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Tagansky District (English)
Таганский район (Russian)

Coat of Arms
Administrative center
Established
Area
Area
- Rank		 8.0 km²
Population (as of the 2002 Census)
Population
- Rank
- Density
- Urban
- Rural		 109,993 inhabitants

13,749.1 inhab. / km²
Local government (as of 18.04.2004)
Head of Uprava Oleg Alexeyevich Borisov
Legislative body
Administrative structure
Cities/towns
Urban-type settlements
Rural localities
Other information
Official website
http://www.uprtag.ru/
For other uses, see Taganka.

Taganksky District (Russian: Таганский район, Таганка), of Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow, Russia, is located east of Kitai-gorod. It takes its name from the former Taganskaya sloboda, where in the 16th century the copper-smiths lived. The modern center of this district is the Taganskaya Square, where the Taganka Theatre is located.

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[edit] History

This section is based on P.V.Sytin's "History of Moscow Streets" (1948)

Present-day Solyanka, Taganskaya and Vorontsovskaya streets, the westbound road starting at Zaryadye, are a part of an old road to Kolomna and Ryazan that existed since thirteenth century. Different names of the same road are a legacy of historical growth, contained within concentric rings of city walls.

The name of the district goes back to Turkic tagan, an iron tripod uses to suspend cooking pots over open fire. Blacksmiths making this hardware for muscovite army settled in Taganskaya Sloboda in seventeenth century. In 1632, the settlement counted 93 households. A large settlement of craftsmen, counting 189 households, existed on Yauza bank. Even larger sloboda settlements were housing streltsy troops, but where disbanded after Streltsy Uprising of 1698. The vacant lots where taken over by traders, in particular Old Believers, who formed Rogozhskoye settlement and established Rogozhskoye Cemetery (1771) on the eastern edge of present-day district.

In 1762-1772, Karl Blank designed and built The Orphanage, which, expanding over time under the management of Giliardi family, took over all the territory between Zaryadye, Yauza and Solyanka street.

Higher social classes appreciated Taganka since 1790s, when Batashov family built a neoclassicist Batashov Palace (1798). In 1812, when French troops took over Moscow, the palace housed Joachim Murat's headquarters; this, however, did not save the palace from the fire that razed most of Moscow; Batashov had to set aside 300,000 roubles to fix the damages. In 1876, the palace was converted to a public hospital.

Fire of 1812 destroyed Tagansky District, with a notable exception of the Orphanage, then converted to a hospital and defended by local police headed by Ivan Tutolmin, manager of the Orphanage.

Raising the cross on the belfry of Rogozhskoe Cemetery, Sept. 20, 1909.
Raising the cross on the belfry of Rogozhskoe Cemetery, Sept. 20, 1909.

[edit] Modern history

Current social problems, in the order listed on the official site of its administration:

  • Bad ecology, caused by automobiles and heavy industry inside the district and in adjacent territories
  • Worn-out, obsolete city utilities, medical and educational facilities, 1920s housing
  • High share of kommunalka communal housing
  • High number of historical buildings in dire need of restoration or rebuilding
  • High concentration of major roads and very few parking spaces
  • Disparity between central and peripheral territories

[edit] Notable cultural and educational facilities

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