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      ZILART in the evening: a grove, a new museum and dinner

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

      A new district on the site of the car plant after work: houses by different architects, Tyufeleva Grove at dusk, the ZILART museum open until 22:00 and ribs from the smokehouse opposite. The museum is closed on Monday.

      🌙 Evening🎨 Art✨ New places🏘 Off the centre
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        🚶 ZILART quarter
        A new residential quarter on the site of the ZIL plant, where the buildings were designed by various well-known architects.
        Start at Avtozavodskaya metro around 17:00, while it’s light: walk south through the block and notice how different the houses of neighbouring blocks are.
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        ZILART quarter
        © mos.ru · CC BY 4.0
        ZILART quarter
        © Retired electrician · CC0
        • The quarter's master plan was developed by the studio Project Meganom.
        • The buildings were designed by different studios: Sergei Skuratov, SPEECH, Evgeny Gerasimov and Partners, and the building with round windows by Tsimailo Lyashenko and Partners.
        • In 2016 the quarter's streets were named after avant-garde artists and Constructivists: Varvara Stepanova, Melnikov, Leonidov.
        • The first four buildings were handed over in late 2018.
        • On 1 December 2025 the Zilart museum and exhibition centre opened here, based on Andrei Molchanov's collection of more than 8,000 items.
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        🌳 Tyufeleva Roshcha Park
        🚪 entrance from Arkhitektora Leonidova Street
        A modern park on the site of the ZIL car plant, with sculpted terrain, a cascade of ponds, small bridges and viewing hills.
        Head to the grove for sunset: in late October the sun sets around 17:20. Climb the hills and walk along the cascade of ponds before dark.
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        Tyufeleva Roshcha Park
        © mos.ru · CC BY 4.0
        Tyufeleva Roshcha Park
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        • The 10-hectare park opened in late July 2018 on the site of ZIL's foundry shops.
        • It was designed by the American studio !Melk of Jerry van Eyck and Project Meganom; Van Eyck compared the park to Paris's La Villette.
        • During construction 250,000 cubic metres of soil were replaced.
        • The historic Tyufeleva Grove was a royal hunting ground: Alexei Mikhailovich, Peter I and Catherine II came here.
        • Nearby was Liza's Pond, named after Karamzin's novella Poor Liza (1792).
        • The grove disappeared after 1916, when construction of the AMO car plant, the future ZIL, began here.
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        🖼 ZILART Museum and Exhibition Centre
        бульвар Братьев Весниных, 3
        🎟 ticket
        A new contemporary art museum near Tyufeleva Roshcha, opened in December 2025: rotating exhibitions across several floors, open until late evening.
        The museum at the edge of the grove is open until 22:00 (closed on Monday), so after the walk there are a couple of hours for the exhibition. Tickets on the museum website.
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        • The museum opened on 1 December 2025 in a new district on the site of the ZIL plant.
        • The core of the collection is the private collection of Andrei Molchanov, founder of LSR Group, and his wife Elizaveta: more than 8,000 items gathered over 25 years.
        • The five-storey building is a glass-and-metal cube "wrapped" in a pattern of trapezoids; its total area is over 13,000 sq. m.
        • The transformable exhibition halls occupy floors two to five, and five-metre copper doors stand at their entrance.
        • A branch of Hermitage Moscow, designed by Hani Rashid, was once planned on this site, but the project was not realised.
        • The streets around the museum are named after avant-garde artists and constructivist architects: Vesnin Brothers Boulevard, and Rodchenko, Tatlin and Lissitzky streets.
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        🍽 Frank by Basta in Zilart
        бульвар Братьев Весниных, 2 (ЖК «Зиларт»)
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        Dinner on Bratyev Vesninykh Boulevard opposite the museum, open until 23:00: pork or beef ribs for two and potatoes with Parmesan.
        🍴 A meat restaurant and rib house with a grill and a smokehouse. Try: pork or beef ribs, slow-cooked beef, potatoes with Parmesan.

      ↩️ Getting back: ≈7 min on foot to ZIL station on the MCC (Moscow Central Circle)

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