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      At Rizhskaya: Trifon in Naprudnoye and Solodovnikov's houses

      ⏱ 1 h 25 min🚶 2.5 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      An hour and a half at Rizhskaya: the world's first space monument, an 18th-century coachmen's church, Art Nouveau houses for the poor and one of Moscow's oldest churches.

      🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
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        🏛 Monument to the Creators of the First Earth Satellite
        Рижская пл., у вестибюля м. «Рижская»
        A bronze worker raises Sputnik-1 to the sky — the world's first space-themed monument, right at the metro exit.
        Right by the Rizhskaya metro vestibule on the station side. The worker with “Sputnik” looks at Rizhsky Station.
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        Monument to the Creators of the First Earth Satellite
        © Gennady Grachev from Moscow, Russia · CC BY 2.0
        • The monument was unveiled in 1963; the sculptor is S. Ya. Kovner, the architect V. N. Kartsev.
        • It is considered the world's first space-themed monument.
        • It was conceived as the start of a space ensemble along Prospekt Mira — later came the Monument to the Conquerors of Space and the Alley of Cosmonauts.
        • The figure faces Rizhsky Station; the monument was restored in 1998.
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        🏛 Church of the Sign in Pereyaslavskaya Sloboda
        2-й Крестовский пер., 17
        A Baroque church of the coachmen of the former Pereyaslavskaya Sloboda by Rizhsky Station, mid-18th century.
        5 minutes east, past Rizhsky Market, in Krestovsky Lane. The church of the former coachmen of Pereyaslavskaya Sloboda.
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        Church of the Sign in Pereyaslavskaya Sloboda
        © A.Savin · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Church of the Sign in Pereyaslavskaya Sloboda
        © Mike1979 Russia · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • A wooden Church of the Beheading of John the Baptist stood here as early as the 17th century.
        • The stone church was built at the request of the coachmen of Pereyaslavskaya Sloboda starting in 1757 and consecrated in 1766.
        • In 1845 part of the church land was taken for the St Petersburg railway, and the parish received compensation.
        • The main altar is dedicated to the icon of the Mother of God "of the Sign".
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        🍽 Rassolnikov restaurant on Prospekt Mira
        пр. Мира, 68А
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        Down Prospekt Mira, 7–8 minutes. A good place for lunch, opens at noon.
        🍴 A Russian-cuisine restaurant between Rizhskaya and Prospekt Mira. What to order: rassolnik (pickle soup) and a main course from the Russian classics.
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        • A Russian-cuisine restaurant at 68A Prospekt Mira.
        • It is a few minutes' walk from the Solodovnikov houses and Rizhskaya metro.
        • Open daily until midnight.
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        🏛 Solodovnikov Cheap Apartment Houses
        ул. Гиляровского, 65
        Two five-storey houses of 1909 for poor tenants — Northern Art Nouveau with Gothic touches, built with the millions of the miserly merchant Solodovnikov.
        Across Prospekt Mira to Gilyarovsky Street. Two five-storey houses with tall windows — look from outside; inside are offices and an institute.
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        Solodovnikov Cheap Apartment Houses
        © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The houses were built in 1909 under the will of G. G. Solodovnikov, known in Moscow for his stinginess.
        • The house for families was designed by B. I. Konetsky (motto "Red Rhombus"), the house for single people by M. M. Peretyatkovich and M. S. Lyalevich ("Free Citizen").
        • Up to 2,000 people lived in the houses — there was nothing like it in the Russian Empire.
        • Since 1965 the house for single people has been home to VNIIALMAZ, the institute of diamonds and tools.
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        🏛 Church of St Tryphon in Naprudnoye
        Трифоновская ул., 38
        A small white-stone church of the 15th-16th century — one of the oldest churches in Moscow, lost among high-rises near Rizhskaya.
        5–7 minutes west along Trifonovskaya Street. A small white-stone church hides among the houses, with the entrance from the street side. Walk all round it: walls, portals, a cross vault.
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        Church of St Tryphon in Naprudnoye
        © Aniacra · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • It is one of the earliest surviving architectural monuments in Moscow.
        • There is no exact date: researchers place its construction anywhere from the 1470s-1490s to the mid-16th century.
        • The Church of St Tryphon is the first Russian church roofed with a cross vault.
        • It stands on the site of the former village of Naprudnoye, on the river of the same name, a tributary of the Neglinnaya.

      ↩️ Getting back: 10–12 minutes on foot along Trifonovskaya Street to Rizhskaya metro

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