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      The Nagatinskaya floodplain at sunset and Dream Island

      ⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 3 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      Sunset on the floodplain embankment, the river terminal at dusk, and when it gets dark, the warm promenade of Dream Island and Georgian wine.

      🌙 Evening🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre
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        🌳 Nagatinskaya Poyma Park
        A large park on a peninsula in a bend of the Moskva River, with an embankment, lawns and sports grounds.
        From Tekhnopark metro straight to the river, 40 minutes before sunset (in late October around 17:20). Walk along the floodplain embankment while it’s light.
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        Nagatinskaya Poyma Park
        © mos.ru · CC BY 4.0
        • The peninsula appeared in 1968, when a 3.5 km canal was dug to straighten the Moskva River.
        • To drain the marshy floodplain, more than 1 million cubic metres of soil were piled up here.
        • The name comes from the village of Nagatino; by one version, from the many gats (log roads over marsh).
        • In 1977 the 60th Anniversary of October Park was laid out here, created by workers of the ZIL plant and local residents.
        • In 2008 there were plans to build Norman Foster's 450-metre skyscraper, Crystal Island, here; the project was not realised.
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        🏛 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 modernist terminal at dusk, when the embankment lamps come on. The navigation season ends by late autumn, so we look at the terminal from outside.
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        Southern River Terminal (Yuzhny Rechnoy Vokzal)
        © Retired electrician · CC0
        Southern River Terminal (Yuzhny Rechnoy Vokzal)
        © MBH · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Southern River Terminal (Yuzhny Rechnoy Vokzal)
        © Brateevsky · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • 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.
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        ✨ Ostrov Mechty (Dream Island) amusement park
        🎟 partly ticketed · the promenade and the landscape park are free, rides require a ticket
        A large indoor amusement park on the Nagatinskaya Poyma, with themed zones based on cartoons.
        Come once it’s dark, when the facade with its towers is lit. The covered city promenade is open until 22:00, free entry, rides by ticket.
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        Ostrov Mechty (Dream Island) amusement park
        © MBH · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Ostrov Mechty (Dream Island) amusement park
        © mos.ru · CC BY 4.0
        • The park opened on 29 February 2020; construction began on 17 March 2016 on the site of the 60th Anniversary of October Park.
        • The main facade is styled as a fairy-tale castle, and the central tower is 75 m tall.
        • Moscow Square is covered by an 8,000 m² glass dome, 25 m high, the largest in Europe.
        • The project was designed by the British studios Cunningham Architects and Chapman Taylor, with landscaping by Italy's Land Milano.
        • The themed zones were originally to feature characters from Soyuzmultfilm, but this was dropped.
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        🍸 Megobari Georgian wine bar
        пр-т Андропова, 1, 1 этаж («Остров мечты»)
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        The finale on the 1st floor of the promenade, open until 23:00: a glass of Saperavi and Imeretian khachapuri.
        🍴 A Georgian wine bar on Dream Island: more than 35 Georgian wines and snacks to go with them. Try: a glass of Saperavi or Rkatsiteli, Imeretian khachapuri, Georgian grissini.

      ↩️ Getting back: ≈10 min on foot from Dream Island to Tekhnopark metro

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