Mosfilmovskaya Street

Mosfilmovskaya Street
	Clockwise from top: House on Mosfilmovskaya, Embassy of Germany, Residential complex Sparrow Hills
Native name	Мосфильмовская улица (Russian)
Length	3 km (1.9 mi)
Location	Moscow; Western Administrative Okrug; Ramenki District
Nearest metro station	Kiyevskaya ; Kiyevskaya ; Kiyevskaya ; Universitet ; Lomonosovsky Prospekt ; Ramenki

Mosfilmovskaya Street (Russian: Мосфи́льмовская у́лица, romanised: Mosfílmovskaya úlitsa), formerly also Potylikha Street (Russian: Улица Поты́лиха), is a street in Ramenki District, West Administrative District, Moscow, where the Mosfilm Studios and many foreign embassies are located.

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The name Mosfilmovskaya was officially adopted in 1939. Being outside the Garden Ring (Садовое Кольцо), which encircles central Moscow, the street runs south-west across a residential area between the Moskva (river) and its tributary Setun (river) (Сетунь). Moscow's Sparrow Hills (known as Lenin Hills during the Soviet era) are quite close here.

Around the 17th century the area was known as the estate of Troitskoye-Golenishchevo (another name being Golenishchevo-Kutuzovo), a country seat of the Kutuzov family, whose prominent descendant, Russian field marshal Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov (1745-1813) fought Napoleon I of France during Patriotic War of 1812. A major landmark surviving from that time is the Trinity Church (1644–45).

Mosfilmovskaya Street

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