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia (regent: 1682-1689). The famous toy army of Peter the Great consisting of Preobrazhensky and Semyonovsky regiments developed here in the 1680s. Peter began implementing the idea of creating a Russian Navy on the nearby Yauza River. His famous botik, which came to be known as the "grandfather of Russian Navy", was re-launched there.

Transportation

There are forty streets total in the district.

The bridges in the district include:

• Preobrazhensky Metro Bridge
• Matrossky Bridge
• Elektrozavodsky Bridge

Public transportation consists of bus, trolleybus, and tram routes.

The district is home to Preobrazhenskaya Ploshchad and Bulvar Rokossovskogo Metro stations. Cherkizovskaya metro station is located nearby.

Sights

The historical Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery is located in the district.

Sports

Lokomotiv association football stadium is located in the district, near Cherkizovskaya metro station. The stadium hosts FC Lokomotiv Moscow team and many national and UEFA matches.

References

Administrative divisions of Moscow
Central Administrative Okrug	Arbat Basmanny Khamovniki Krasnoselsky Meshchansky Presnensky Tagansky Tverskoy Yakimanka Zamoskvorechye	.
Northern Administrative Okrug	Aeroport Begovoy Beskudnikovsky Dmitrovsky Golovinsky Khoroshyovsky Khovrino Koptevo Levoberezhny Molzhaninovsky Savyolovsky Sokol Timiryazevsky Vostochnoye Degunino Voykovsky Zapadnoye Degunino
North-Eastern Administrative Okrug	Alexeyevsky Altufyevsky Babushkinsky Bibirevo Butyrsky Lianozovo Losinoostrovsky Marfino Maryina roshcha Ostankinsky Otradnoye Rostokino Severnoye Medvedkovo Severny Sviblovo Yaroslavsky Yuzhnoye Medvedkovo
Eastern Administrative Okrug	Bogorodskoye Golyanovo Ivanovskoye Izmaylovo Kosino-Ukhtomsky Metrogorodok Novogireyevo Novokosino Perovo Preobrazhenskoye Severnoye Izmaylovo Sokolinaya gora Sokolniki Veshnyaki Vostochnoye Izmaylovo Vostochny
South-Eastern Administrative Okrug	Kapotnya Kuzminki Lefortovo Lyublino Maryino Nekrasovka Nizhegorodsky Pechatniki Ryazansky Tekstilshchiki Vykhino-Zhulebino Yuzhnoportovy
Southern Administrative Okrug	Biryulyovo Vostochnoye Biryulyovo Zapadnoye Brateyevo Chertanovo Severnoye Chertanovo Tsentralnoye Chertanovo Yuzhnoye Danilovsky Donskoy Moskvorechye-Saburovo Nagatino-Sadovniki Nagatinsky Zaton Nagorny Orekhovo-Borisovo Severnoye Orekhovo-Borisovo Yuzhnoye Tsaritsyno Zyablikovo
South-Western Administrative Okrug	Akademichesky Cheryomushki Gagarinsky Konkovo Kotlovka Lomonosovsky Obruchevsky Severnoye Butovo Tyoply Stan Yasenevo Yuzhnoye Butovo Zyuzino
Western Administrative Okrug	Dorogomilovo Filyovsky park Fili-Davydkovo Krylatskoye Kuntsevo Mozhaysky Novo-Peredelkino Ochakovo-Matveyevskoye Prospekt Vernadskogo Ramenki Solntsevo Troparyovo-Nikulino Vnukovo
North-Western Administrative Okrug	Khoroshevo-Mnevniki Kurkino Mitino Pokrovskoye-Streshevo Severnoye Tushino Shchukino Strogino Yuzhnoye Tushino
Zelenogradsky Administrative Okrug	Kryukovo Matushkino Savyolki Silino Staroye Kryukovo
Novomoskovsky Administrative Okrug	Desyonovskoye Filimonkovskoye Kokoshkino Marushkinskoye Moskovsky Mosrentgen Ryazanovskoye Sosenskoye Shcherbinka Vnukovskoye Voskresenskoye
Troitsky Administrative Okrug	Kiyevsky Klenovskoye Krasnopakhorskoye Mikhaylovo-Yartsevskoye Novofyodorovskoye Pervomayskoye Rogovskoye Shchapovskoye Troitsky Voronovskoye