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      All day with kids: Moscow for little ones

      ⏱ 9 h 30 min🚶 3 km + 🚕🍽 2📍 8 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      A day for children under five: the zoo in the morning, a nap in the stroller by Patriarch's Ponds, Detsky Mir and dinner at a restaurant with a play area by the Apothecary Garden.

      👶 With kids
      👶 under 3, 3–6 years · ✓ stroller-friendly

      The two zoo territories are linked by a pedestrian bridge with ramps. All transfers by taxi. The Apothecary Garden has gravel paths, and strollers can go into the greenhouse.

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      1. 1
        ✨ Moscow Zoo
        Б. Грузинская ул., 1
        🎟 ticket
        Russia's oldest zoo, from 1864, on two sites linked by a pedestrian bridge over the street.
        Come at opening, before the queues; buy tickets online, free under 3
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        Moscow Zoo
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        Moscow Zoo
        © AlixSaz · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The zoo was opened by the Imperial Russian Acclimatisation Society on 31 January (12 February) 1864; one of the main initiators was Professor Anatoly Bogdanov.
        • The first elephant, Mavluk, was presented to the zoo by Alexander II in the second half of the 1860s.
        • In winter 1941 only one brown bear, Zoyka, was left on Zverinyi Island; she dug her own den.
        • The pedestrian bridge over Bolshaya Gruzinskaya Street, linking the two sites, was built by 1997.
        • The zoo's symbol since 1987 has been the Pallas's cat, the manul.
        • In 2019 the giant pandas Ru Yi and Ding Ding arrived from China, and in 2023 they had Katyusha, the first giant panda born in Russia.
      2. 🚶 on foot
      3. 2
        ✨ Children's Zoo at the Moscow Zoo
        Б. Грузинская ул., 8 (вход с Садовой-Кудринской)
        🎟 ticket · included with the zoo entrance ticket
        A separate zone of the zoo for little ones with fairy-tale buildings, where you can see the animals up close.
        Children's zoo on the new territory, with its own entrance from Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya: farm animals and playgrounds, one ticket shared with the zoo
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        • The renovated Children's Zoo opened on 31 August 2019 after a two-year reconstruction.
        • The area doubled and the number of animals grew fivefold, to more than 200.
        • Rare Poitou donkeys, Border Leicester sheep and four-horned sheep live here.
        • The petting area has shelters: the animals come out to visitors only when they want to.
      4. 🚶 on foot
      5. 3
        ☕️ Coffeemania on Kudrinskaya Square
        Кудринская пл., 46/54, стр. 1
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        Lunch: kids' menu and high chairs, across the road from the zoo
        🍴 A 24-hour Coffeemania on Kudrinskaya Square, opposite the high-rise. What to order: crab cakes with wild rice, a croissant, the house coffee, and in summer a watermelon salad with mozzarella.
      6. 🚶 on foot
      7. 4
        🌳 Patriarch's Ponds (Patriarshiye Prudy)
        A square pond surrounded by old lime trees and benches, a calm park amid quiet lanes and the setting of The Master and Margarita.
        Nap time: the baby sleeps in the stroller while the adults stroll around the pond; there's a playground on the shore
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        Patriarch's Ponds (Patriarshiye Prudy)
        © Dimа · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Patriarch's Ponds (Patriarshiye Prudy)
        © Shuvaev · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Patriarch's Ponds (Patriarshiye Prudy)
        © Gennady Grachev from Moscow, Russia · CC BY 2.0
        • In 1683 Patriarch Joachim ordered the local Goat Marsh drained and three fish ponds dug.
        • After the fire of 1812 two ponds were filled in and one remained; Trekhprudny Lane recalls the three.
        • From 1932 to 1992 the pond was officially called Pionersky ("Pioneer").
        • The 1976 Krylov monument (sculptors Andrei Drevin and Daniel Mitlyansky) is surrounded by scenes from 12 fables.
        • The stone pavilion by the water was built in 1986 on the site of a wooden one from 1938.
        • The Master and Margarita begins here; the sign banning talking to strangers refers to the novel's first chapter.
