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      Eurasia Square and the City towers from the embankment

      ⏱ 1 h 5 min🚶 2 km🍽 1📍 3 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      From Kiyevsky Station with a coffee to go to Taras Shevchenko Embankment, from where the Moscow City towers are in full view across the river.

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        🏛 Eurasia Square (formerly Europe Square)
        The square by Kievsky Station (until July 2024 called Europe Square) with a fountain, The Abduction of Europa, made of steel rods, and a view of the river.
        Start at Kiyevsky Station
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        Eurasia Square (formerly Europe Square)
        © Retired electrician · CC0
        • Since 24 July 2024 the square has officially been called Eurasia Square.
        • The square was built in 2001–2002 as part of a Russian-Belgian project, designed by architect Yuri Platonov.
        • The fountain sculpture The Abduction of Europa was devised by Belgian sculptor Olivier Strebelle: the composition is 11 m high and the basin is 50 m in diameter.
        • The fountain's lighting is made up of 4,000 LED lamps.
        • The square has 48 columns with flags; the flags of European countries were taken down in March 2023.
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        ☕️ Drinkit coffee shop on Ukrainsky Boulevard
        Украинский б-р, 6
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        Coffee to go before the walk: Drinkit is 5 minutes from the square, and it's handy to order in advance in the app
        🍴 A Drinkit chain coffee shop five minutes from the Ukraina Hotel: coffee and a quick snack. Try: a cappuccino or raf, a sandwich, pastries.
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        🚶 Taras Shevchenko Embankment
        The embankment opposite Moscow City, with a wide promenade, piers and a view of the skyscrapers across the river.
        A view of the towers from the river; Bagration Bridge is closed until the end of 2030, so go back toward Kiyevskaya
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        Taras Shevchenko Embankment
        © Gennady Grachev from Moscow, Russia · CC BY 2.0
        Taras Shevchenko Embankment
        © Gennady Grachev from Moscow, Russia · CC BY 2.0
        • The embankment received Taras Shevchenko's name in 1961, for the centenary of his death; it was extended to Kievskaya Street at the same time.
        • In 1964 a monument to Shevchenko was placed in the small park in front of the Hotel Ukraina.
        • The Hotel Ukraina is a Stalinist skyscraper of 1950–1957 by architects Arkady Mordvinov and Vyacheslav Oltarzhevsky.
        • Minister Nikolai Baibakov and actor Valentin Gaft lived in the Oil Workers' House (no. 1/2, 1938–1953).

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