Academician Sakharov Avenue, Moscow

Academician Sakharov Avenue

The southern end of the avenue
Native name	Проспект Академика Сахарова (Russian)
Location	Moscow, Russia Central Administrative Okrug Krasnoselsky District
Nearest metro station	Komsomolskaya (Sokolnicheskaya Line and Koltsevaya Line), Chistye Prudy, Turgenevskaya, Sretensky Bulvar

Academician Sakharov Avenue (Russian: Проспект Академика Сахарова, Prospekt Akademika Sakharova) is a street in the center of Moscow, in Krasnoselsky District. In the south, the street is limited by Turgenevskaya Square and the Boulevard Ring. In the north, Academician Sakharov Prospect ends at the T-shape crossing with Kalanchyovskaya Street, close to Komsomolskaya Square. In the middle, it crosses the Garden Ring (Sadovaya-Spasskaya Street).

The avenue was named in 1990 and commemorates Andrey Sakharov, a physicist and a Nobel Peace Prize winner.^[1]