Clean Ponds

The Clean Ponds (Russian: Чистые пруды, romanized: Chistye prudy) is a large pond in Moscow, Russia, located in Basmanny District, on the Boulevard Ring.

According to retired KGB colonel Victor Cherkashin, author of Spy Handler: Memoir of a KGB Officer: The True Story of the Man Who Recruited Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames, the adjoining 'Chistyi Prudy (Clean Ponds)' is also part of "an old, prestigious neighborhood."

On page 177 of his book, Victor Cherkashin spells the area as 'Chistyi' as opposed to 'Chistye.

'[1] The ponds were formed by a dam on the Rachka River which used to flow underneath the walls of the White City in the 17th century.

[2] The Clean Ponds are fed by a system of water pipes.