Bolotnaya Square

Bolotnaya Square

Native name	Болотная площадь (Russian)
Location	Moscow Central Administrative Okrug Yakimanka District
Postal code	119072
Nearest metro station	Biblioteka Imeni Lenina Tretyakovskaya Polyanka Borovitskaya
Coordinates	55°44′42″N 37°37′03″E / 55.74500°N 37.61750°E / 55.74500; 37.61750

Bolotnaya Square (Russian: Болотная площадь, Bolotnaya ploshchad) is a square in the center of Moscow, in Yakimanka District, south of the Moscow Kremlin, between the Moskva River (north) and the Vodootvodny Canal (south). The square is bounded by Bolotnaya Embankment of the canal to the south, by Serafimovicha Street and the House on the Embankment to the west, and by Bolotnaya Street to the north and to the east. The square had the name of Repin Square, commemorating Russian artist Ilya Repin, between 1962 and 1994. The square is built as a pedestrian open space.