PROSPEKT MIRA

Avenue in north-east Moscow

Prospekt Mira is an avenue that starts on Sukharevskaya Square and ends on the Severyaninsky overpass, which turns into Yaroslavskoye Shosse.  The street has several previous names like Meshchanskaya Street, Troitskoye Shosse, Bolshaya Alekseyevskaya Street, Bolshaya Rostokinskaya Street, and part of Yaroslavskoye Shosse. In the 1930s, reconstruction began with the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition, and a sculptural group installed the famous “Worker and Kolhoz Woman.” Later in the second half of the nineteenth century, houses started being developed on Prospekt Mira in addition to a road paved by an American company.