The general plan of the development of Moscow released in 1935 suggested that a wide avenue should be built between
Lubyanka Square in the center of Moscow and Komsomolskaya Square, which contains three of the main railway stations in Moscow. The entire blocks of historical buildings were to be demolished. It was decided that a number of administrative buildings, including ministries, would be built along the avenue. Some of the projects, including the building of People's Commissariat for Agriculture by
Alexey Shchusev and
Tsentrosoyuz building by
Le Corbusier were completed, however, the avenue was not built because of the war. The construction only resumed in the 1960s, with a number of
modernist and
post-modernist buildings. It was decided that after completion, the avenue will get the name of
Novokirovsky Avenue (), however, the stretch to Turgenevskaya Square was only completed in the end of the 1980s, and the avenue got the name of Andrey Sakharov. The extension to Lubyanka Square has never been realized. ==References==