Mira Avenue

Mira Avenue
Clockwise from top: Cosmos Hotel, The main entrance to VDNKh, Residential complex Tricolor
Native nameПроспект Мира (Russian)
Length8.9 km (5.5 mi)
LocationMoscow
Central Administrative Okrug
North-Eastern Administrative Okrug
Nearest metro station#6 Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line Sukharevskaya
#5 Koltsevaya line Prospekt Mira
#6 Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line Prospekt Mira
#6 Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line Rizhskaya
#6 Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line Alekseyevskaya
#6 Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line VDNKh

Prospect Mira (Russian: Проспект Мира, "Avenue of Peace") is a major arterial avenue in the north-east of Moscow. Until 1957, different sections of the avenue were named 1st Meschanskaya Street, Trinity Highway, Great Alekseevskaya Street, Great Rostokinskiy Street and Yaroslavl Highway. Today, it is one of the longest Moscow arteries, measuring 8.9 kilometres (5.5 mi) in length. It is located in the Sukharev area and is a continuation of Sretenka and Yenisei Streets, linking the Garden Ring near Sklifosovsky Hospital to the Moscow MKAD ring road extension of the M8 expressway.