        • A skating rink has been flooded on the pond since 1900, with an area of about 12,000 m².
      8. 🚕 taxi, about 10 min along the boulevards to Teatralny Proezd
      9. 5
        ✨ Central Children's Store on Lubyanka (Detsky Mir)
        🎟 partly ticketed · the store is free to enter, the rooftop viewing platform requires a ticket
        The country's largest children's store, in a 1957 building with an atrium and a rooftop viewing platform.
        Toys, a giant clock in the atrium and a rooftop viewpoint
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        Central Children's Store on Lubyanka (Detsky Mir)
        © Юрий Д.К. · CC BY 4.0
        Central Children's Store on Lubyanka (Detsky Mir)
        © A.Savin · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The building was built in 1953–1957 to a design by Alexey Dushkin on the site of the demolished Lubyansky Passage, using its foundations and basements.
        • The department store opened on 6 June 1957 and was the first building in the USSR to install escalators.
        • Pavel Korin's mosaic panels were never made: the project was simplified during the fight against "excesses".
        • During the 2008–2015 reconstruction a seven-story atrium replaced the three-story one; eight bronze floor lamps and the marble staircases remain from the old interior.
        • The atrium clock's mechanism weighs 4.5 tonnes and has 5,000 parts, and its pendulum is 13 meters long; the clock was made by the Petrodvorets Watch Factory.
        • The carousel with horses that stood for many years in the old Detsky Mir returned to the main atrium in 2021.
        • Under the roof is the Museum of Childhood, with about a thousand exhibits, including Soviet toys.
      10. 🚶 on foot
      11. 6
        🏛 Bolshoi Theatre
        The country's main opera and ballet theatre, with an eight-column portico and Apollo's quadriga above the entrance.
        A square with a fountain by the Bolshoi — run around and feed the pigeons
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        Bolshoi Theatre
        © Юрий Д.К. · CC BY 4.0
        • The theatre's founding day is considered to be 28 March 1776, when Prince Pyotr Urusov received from Catherine II the right to maintain theatrical performances.
        • The current building, designed by Osip Bove, opened on 18 January 1825 with the prologue The Triumph of the Muses.
        • After the fire of 1853 only the walls and colonnade survived; Albert Cavos rebuilt the theatre in three years, and it reopened on 20 August 1856.
        • The bronze quadriga of Apollo by Pyotr Klodt replaced the earlier alabaster sculpture after the fire of 1853.
        • The famous golden brocade curtain, designed by Fyodor Fyodorovsky, appeared in 1955.
        • The Historic Stage was reconstructed from 2005 to 2011 and reopened on 28 October 2011.
        • From October 1941 to July 1943 the theatre worked in evacuation in Kuibyshev.
      12. 🚕 taxi, about 10 min along Neglinnaya and Sretenka to Prospekt Mira
      13. 7
        🌳 Apothecaries' Garden (Aptekarsky Ogorod)
        пр-т Мира, 26, стр. 1
        🚪 entrance from Prospekt Mira
        🎟 ticket
        Russia's oldest botanical garden, founded under Peter I, with a pond, greenhouses and centuries-old trees.
        Palm greenhouse — warm in any weather; tickets on the website
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        Apothecaries' Garden (Aptekarsky Ogorod)
        © MBH · CC BY 4.0
        • The garden was founded in 1706, when the state garden of medicinal plants was moved here from beneath the Kremlin walls.
        • Peter I planted a spruce, a fir and a larch here himself; according to legend, one larch survives to this day.
        • The first director in 1735–1742 was the botanist Traugott Gerber, after whom the gerbera flower is named.
        • In 1805 Moscow University bought the garden for 11,000 silver roubles.
        • The Palm Greenhouse was built in 1891.
        • The white willow growing here is considered the oldest tree in central Moscow.
      14. 🚶 on foot
      15. 8
        🍽 Ribambelle Family Restaurant · 🧸 play area
        Ботанический пер., 5 (у Аптекарского огорода)
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        Dinner: a play town with entertainers while the adults eat; book at weekends
        🍴 A restaurant-club for families with a big play town, entertainers and workshops for kids. What to order: salmon tartare, duck leg confit.

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