15 Leontievsky Lane

Leontievsky Lane is an alley in the Central Administrative District of the city of Moscow. It runs from Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street to Tverskaya, lies between Tverskaya Boulevard and Voznesensky Lane. No. 15 - a residential building of workers of the Central Committee of the CPSU was built in 1964 by architect M. N. Kruglov. The highest leaders of the party and the Soviet government lived here (G. V. Romanov, M. S. Solomentsev, D. F. Ustinov, N. G. Egorychev, V. F. Garbuzov (memorial plaque, 1988, sculptor M. N. Smirnov, architect A. I. Smagin) and others), aircraft designer A. N. Tupolev. Previously, there was a small building on this site, which in the late 1850s belonged to the uncle of the writer N. S. Leskov, with whom the writer stayed during visits to the capital. The actress E. N. Vasilyeva, who was close friends with the playwright A. N. Ostrovsky, lived here in the 1860s. In May 1914, the house housed the Museum of Urban Economy of Moscow under the direction of historian P. V. Sytin. Nearby: Tverskaya Boulevard, gymnasiums, schools, shops, cafes and restaurants.