🏛 Southern River Terminal (Yuzhny Rechnoy Vokzal)

пр-т Андропова, 11, корп. 2

A Soviet-modernist river terminal on Nagatinskaya Embankment, reopened after reconstruction in 2023.

The terminal moved here, to Nagatinskaya Embankment, in 1972 and worked from a temporary floating pier until 1985.
The Soviet-modernist building was built in 1985; the first sailing was the motor ship Pavel Yudin to Astrakhan.
In 2017 the city tried through the courts to demolish the building as an illegal construction, but in 2018 the court rejected the claim.
In 2021–2023 the terminal was effectively built anew: only one brick wall of the 1985 building remains, and it is shown inside.
The concrete figures of the five seas weighed about 3.5 tonnes each; copies made of fibreglass from 3D scans stand in their place today.
After the opening in April 2023, the first ship to call at the terminal was the Borodino.