Chertoryi River

The Chertoriy River Черторый is a small river of the Central Administrative District of Moscow, a left tributary of the Moscow River. Since the XIX century flows in the underground reservoir. In the XVI century, the stream was used to fill the moat, which ran along the walls of the White City The creek hydronim means a fast stream, which dug itself a bed - “as if damned dug”. Gully and deep holes were usually called black drains. Near Prechistensky Gate, the river flowed in a deep valley, this area has been known since the 14th century as the Chertolye. In the first half of the 17th century, the Chertolskaya settlement was located on the bank of a stream [5] [6] [7] [8].

At present, the length of a river with a temporary watercourse in the upper reaches is 3.3–3.5 km, and the length of a constant current is 1.4 km. The catchment area is 2.5 km². The source of Chertoriy was located in the Koziem bog, not far from the Patriarch's Pond. The river in the sewer flows south-east along Spiridonovka Street, turns south along Nikitinsky and Gogolevsky Boulevards. The mouth is located at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, south of the Patriarchal Bridge. The right tributary of the creek is the River Sivka  ..