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      Karamyshevskaya Embankment: the lock and Godunov's church

      ⏱ 1 h 5 min🚶 2.2 km🍽 0📍 3 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      A short walk along the Moskva River from Mnyovniki station: a bridge over a working lock, a quiet embankment opposite the green floodplain and a church from 1598.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
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        🏛 Karamyshevsky Bridge and Lock No. 9
        ул. Народного Ополчения — ул. Нижние Мнёвники
        A 1930s bridge right over a lock of the Moscow Canal: from here you can see ships being raised and lowered on the straightened stretch of the Moskva River.
        10 minutes from Mnyovniki station. From the bridge's pavement you can see the lock chambers; in the navigation season you may catch a ship passing through.
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        Karamyshevsky Bridge and Lock No. 9
        © Mike1979 Russia · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Karamyshevsky Bridge and Lock No. 9
        © Елена Нечипоренко · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • Built in 1935-1937 together with the Moscow-Volga Canal.
        • The bridge's piers stand right on the walls of Lock No. 9.
        • The span is 45 metres, and ships up to 14 metres high pass under the bridge.
        • The bridge crosses the Karamyshevo bend cut-off of the Moskva River.
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        🚶 Karamyshevskaya Embankment
        Карамышевская наб.
        A quiet residential embankment along the Moskva River with a view of the green Mnyovniki floodplain on the opposite bank.
        Go down to the embankment and walk northwest along the river, about 20 minutes. On the other bank is the Mnyovniki floodplain.
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        Karamyshevskaya Embankment
        © Gennady Grachev from Moscow, Russia · CC BY 2.0
        • The name was given in 1963 after the village of Karamyshevo, known since 1646.
        • The village itself was moved a kilometre and a half in the 1930s because of the construction of the canal's waterworks.
        • According to the genealogy, the Karamyshev family descends from a man from the Horde named Karamysh.
        • Locals have long used part of the embankment as a recreation area.
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        🏛 Church of the Trinity in Khoroshyovo
        Карамышевская наб., 15
        A church of 1598 with a tent-roofed silhouette from Boris Godunov's estate — one of the oldest in Moscow outside the centre.
        At the end of the embankment, building 15. Walk round the church: a separate 18th-century bell tower stands to one side.
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        Church of the Trinity in Khoroshyovo
        © Ludvig14 · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Church of the Trinity in Khoroshyovo
        © karel291 · CC BY 3.0
        Church of the Trinity in Khoroshyovo
        © Елена Нечипоренко · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • Built in 1598 by order of Boris Godunov in his village of Khoroshyovo.
        • The model was the Small Cathedral of the Donskoy Monastery; the author is believed to be Fyodor Kon.
        • A separate bell tower was built in 1764-1768.
        • The refectory connecting the church with the bell tower was added in 1845.

      ↩️ Getting back: from the church, 25 minutes on foot to Narodnoye Opolcheniye metro on the Big Circle Line along Demyana Bednogo Street, or by bus

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