Wow, that's really symmetrical. How and when was this approach instigated? It seems very well organised.. Not at all like your average chaotic city growing in bursts over hundreds of years, burns down and is rebuilt..

I have visited two other Russian speaking cities that also felt very "planned" St Petersburg and Minsk. Minsk was rebuilt after the war, with central planning guiding the process, so the explanation is simple. I seem to remember hearing that central St Petersburg was built in one go, a few hundred years ago, 18th or 19th century....

I had no idea Moscow was yet another seemingly well planned out city - I thought it was an old medieval city that had grown chaotically, in a random way, like for example London.
It looks like exactly the "Roman" layout even though the Romans never made it to Moscow as far as I am aware (nobody ever does, lol...)