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      Embankments: from Novodevichy to Zaryadye

      ⏱ 5 h 30 min🚶 9 km🍽 1📍 8 stops
      🏃 A lot — over 7 km

      A long route along the Moskva River across the city's most beautiful bridges.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature
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      1. 1
        🏛 Novodevichy Convent
        A 16th–17th-century convent with crenellated walls, the Smolensk Cathedral and a tall bell tower, a UNESCO site.
        Start at the convent
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        Novodevichy Convent
        © Vyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Novodevichy Convent
        © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Novodevichy Convent
        © Anton Zelenov · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The convent was founded in 1524 by Vasily III in fulfilment of a vow made for the capture of Smolensk in 1514.
        • In 2004 the ensemble was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list.
        • The bell tower of 1690, in the Moscow Baroque style, is one of the tallest in Moscow, at about 72 m.
        • In 1689 Peter I imprisoned Tsarevna Sophia here; she was later tonsured under the name Susanna.
        • In 1812 the retreating French tried to blow up the convent; according to legend, the nuns put out the fuses.
        • The convent was returned to the Church in 2010; large-scale restoration went on for about ten years from 2014.
        • Beyond the wall lies Novodevichy Cemetery, where Chekhov, Gogol and Bulgakov are buried.
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      3. 2
        🚶 Frunzenskaya Embankment
        A long embankment with Stalinist buildings and a wide pavement along the Moskva River.
        A quiet embankment with a view of Neskuchny Garden
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        Frunzenskaya Embankment
        © Юрий Д.К. · CC BY 4.0
        Frunzenskaya Embankment
        © Alexxx1979 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The embankment used to be called Khamovnicheskaya; it most likely received Frunze's name in 1936.
        • The roadway along the river appeared after the iron Krymsky Bridge was built in 1872, and until the 1930s the buildings were single-storey.
        • The banks were faced with granite in 1936–1937.
        • Building no. 22 is the General Staff of the Ground Forces, built in 1938–1951 with the participation of Lev Rudnev.
        • Lazar Kaganovich lived at no. 50, and the actors Georgy Burkov (no. 32) and Pyotr Glebov (nos. 38–44) lived in other buildings on the embankment.
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      5. 3
        🌳 Gorky Park
        🚪 entrance by Andreevsky Bridge
        A big central park along the Moskva River with fountains, lawns, cafés, rentals and a skating rink in winter.
        Pushkinskaya Embankment opposite
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        Gorky Park
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        Gorky Park
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        • The park opened on 12 August 1928 on the site of the 1923 All-Russian Agricultural Exhibition, whose layout was designed by Konstantin Melnikov.
        • The park received Maxim Gorky's name in 1932.
        • On its very first day the park was visited by more than 100,000 people.
        • The main entrance arch was built in 1955 to a design by the architect Georgy Shchuko.
        • In the 1930s the park had an amusement parachute tower.
        • In spring 1943 captured German equipment was displayed here, including the first Tiger tank taken in working order.
        • From 1993 to 2014 a 50-tonne mock-up of the Buran spacecraft stood in the park.
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      7. 4
        🌅 Krymsky Bridge
        A 1938 steel suspension bridge with openwork pylons, linking Gorky Park and Ostozhenka.
        The only suspension bridge in the centre
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        Krymsky Bridge
        © Vyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The bridge was built in 1938 to a design by architect Alexander Vlasov and engineer Boris Konstantinov.
        • The name is linked to the Crimean Ford and the courtyard where envoys from the Crimean Khanate stayed in the 16th–17th centuries.
        • Its predecessor was an iron bridge of 1873 with truss walls and pseudo-Gothic turrets at the approaches.
        • In 1936 the old bridge was moved 50 m downstream, and trams ran over it while the new one was built alongside.
        • A tram ran across Krymsky Bridge until 1957.
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      9. 5
        ✨ GES-2 House of Culture
        Болотная наб., 15
        🎟 partly ticketed · the building is free with registration, exhibitions require a ticket
        A former power station across from the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, rebuilt by Renzo Piano into an open house of culture with exhibitions and cafés.
        Step in to warm up and see the exhibitions
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        GES-2 House of Culture
        © Юрий Д.К. · CC BY 4.0
        GES-2 House of Culture
        © Юрий Д.К. · CC BY 4.0
        • The power station was built in 1905–1907, designed by Vasily Bashkirov, to power the Moscow tram.
        • The reconstruction was carried out by the studio of Italian architect Renzo Piano, who also designed the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
        • The House of Culture opened in December 2021; it was created by Leonid Mikhelson's V–A–C Foundation.
        • Four steel chimneys about 70 metres tall serve as air intakes, bringing fresh air into the building.
        • At the opening, Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson spent months re-filming the series Santa Barbara here, live for visitors.
        • Inside there is a library, a cinema, a concert hall and open workshops.
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      11. 6
        ☕️ Khleb-2 bakery and Ostanovka café at GES-2
        Болотная наб., 15
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        Lunch
        🍴 After the 2026 relaunch, the Khleb-2 bakery (9:00–21:00), the Ostanovka café (11:00–22:00) and, on weekdays, the Stolovaya canteen (11:00–18:00) are open again. What to order: sourdough bread, croissants and coffee at the bakery, and lunch at the canteen on weekdays. Check the GES-2 website before you go to see whether the cafés are open.
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      13. 7
        🌅 Patriarshy Bridge
        A pedestrian bridge over the Moskva River from the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour to Bersenevskaya Embankment.
        A view of the Kremlin
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        Patriarshy Bridge
        © Andrey Korzun · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The pedestrian bridge opened in September 2004; construction began in 2002.
        • The bridge is 203 m long and crosses the Moskva River; in 2007 it was extended over Bolotny Island and the Vodootvodny Canal.
        • The project was designed by architect Mikhail Posokhin, and Zurab Tsereteli took part in the decoration.
        • It is styled after 19th-century bridges, with arches, wrought-iron railings and lamps.
        • Over Bolotny Island the bridge is raised 10 m, and over the main channel 12.5 m.
        • In the evening the bridge is lit by more than 200 lamps and 500 floodlights.
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      15. 8
        🌳 Zaryadye Park
        🎟 partly ticketed · the park is free; the media centre and ice cave are ticketed
        A park by the Kremlin walls with landscapes of Russia's different zones, hills, underground pavilions and a concert hall.
        The finale on the Floating Bridge
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        Zaryadye Park
        © GAlexandrova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Zaryadye Park
        © Alina Vozna · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The park opened on 9 September 2017, City Day, on the site of the Rossiya Hotel, which closed in 2006.
        • The Rossiya Hotel, opened in 1967, was at the time the largest in the world.
        • The project was created by a consortium led by the New York studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro, which won the 2013 competition.
        • Four Russian landscapes have been recreated over 13 hectares: tundra, steppe, forest and swamp.
        • The Floating Bridge juts out 70 m over the Moskva River and has no supports in the water.
        • Zaryadye Concert Hall opened on 8 September 2018: the main hall has about 1,500 seats, and the organ has 85 stops.
        • In 2018 Time magazine named Zaryadye one of the world's greatest places, and in 2019 the park won the jury's top prize at the MIPIM Awards in Cannes.

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