German Quarter, also known as the Kukuy Quarter (Russian: Неме́цкая слобода́, Nemetskaya sloboda) was a neighborhood in the northeast of Moscow, located on the right bank of the Yauza River east of Kukuy Creek (hence, the Kukuy Quarter, or слобода Кукуй), within present-day Basmanny District of Moscow.
Its boundaries were defined by present-day Dobroslobodskaya Street and Bolshoy Demidovsky Lane (west, following the track of Kukuy creek), Spartakovskaya Street (north) and Yauza River (south and east). Kukuy formed a wide pond west of present-day Elizavetinsky lane, on site of present-day Sokol stadium of Moscow State Technical University, which occupies the southern half of former German settlement.
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