On Poklonnaya Gora sometimes ask: "What above - Vorobyovy Gory or Poklonnaya Gora?"We watch a topographic map of Moscow 1987. Height of Vorobyovy Gory 191,2. Height of Poklonnaya Gora 170,5. Now it is possible to say safely that Vorobyovy Gory are 20 m higher. Still I meet data that Vorobyovy Gory - the highest point of Moscow. The highest is in the south of the capital, about station of m Tyoply Stan. Closer to MKAD the geodetic sign with mark 254,6 is established. He, but not a boulder established on 150 m to the northeast at the beginning of Novoyasenevsky Avenue specifies the highest point. Are often sure that Poklonnaya Gora is so called, because here:"In vain Napoleon waited,Last happiness intoxicated,Moscow kneelingWith keys of the old Kremlin" Actually in Russia of Bow mountains was much. Is near Suzdal, in Pskov, in St. Petersburg... In Moscow there were some bow mountains - on the Yaroslavl, Kaluga, Serpukhov, Mozhaisk roads. Perhaps, high hills were called so as earlier, approaching the capital, the traveler from height, from far away, saw gold domes of the Moscow temples. And from here it bowed to Moscow. And perhaps the name comes from that here with bow, with bread salt, welcomed foreign guests who came to us from the West. There is still a version that earlier here at entry into the city took "bows", some kind of tax.
