Shabolovka Street

Shabolovka (Russian: Ша́боловка) is a street in the south of Moscow's city centre (located in Yakimanka, Donskoy, and Danilovsky districts), known since the middle of the 18th century.

The street originally fared as a connecting road to the Southern Village of Shabolovo [ru] which is nowadays within modern Cheryomushki District.

On the official map of Moscow, in 1739 Shabolovka already laid claim to buildings in the likes of the Donskoy Monastery.

One huge yard with a garden belonged at the time Varvarinskoye orphanage (in honour of the martyr Varvara Yakovleva).

Instead of the previous wooden structures, homes were now built of stone with three or four floors with surrounding palisade and green facades.

In the basement of the house in 1916 was placed in a 1907 printing of the Moscow district organisation RSDLP (РСДРП) Communist party of the Soviet Union.

In 1917, during the events of the October Revolution the workers of the tramway aided in taking away wounded from the barricades and the dispatch of weapons and products.

The tramway was subsequently renamed "The first Moscow Tramway in the name of Apakov" in honour of the leader of the Workers Peter Apakov Tower and hangar for the Antenna Radio Comintern was built in the courtyard of the house 51 (the numbering of houses was changed later) on the orders of Lenin in 1922.