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      GES-2, Krasny Oktyabr and Garage: the big culture axis

      ⏱ 7 h🚶 3.4 km🍽 2📍 10 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      The same route from GES-2 over the Patriarshy Bridge to the New Tretyakov, but with 17th-century chambers, a fish lunch at Krasny Oktyabr and a finale at Garage in Gorky Park.

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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.
        Free entry, exhibitions and a birch grove by the building
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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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      3. 2
        ☕️ Khleb-2 bakery and Ostanovka café at GES-2
        Болотная наб., 15
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        A bakery and café in the building
        🍴 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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      5. 3
        🌅 Patriarshy Bridge
        A pedestrian bridge over the Moskva River from the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour to Bersenevskaya Embankment.
        The best view of the Kremlin and the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
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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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        🏛 Averky Kirillov Chambers
        Берсеневская наб., 18–20–22
        A 17th-century chamber house of a Duma clerk, with an ornate window frame and the Church of St Nicholas on Bersenevka: pre-Petrine Moscow across from the Kremlin.
        Go down from the bridge on the left: patterned 17th-century chambers and the Church of St Nicholas on Bersenevka — the courtyard is open in the daytime
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        Averky Kirillov Chambers
        © Ludvig14 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Averky Kirillov Chambers
        © Aniacra · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The chambers took on their current look in 1656–1657 under Duma clerk Averky Kirillov.
        • The plot used to belong to Ivan Bersen-Beklemishev, executed in 1525.
        • In 1703–1711 the clerk A. F. Kurbatov, who built the Kremlin Arsenal, added an extension in the Petrine taste with volutes and a little "terem" tower.
        • The Church of St Nicholas on Bersenevka used to be connected to the chambers by a covered passage.
        • From 1868 to 1923 the Moscow Archaeological Society was housed here.
        • In February 2026, restoration work here uncovered a hoard of 20,000 silver coins from the 16th–17th centuries.
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        🚶 Krasny Oktyabr Island
        The tip of Bolotny Island, with the buildings of a former chocolate factory that now house bars, offices and exhibitions.
        The red-brick buildings of the former factory
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        Krasny Oktyabr Island
        © Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Krasny Oktyabr Island
        © GAlexandrova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The island appeared in the 1780s, when the Vodootvodny Canal was dug, cutting part of Zamoskvorechye off from the bank.
        • The Einem confectionery company dates its history from 1849, and construction of the factory on Bersenevskaya Embankment began in 1889.
        • After the revolution the factory was nationalised, and in 1922 it was renamed Krasny Oktyabr (Red October).
        • In 2007 production was moved to the Babayevsky factory, and the workshops were taken over by offices, exhibition halls, clubs and restaurants.
        • Nearby on the island are the 17th-century Averky Kirillov Chambers and Boris Iofan's House on the Embankment of 1931.
        • Patriarshy Bridge, which links the island to the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, opened in 2004.
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      11. 6
        🍽 Magadan restaurant at Red October
        Берсеневский пер., 3/10, стр. 8
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        Lunch on the island: Magadan shrimp and Kamchatka crab
        🍴 A fish restaurant with Far Eastern seafood in the Red October buildings. Try: the signature Magadan shrimp, Kamchatka crab, oysters.
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      13. 7
        🖼 New Tretyakov Gallery
        Крымский Вал, 10
        🎟 ticket
        The building on Krymsky Val with 20th-century Russian art, from the avant-garde to socialist realism and the Thaw.
        Malevich, Kandinsky, Deineka
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        New Tretyakov Gallery
        © Sergey A. Demidov · CC BY 4.0
        • Kazimir Malevich's Black Square of 1915 is kept here.
        • The permanent exhibition covers 20th-century art: Kandinsky, Chagall, Goncharova, Larionov, Petrov-Vodkin, Deineka.
        • Among the main works is Kandinsky's Composition VII of 1913, one of his largest paintings.
        • The building on Krymsky Val was built from 1965 to 1985 in the Soviet modernist style.
        • Next door is Muzeon Park, where Soviet monuments taken down after 1991 were brought, including Dzerzhinsky from Lubyanka.
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        🌳 Muzeon Art Park
        A sculpture park on the embankment by Krymsky Bridge: Soviet monuments taken off their pedestals, and contemporary sculpture.
        Take a breath in the sculpture park
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        Muzeon Art Park
        © sailko · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Muzeon Art Park
        © Юрий Д.К. · CC BY 4.0
        • The park was founded on 24 January 1992, after Soviet monuments were being taken down in central Moscow.
        • The 11-tonne Dzerzhinsky monument, removed from Lubyanka on 22 August 1991, has stood here ever since.
        • The collection includes hundreds of sculptures, from Soviet leaders to contemporary art.
        • Here you will find Sergey Merkurov's Stalin in pink granite and Vera Mukhina's We Demand Peace (1950).
        • Since 1995 Muzeon has hosted symposia of wood and stone sculptors.
        • Since October 2015 Muzeon has been part of Gorky Park.
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        🌅 Krymsky Bridge
        A 1938 steel suspension bridge with openwork pylons, linking Gorky Park and Ostozhenka.
        Climb to the pedestrian part of the bridge — a view of the Moskva River and Peter the Great, then go down into Gorky Park
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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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      19. 10
        🖼 Garage Museum of Contemporary Art
        🎟 ticket · the park around it is free
        A contemporary art museum in the former Vremena Goda restaurant of 1968, converted into a gallery.
        The finale at Koolhaas’s Garage (daily 11–22); the museum café on the ground floor is good for dinner or coffee
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        Garage Museum of Contemporary Art
        © Garage Museum of Contemporary Art · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Garage Museum of Contemporary Art
        © Sergey Norin from Moscow, Russia · CC BY 2.0
        • The museum was founded in 2008 by Dasha Zhukova and Roman Abramovich, and takes its name from its first address, Melnikov and Shukhov's Bakhmetevsky Bus Garage.
        • At the opening on 16 September 2008, Amy Winehouse gave a private concert.
        • In 2012 Garage operated in the park in a temporary pavilion by the Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, made of six-metre paper tubes.
        • The present building opened on 12 June 2015; the Vremena Goda restaurant was designed by Igor Vinogradsky and Igor Pyatkin.
        • During the reconstruction OMA kept the mosaic of a red-haired girl in foliage, which became one of the museum's symbols.
        • It has hosted retrospectives of Mark Rothko, Louise Bourgeois and Marina Abramović, as well as Yayoi Kusama's first exhibitions in Russia.
        • The museum has a library of contemporary art, opened in 2014 as the first public one in Russia.

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