Seven hills of Moscow
The Seven hills of Moscow is a historic name of several elevated sections of terrain, on top of which Moscow was built.
The legend of Seven Hills has been known since the 16th century, when they began to actively develop the hilly terrain dissected by numerous rivers and ravines. Usually, the term Seven Hills refers to the Borovitsky Hill, the so-called Three Mountains, Tver Hill a.k.a. Strastnaya Gorka, Sretensky Hill a.k.a. Sukharevsky Hill, Tagansky Hill a.k.a. Shvivaya Gorka, Vvedenskiye Mountains a.k.a. Lefortovo Hill, and Vorobyovy Hills.
Besides the aforementioned hills, they sometimes include Krutitsy, Krasniy Hill, and Naprudniy Hill a.k.a. Sushchyovo.
