Kotly
Kotly, also known as
Upper and
Lower Kotly (
Russian:
Котлы,
'ерхние и
Нижние Котлы) is a locality in the south of
Moscow on the right bank of the
Moskva River.
The name
Kotly (literally means
Boilers) comes from two extinct
villages. The locality has been existing since the late
14th century under the name of
Kotyol (sing. for Boiler), a village on the
Kotlovka River. In
1606, the armies of
Ivan Bolotnikov and
Vasily Shuisky collided near Kotly with the ensuing defeat of the former. In the
17th century, there used to be two villages named
Verkhniye Kotly (Upper Kotly) to the south and
Nizhniye Kotly (Lower Kotly) to the north. The latter was build on the spot of the ancient settlement of Kotyol.
Kotly was turned into a country house area in the mid-
19th century. In
1892-
1904, a famous
Russian painter Vasili Vereshchagin lived in the Upper Kotly. In the
1930s, Kotly was engulfed by Moscow and turned into a residential area. Varshavskoye highway is the main street in Kotly.
