In the 17th century, Okhotny Ryad was located on the left bank of the Neglinnaya River on the site of the current building of the Historical Museum.

[1] After the fire of 1812, stone one-story trading premises with dozens of poultry slaughterhouses were built on the site of the burnt wooden shops.

In the second half of the 19th – early 20th centuries, Okhotny Ryad began to symbolize the abundance, hospitality and satiety of Moscow, entering Russian proverbs.

However, due to the participation of shopkeepers in attacks on intellectuals and Jews, the image of an Okhotny Ryad resident as a reactionary and pogromist was formed.

In the 1920s, shops began to be torn down in Okhotny Ryad, and in the 1930s, trade was transferred to Tsvetnoy Boulevard, which marked the beginning of the Central Market.