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      Koptevo: a wooden tent church and a Byzantine church

      ⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 2.3 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      A quiet hour in Koptevo: a green boulevard from the MCC, two very different churches — a northern wooden log church and a new Byzantine one — and a stele on the site of the Kosmodemyanskys' house.

      🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
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        🚶 Matrosa Zheleznyaka Boulevard
        бульвар Матроса Железняка, Коптево
        A long green boulevard in Koptevo, arcing from Mikhalkovskaya Street to Kosmodemyanskikh Street — a quiet route from the MCC to the churches at the Great Garden Pond.
        From MCC Koptevo, 5 minutes along Mikhalkovskaya Street to the start of the boulevard and then south along the avenue. At the crossing with Koptevsky Boulevard turn left, toward Bolshaya Akademicheskaya.
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        Matrosa Zheleznyaka Boulevard
        © Qweasdqwe · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The boulevard was named in 1964 after the nickname of the Baltic sailor Anatoly Zheleznyakov (1895-1919).
        • It crosses Koptevsky Boulevard and Novopetrovskaya Street and comes out at Zoya and Alexander Kosmodemyanskikh Street.
        • Koptevo is first mentioned in 1595 as a wasteland; the name comes from the name Kopot or the surname Koptev.
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        🏛 Church of St Spyridon of Trimythous in Koptevo
        Большая Академическая ул., вл. 33
        A big new church in the Byzantine style with a stone iconostasis made in Georgia — architecture unusual for Moscow.
        A large white building with domes in Byzantine style. If it's open, go in to see the stone iconostasis from Georgia.
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        Church of St Spyridon of Trimythous in Koptevo
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        • The foundation stone was consecrated in 2017, the building was completed in 2023, and on 25 December 2023 Patriarch Kirill consecrated the church.
        • The carved iconostasis, made of different kinds of stone, was crafted by stone carvers in Georgia and brought to Moscow in pieces.
        • The place has a Georgian connection: in the 18th century Koptevo was owned by the Georgian prince Giorgi Vakhtangovich.
        • It is one of the largest churches built under the "200 Churches" programme in northern Moscow.
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        🏛 Wooden Church of St George the Victorious in Koptevo
        Большая Академическая ул., 33
        A log tent-roofed church in the spirit of 17th-century northern architecture, assembled by carpenters from Arkhangelsk in 1997.
        Two minutes on, closer to Bolshaya Akademicheskaya, is a wooden church behind a fence. Walk round the log structure: a tent roof, five domes and a bell tower over the entrance.
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        Wooden Church of St George the Victorious in Koptevo
        © Gennady Grachev from Moscow, Russia · CC BY 2.0
        Wooden Church of St George the Victorious in Koptevo
        © Qweasdqwe · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The church was built in 1997 for Moscow's 850th anniversary, designed by the architect V. V. Ivanov, who worked with monuments of the Russian North.
        • The log frame was put up by a team of carpenters from Arkhangelsk, using tools made to old patterns.
        • The church has a tent roof and five domes, with a small bell tower above the porch.
        • Next to it stands the baptistery Church of the Holy Innocents of Bethlehem.
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        🍽 Eshki Matreshki restaurant on Bolshaya Akademicheskaya
        Большая Академическая ул., 35, стр. 1
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        Across the road from the church. A good place for Russian food for lunch; opens at noon.
        🍴 A Russian-cuisine restaurant right by the Koptevo churches. What to order: soup and a main course from the Russian classics.
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        • The restaurant is across the road from the western tip of the Great Garden Pond.
        • The cuisine is Russian, and there is a banquet hall.
        • The dining room is open daily from noon to midnight.
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        🏛 Monument to Zoya and Alexander Kosmodemyansky
        бульвар Матроса Железняка, у ул. Зои и Александра Космодемьянских
        A red granite stele on the site of the house where the siblings Kosmodemyansky lived before the war, with carved portraits.
        Go back to Matrosa Zheleznyaka Boulevard and walk south to its end, 10 minutes. The stele is at the beginning of the boulevard, by Kosmodemyanskikh Street.
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        • Zoya and Alexander Kosmodemyansky lived here, in a wooden house on Novopodmoskovnaya Street, from 1933 to 1941.
        • On 9 May 1960 the street was renamed in their honour.
        • The stele was made by the sculptor S. A. Loik and architects S. G. Deminsky and Yu. Yu. Uspensky; the portraits are carved in counter-relief.
        • The monument was restored in 2015.

      ↩️ Getting back: to Voykovskaya metro — by tram along Kosmodemyanskikh Street toward Leningradskoye Shosse, or 25 minutes on foot

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