Presnya
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Presnya is a district in Central Moscow, the district is home to famous places like the Moscow Zoo, White House of Russia, Seven Sisters-apartment building on Kotelnicheskaya Naberezhnaya and Patriarshy Ponds.
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| Status: | Administrative district |
| Area: | 1,122 km² |
| Population: | 116,979 (2002 census) |
| Population density: | 104.26 pers/km² |
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[edit] History
According to a famous version, the district was named after a 2,5 km long creek named Presnya in Moscow Butyrkakh (Бутырках). This creek had clean, transparent, fresh water. Presnya's coasts began to populate more than in other places, according to the history. In the 17 century Presnya already had a comparatively significant population, Presnya had four ponds, dug out in 1683 to the Patriarch Joachim.
[edit] Neighborhoods
Moscow-City is a large downtown complex in Moscow. It's going to be the business and financial center of Moscow.
It was created in the early 1990s and was named "Moscow International Business Center" (MBIC) or Moscow-City and became the greatest investment and building project in Russia and Europe.
Patriarshy Ponds is a wealthy residential area in the north-west of Presnya. The area is very old and has famous residents like Alla Pugachova living there. There used to be many ponds, but there is just one pond existing now. The pond is 9,900 square metres; and the depth is about 2 m.
It's the site of Bulgakov's novel Master and Margarita.
