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      Stromynka: the fire tower, almshouses and Matrosky Bridge

      ⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 2.4 km🍽 1📍 6 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      An hour from Sokolniki to Preobrazhenka along old Stromynka: an 1880s fire tower, merchant's and Catherine-era almshouses, and a bridge over the Yauza.

      🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
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        ☕️ Farsh burger place by Sokolniki metro
        Сокольническая пл., 9
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        Right at the Sokolniki metro exit: have a burger before the walk or take a coffee.
        🍴 Arkady Novikov's burger place on Sokolnicheskaya Square with a kids' menu: juicy marbled-beef burgers. Try: a double cheeseburger, the "Bryansk Guy", fries with cheese sauce, BBQ wings.
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        🏛 Sokolniki Fire Tower
        Русаковская ул., 26
        One of the few pre-revolutionary fire towers left in Moscow — a brick tower of the 1880s by Sokolniki metro.
        3 minutes along Rusakovskaya Street. The tower is a tall brick tower over the fire station; opposite, at the start of Gastello Street, is a bust of the pilot Gastello with granite wings.
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        Sokolniki Fire Tower
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The tower was built in 1881-1884 to a design by M. K. Geppener, who won the competition.
        • Residents spent 18 years collecting the money for it — 20,000 roubles.
        • It was the second-tallest lookout tower in Moscow after the Sukharev Tower.
        • By day a fire was signalled with balls on a mast, by night with lanterns; the station kept 30 horses.
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        🏛 Rusakov Club
        ул. Стромынка, 6
        Konstantin Melnikov's most recognisable workers' club: three concrete "teeth" of the auditorium loom over Stromynka. Now home to Roman Viktyuk's theatre.
        Turn onto Stromynka: Melnikov's “gear” stands on the corner. Walk round the building to see the auditorium's cantilevers.
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        Rusakov Club
        © Gennady Grachev from Moscow, Russia · CC BY 2.0
        • The club was built in 1927–1929 for the municipal workers' union and named after its chairman Ivan Rusakov.
        • The three projections on the facade are the auditorium's balconies, cantilevered out over the street.
        • Melnikov devised a transformable hall: partitions could divide it into several separate halls.
        • The same architect built the garage on Novoryazanskaya a couple of years earlier — now the Moscow Transport Museum.
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        🏛 Boev Brothers Almshouse
        ул. Стромынка, 10
        A long two-storey building in the Russian style with the dome of a house church — a merchant almshouse on the former Sokolniki Field.
        Further along Stromynka, 3 minutes: a long two-storey building with the dome of a house church.
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        Boev Brothers Almshouse
        © NVO · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The main contribution to construction came from the first-guild merchant Nikolai Ivanovich Boev.
        • The design was by the architect A. L. Ober.
        • The dome of the house Church of St Nicholas the Wonderworker rises above the main building.
        • The neighbouring 1st and 2nd Boevskaya Streets are named after the benefactors.
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        🏛 Catherine (Sailors') Almshouse
        ул. Стромынка, 20
        A square of 18th-century buildings by the Yauza: first a sailcloth factory of Peter's day, then an almshouse for elderly sailors.
        Another 10 minutes along Stromynka to the Yauza. An old square with a bell tower — it's now a teaching building, so look from outside.
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        Catherine (Sailors') Almshouse
        © AndyVolykhov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • At its core are the buildings of a sailcloth factory founded in 1696-1698; stone buildings are mentioned from 1719.
        • In 1775 the city's Catherine Almshouse opened here — at first for old sailors, which is why it was called the Sailors' Almshouse.
        • The closed courtyard square took shape in 1787-1790 to a design by I. A. Selekhov, and the bell tower with a spire was added in 1806.
        • In 1812 it served as a hospital for the wounded.
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        🌅 Matrossky Bridge over the Yauza
        ул. Стромынка, у Русаковской и Преображенской набережных
        A three-span bridge of the 1950s from Stromynka to Preobrazhenka; from it you can see the bend of the Yauza and its embankments in both directions.
        Step to the middle of the bridge: up and down the river you see the bends of the Yauza and its embankments. From the bridge, it's 10 minutes along Preobrazhenskaya Street to Preobrazhenskaya Ploshchad metro.
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        Matrossky Bridge over the Yauza
        © NVO · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The current bridge was built in 1956 (engineer B. G. Naumov, architect G. G. Shakhova).
        • The first wooden bridge here was put up in 1793 with money from the merchant Mazayev.
        • The name comes from the Sailors' Quarter (Matrosskaya Sloboda) of Peter's time.
        • The bridge, including its approaches, is 206 metres long.

      ↩️ Getting back: 10 minutes along Preobrazhenskaya Street to Preobrazhenskaya Ploshchad metro

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