Mosfilmovskaya Street


Mosfilmovskaya Street, formerly also Potylikha Street, is a street in Ramenki District, West Administrative District, Moscow, where the Mosfilm Studios and many foreign embassies are located.
The name Mosfilmovskaya was officially adopted in 1939. Being outside the Garden Ring, which encircles central Moscow, the street runs south-west across a residential area between the Moskva (river) and its tributary Setun (river). Moscow's Sparrow Hills are quite close here.
Around the 17th century the area was known as the estate of Troitskoye-Golenishchevo, a country seat of the Kutuzov family, whose prominent descendant, Russian field marshal Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov fought Napoleon I of France during Patriotic War of 1812. A major landmark surviving from that time is the Trinity Church.

Notable buildings

The embassies of Angola and the United Arab Emirates are located nearby, in Ulofa Palme Street. The embassy of the People's Republic of China is located at 6 Druzhby Street, within a ten-minute walk from Mosfilmovskaya Street.