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      The Yauza at night: skyscraper to Andronikov Monastery

      ⏱ 3 h🚶 3.4 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      Not the most showy, but very Moscow evening walk: the lit skyscraper on Kotelnicheskaya, the Yauza embankments, the white walls of Andronikov Monastery in lights and dinner at Winzavod.

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        🏛 Kotelnicheskaya Embankment skyscraper
        A residential Stalinist skyscraper at the confluence of the Yauza and the Moskva River, 176 m tall, with three wings and a spire.
        Start at Taganskaya or Kitay-Gorod metro at dusk: walk around the skyscraper on the embankment side — the spire and tiers of the tower light up with the dark.
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        Kotelnicheskaya Embankment skyscraper
        © Ludvig14 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Kotelnicheskaya Embankment skyscraper
        © Safa.daneshvar · CC BY 4.0
        • The first block along Kotelnicheskaya Embankment was built as early as 1938–1940, and the high-rise part in 1948–1952.
        • The authors were Dmitry Chechulin and Andrei Rostkovsky; Chechulin, after falling out of favour, also received a flat in this building.
        • Originally the building had 540 flats.
        • Faina Ranevskaya, Galina Ulanova, Alexander Tvardovsky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Vasily Aksyonov lived here.
        • The Galina Ulanova apartment museum, opened in 2004, operates in the building.
        • The cinema in the building received the name Illyuzion in 1966 and began showing films from the State Film Fund.
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        🚶 Yauza Embankment
        The embankment of the small Yauza River, with walking paths, small bridges and views of old factory buildings.
        Up the Yauza along Nikoloyamskaya Embankment: lamps along the water, old factory buildings and little bridges. The pavement runs along the road — noisy, but well lit.
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        Yauza Embankment
        © Александр Спиридонов · CC BY 3.0
        Yauza Embankment
        © Retired electrician · CC0
        • The Yauza is the largest tributary of the Moskva River within the capital: it is 48 km long, 27.6 km of it in the city.
        • The river is first mentioned in a chronicle under the year 1156 as the Auza.
        • The embankments of the navigable stretch were mostly built by 1940; the Syromyatnichesky Lock appeared 3 km from the mouth at the same time.
        • There are 33 pedestrian bridges across the Yauza.
        • Beyond Lefortovo Bridge, on the right bank, stands the Tupolev design bureau building, which once housed the "Tupolev sharashka" (prison design bureau).
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        🖼 Andronikov Monastery and the Rublev Museum
        🎟 partly ticketed · the monastery grounds are free, the museum exhibition requires a ticket
        A 14th-century monastery above the Yauza behind white walls, where, according to tradition, Andrei Rublev lived and was buried.
        The museum and grounds are closed in the evening, so we look from outside: the white walls and towers on the Andronyevsky Proyezd side are lit with the dark. The best view is from Andronyevskaya Square and from the bridge over the Yauza.
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        Andronikov Monastery and the Rublev Museum
        © Mike1979 Russia · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Andronikov Monastery and the Rublev Museum
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        Andronikov Monastery and the Rublev Museum
        © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The monastery was founded in 1357 by Metropolitan Alexius and named after its first abbot, Andronik, a disciple of Sergius of Radonezh.
        • According to the saint's life, Alexius vowed to build a church when he was caught in a storm on the way to Constantinople.
        • The white-stone Cathedral of the Saviour of 1420–1427 is the oldest surviving church in Moscow.
        • Fragments of murals from about 1428 by Andrei Rublev, a monk of this monastery, survive in the cathedral.
        • In 1653 Archpriest Avvakum was held here under guard.
        • After the monastery was closed in 1918, one of the first Cheka concentration camps operated on its grounds until 1922.
        • The monastery's bell tower, the second tallest in Moscow after Ivan the Great, was demolished in 1929–1932.
        • The Rublev Museum was officially opened in 1960, for the 600th anniversary of the icon painter.
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        ☕️ Tsurtsum café at Winzavod
        4-й Сыромятнический пер., 1/8, стр. 6 (Винзавод, подъезд 6)
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        Dinner in the courtyard of Winzavod: the café is open until 23:00. The galleries close around 20:00 — if you want to look in, start the route earlier.
        🍴 A long-standing café at Winzavod, open daily 10:00–23:00, with a business lunch on weekdays. What to order: borscht with salo and Borodino bread, pike cutlets with mashed potatoes, shakshuka, syrniki (cottage cheese pancakes).

      ↩️ Getting back: Kurskaya or Chkalovskaya metro — 7–10 minutes from Winzavod

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