🌳 Borisovsky Pond

Борисовский пр.

A huge 17th-century pond — the former village of Borisovo of Boris Godunov, now with embankments and beaches.

The pond appeared around 1600, when the Tsar Boris dam was built by order of Boris Godunov.
It is Moscow's largest historic body of water: the water surface covers 75.55 hectares and the depth is 1.5–2.5 m.
In the cadastral books of 1627–1628 the pond is recorded as "the Sovereign's" — with a stone dam and a mill.
In the early 1970s an island was heaped up in the middle of the pond for the Kashirskoye Highway bridges, dividing it into the Shipilovsky and Borisovsky reaches.
The pond closes the cascade of the Tsaritsyno ponds and has been part of the Tsaritsyno nature-and-history park since 1998.

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