GES-2, Krymskaya Embankment and Crimean Bridge

⏱ 55 min🚶 2 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

🐢 A little — under 3 km

Warm up in the house of culture, walk along the embankment's wavy paths and climb onto the bridge to the illuminated pylons with a view of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.

🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art⏱ An hour or so

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✨ 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: the house of culture is open until 22:00, free entry, with a café inside
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© Юрий Д.К. · CC BY 4.0
© 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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🚶 Krymskaya Embankment
A pedestrian embankment between Muzeon and Krymsky Bridge: wavy paths, benches by the water and a view of the Moskva River and the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.
Walk along the river on the wavy paths to Crimean Bridge — that way you bypass noisy Yakimanskaya Embankment
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© Юрий Д.К. · CC BY 4.0
© Sergey Norin from Moscow, Russia · CC BY 2.0
© Sergey Norin from Moscow, Russia · CC BY 2.0
- The embankment was made pedestrian in 2013 to a design by the Wowhaus studio; before that a road ran here.
- The paths are deliberately laid in smooth waves, with hills of lawn and trees between them.
- By the building on Krymsky Val that houses the New Tretyakov Gallery, an open-air art market has long operated: artists display and sell paintings.
- From the embankment you can see Krymsky Bridge, the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour and Krasny Oktyabr on Bolotny Island.
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🌅 Krymsky Bridge
A 1938 steel suspension bridge with openwork pylons, linking Gorky Park and Ostozhenka.
Climb onto the bridge by the stairs from the embankment: above the river are the illuminated pylons, and upstream the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
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© 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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🍽 Syrovarnya in Gorky Park
ул. Крымский Вал, 9, стр. 1
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Dinner by the main entrance of Gorky Park: Monday to Wednesday and Sunday until 23:00, Thursday to Saturday until midnight
🍴 A restaurant with its own cheese dairy at the entrance to Gorky Park. What to order: pizza with mortadella and stracciatella, burrata salad, cheeks with mashed potatoes, currant fruit drink (mors).