Power Station "Branch GES-1" (Moscow)
Russia /
Moscow /
Moscow /
Bolotnaya naberezhnaya, 15
World
/ Russia
/ Moscow
/ Moscow
, 1 km from center (Москва)
World / Russia / Moscow City / Central
Art Nouveau / Jugendstil (architecture), arts centre, community centre / hall, 1910_construction, art museum / art gallery, 1907_construction, object of cultural heritage of regional importance (Russia), 2021_construction
Behind the Kirillov territory rise the two tall slender towers of a large thermal power station that serves the central city district. Power Station "Branch GES-1" was built especially to supply electricity to the Moscow trams, never a popular form of city transportation. In 1904 the construction started on part of the territory of the former wine and salt warehouses. This impressive building housed the power station equipment which was made for the Moscow branch of «the Society of Electric Illumination» and the factory of «Siemens and Galske» in Petersburg. The power station opened on February, 15th, 1907. This industrial building was a project of the architect Vasily N. Bashkirov (1870-?) and is considered an excellent example of industrial architecture of this period.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 55°44'33"N 37°36'46"E
- Udarnik Cinema 0.3 km
- Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge under revamp 0.7 km
- Krymsky Bridge 1.3 km
- Gorky Park 1.6 km
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1.9 km
- Frunze Military Academy 2.3 km
- Trubetsky Park 2.8 km
- Novodevichy Park 4.2 km
- Belorusskaya Metro Station (Koltsevaya Line) 4.3 km
- Krasnaya Presnya Park 4.3 km
- Golden Mile 0.8 km
- Balchug Island 1 km
- Zemlyanoy Gorod 1.1 km
- Tsentralny Administrative Okrug 1.2 km
- Arbat District 1.6 km
- Zamoskvorechye District 1.6 km
- Yakimanka District 1.6 km
- Bely Gorod ('The White Town') 1.6 km
- Khamovniki District 2.7 km
- Presnensky District 3.7 km