long square - 330 meters, width 70 meters. On the square is located the place of execution, the monument to Minin and Pozharsky, the Mausoleum, near which the Necropolis and Kremlevskoy wall. it is believed that the Red square was formed in the nineties of the fifteenth century and was called "Torg" or "Fire", and the second half of the sixteenth century, "Krasnaya", which means beautiful.