Preobrazhenskaya square. part 1. I have been living in Moscow for 13 years, but I still haven’t seen many of the city districts. Yesterday was my first journey to one of the eastern areas of the city, namely to the Preobrazhenskaya square. I had a certain aim - to see an art exhibition of one contemporary Russian science artist. It was an opening day. I took a tram at the eastern border of the city center and moved towards the north through new residential areas, squeezed between huge industrial zones and old cemeteries. Some of the Moscow districts look rather unfriendly and depressive, specially when the sky is overcast, and the roads are covered with puddles. Unique houses survived from the first half of the XX century were rarely arising on my tram track and looked like a rare avis. The Preobrazhenskaya square with its surroundings proved to be a little bit more humane, than the long way to it. History of this area dates back to the XVII century, however, there are no visual traces of that epoch in the contemporary city landscape. An old historical district with its low houses of bricks, churches, and large waste squares was destroyed in the 1960s and 70s and built up with rather featureless panel edifices. High malls of glass and new multi-storey housing built during last thirty years have finally encumbered the square. The exhibition I was looking for housed in a hall of an ex-Scientific institute which had cultivated radio technology and military technics. Its main buildings were constructed in the 1960s and represent a high example of Soviet Modernism in architecture. It is a high rectangular volume covered with glass. In 2014 Scientific institute moved to another building, while this one was occupied by artists’ studios, galleries, and sport sections. Accordance of old industrial zones to artists is rather common now. Unfortunately the building was not restored or at leased conserved and, thus, is being destroyed now.