🌅 Sparrow Hills viewpoint (Vorobyovy Gory)

A platform on the high right bank with a panorama of the bend of the Moskva River, Luzhniki and the city centre.

The viewing platform was built in 1948 to a design by the architect Vitaly Dolganov.
From 1935 to 1999 the hills were officially called the Lenin Hills.
The slope rises up to 80 m above the river, a ledge of the Teplostanskaya Upland.
The second-to-last chapter of The Master and Margarita is called "On the Sparrow Hills".
Downstream from the platform stands a memorial marking the oath of Herzen and Ogarev.
The Moscow State University main building behind the platform is 240 m with its spire, and the central block has 36 floors.

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