Moscow "Artist Colony" is an architectural ensemble the foundation of which was initiated by writer M.Gorky and the artist and critic I.E.Grabar in the 1930-s in the suburbs of the city (at that time) in the Verkhnaya Maslovka Street and Petrovsko-Razumovskaya Avenue. The general development plan originally included a complex of buildings in the form of a "ship of arts" in extensive territory near the stadium "Dynamo".