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      Danilovsky: Beket Pond, the rotunda and the “Ship”

      ⏱ 1 h 30 min🚶 3.9 km🍽 0📍 4 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      From MCC Verkhniye Kotly to Tulskaya: a spring-fed pond in the Chura floodplain, an Empire-style rotunda in a plague cemetery, manufactory buildings and a 400-metre atomic scientists' house.

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        🌳 Beket Pond
        Загородное ш., у Третьего транспортного кольца
        A round spring-fed pond in the Chura floodplain with a sandy, grassy beach — a natural monument two steps from the TTK ring road.
        15 minutes from MCC Verkhniye Kotly along Zagorodnoye Shosse. On the south shore are a grassy beach and two springs.
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        Beket Pond
        © Retired electrician · CC0
        Beket Pond
        © Retired electrician · CC0
        Beket Pond
        © Retired electrician · CC0
        • The pond is fed by springs; there are two on the south bank.
        • The water surface is 1.2 hectares and the average depth is 2.5 metres.
        • The name comes from the Beketov dacha; on its site now stands the Alekseyev psychiatric hospital, formerly Kashchenko.
        • The pond is one of Moscow's natural monuments.
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        🏛 Church of the Descent of the Holy Spirit at Danilovskoye Cemetery
        4-й Рощинский пр., 30, стр. 1 (Даниловское кладбище)
        An Empire-style rotunda of the 1830s in the middle of an old cemetery that opened during the plague of 1771.
        8 minutes to the cemetery gates from 4th Roshchinsky Proyezd. Keep quiet; the rotunda is right past the entrance.
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        Church of the Descent of the Holy Spirit at Danilovskoye Cemetery
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        Church of the Descent of the Holy Spirit at Danilovskoye Cemetery
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        • Danilovskoye Cemetery opened in 1771, during the plague epidemic.
        • The stone church was built in 1829-1838, funded by S. L. Lepeshkin and designed by F. M. Shestakov.
        • The first wooden church here was consecrated on 31 December 1772.
        • Next to the Orthodox section, on the slope of a ravine, a Muslim cemetery was set aside — also for plague victims.
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        🏛 Danilovskaya Manufaktura
        Варшавское ш., 9
        Red-brick buildings of a 19th-century textile factory, turned into a business district with passages between the workshops.
        Along Danilovsky Val and Varshavskoye Shosse, 15 minutes. The courtyard between the buildings is open: walk from the gatehouse to the old factory chimney.
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        Danilovskaya Manufaktura
        © Roman Balabin · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Danilovskaya Manufaktura
        © Roman Balabin · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The weaving mill was founded in 1867 by the first-guild merchant V. E. Meshcherin.
        • The Danilovskaya Manufactory Partnership was created in 1876; its board included Soldatyonkov, Knop and Shchukin.
        • The factory wove calico base cloth — the foundation for printed cotton and shawls.
        • The works stood south of Danilovskaya Sloboda, between Serpukhovskoye Highway and the Moskva River.
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        🏛 Ship House on Bolshaya Tulskaya
        Большая Тульская ул., 2
        A 400-metre "lying skyscraper" built for nuclear industry workers by Tulskaya metro — almost 1,000 apartments in one building.
        Along Varshavskoye Shosse, 12 minutes. To grasp the size, stand on the pavement opposite and look along the facade; Tulskaya metro is under the building.
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        Ship House on Bolshaya Tulskaya
        © Ludvig14 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Ship House on Bolshaya Tulskaya
        © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • Built from 1972 to 1986 for the Ministry of Medium Machine Building.
        • It is 400 metres long, 50 high, with fourteen floors.
        • The building has 980 apartments, some of them two-level.
        • It is nicknamed "the Titanic", "the House of the Atomic Workers" and "the Bachelor House".

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