Patriarshiye Ponds (Patriarch's Ponds, Russian: Патриаршие пруды), also known in common language as Patriks (Russian: Патрики), is an affluent residential area in downtown Presnensky District of Moscow, Russia. For the last 200 years, there has been only one pond, although, as the name of Tryokhprudny Pereulok (Трёхпрудный переулок, lit.