Along with three adjacent streets, Frunzenskaya Embankment was named after the Russian Bolshevik military commander Mikhail Frunze.

[4] The embankment as a passage along the Moskva arose after the construction of the iron Crimean Bridge in 1872.

In 1897, the Khamovnicheskaya Embankment project was approved as a city passage to Kamer-Kollezhsky rampart, but it was only partially implemented by 1914.

[6] In the second half of the 1930s, several multi-story residential buildings were built on the embankment, including a complex of residential buildings repeating those built shortly before according to the design of the architect A. G. Mordvinov on Bolshaya Kaluzhskaya Street (now part of Leninsky Prospekt).

According to this plan, the embankment was widened to 50 metres and divided into six blocks, including buildings built in 1935-1940.