Lefortovo District

Lefortovo District straddles the Yauza River in eastern Moscow, and its riverside position helped shape it into a military quarter during the reign of Peter the Great. The district is named for François Le Fort, the Swiss-born associate of Peter I, and Lefortovo Palace was built for him at the end of the 17th century. Nearby Lefortovo Park retains the formal character of an early-18th-century estate landscape, while the monumental Catherine Palace recalls the area’s long institutional and military presence. Today, Lefortovo combines major roads, university buildings and residential streets with traces of imperial Moscow. Move on to other webcams in Moscow to compare urban landscapes and settings around the Yauza River.

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