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      Sparrow Hills for locals: Malchish, the Palace, Herzen

      ⏱ 1 h 25 min🚶 2.5 km🍽 1📍 6 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      Up on the 1959 escalator, to Malchish-Kibalchish and the modernist Pioneers' Palace, pancakes on Kosygin Street, the place of Herzen's oath and a village church by the viewpoint.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
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        🏛 Escalator Gallery on Vorobyovy Hills
        от станции «Воробьёвы горы» к ул. Косыгина
        A glass gallery with escalators that lifts you from the metro through the forest to the hilltop. Built in 1959, abandoned for almost 30 years and reopened in 2022.
        Exit from Vorobyovy Gory metro toward Vorobyovskoye Shosse, the gallery is immediately on the right. It rides up through the forest to Kosygin Street.
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        Escalator Gallery on Vorobyovy Hills
        © Anton n · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Escalator Gallery on Vorobyovy Hills
        © MBH · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The gallery first opened on 22 July 1959.
        • After the station closed for reconstruction in 1983, the gallery fell into disrepair and closed by the end of the 1980s.
        • Reconstruction began in 2019.
        • It reopened ahead of schedule, on 23 December 2022.
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      3. 2
        🏛 Malchish-Kibalchish Monument
        ул. Косыгина, 17, у Дворца пионеров
        A five-metre Malchish in a budenovka cap with a sabre and a bugle — the hero of Gaidar's fairy tale at the entrance to the Palace of Pioneers.
        At the top turn left, 3 minutes, at the corner with Prospekt Vernadskogo.
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        Malchish-Kibalchish Monument
        © Екатерина Арутюнова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • Installed on 19 May 1972, for the 50th anniversary of the Pioneer organisation.
        • Height: 5 metres.
        • In his right hand Malchish holds a sabre, in his left a bugle.
        • The monument was restored in 2022 for its 50th anniversary.
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      5. 3
        🏛 Palace of Pioneers on Vorobyovy Hills
        ул. Косыгина, 17
        Moscow's main monument of Soviet modernism: pavilions with glass walls and mosaics, blended into the park.
        Behind Malchish, an avenue leads to the palace. Walk round the main building on the left, where the mosaics on the facade are easier to see.
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        Palace of Pioneers on Vorobyovy Hills
        © MBH · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Palace of Pioneers on Vorobyovy Hills
        © MBH · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • Built in 1958-1962 by a team of young architects led by Igor Pokrovsky.
        • Opened on 1 June 1962, Children's Day, in the presence of Nikita Khrushchev.
        • The building was set back from the road and at an angle to it, to fit into the landscape.
        • The palace was conceived together with the Palace of Soviets behind MSU, which was never built.
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        ☕️ Blin Blinsky pancake place on Sparrow Hills
        ул. Косыгина, 20
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        Along Kosygin Street toward the viewpoint; the pancake place is by building 20. Pancakes to go are handy to eat on the way.
        🍴 A blini place at the start of Sparrow Hills: hot blini and berry fruit drinks (mors). Try: the "Davai Myaso" (Give Me Meat) blin, a blin with ham and cheese, a blin with Nutella and banana, hot mors.
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      9. 5
        🏛 Herzen and Ogarev Oath Site
        ул. Косыгина, Воробьёвы горы
        A granite obelisk above the slope where two teenagers swore in 1827 to devote their lives to the struggle for freedom.
        Along Kosygin toward the viewpoint, 7 minutes; the obelisk is in the little park to the left of the road.
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        Herzen and Ogarev Oath Site
        © Максим Улитин · CC BY 3.0
        Herzen and Ogarev Oath Site
        © Максим Улитин · CC BY 3.0
        • Herzen described the oath in "My Past and Thoughts": "we swore, in sight of all Moscow, to sacrifice our lives".
        • The teenagers ran up to the site where Vitberg's cathedral was to be founded on Vorobyovy Hills.
        • The memorial is a granite obelisk surrounded by a wall with a scroll and portraits of Herzen and Ogarev.
        • Ogarev recalled that day in his poem "First Friendship".
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        🏛 Church of the Trinity on Vorobyovy Hills
        ул. Косыгина, 30
        A village Empire-style church of the former palace village of Vorobyovo — 200 metres from the viewing platform.
        Another 7 minutes along Kosygin. Kutuzov prayed here before the council at Fili; it's 200 metres to the viewing platform.
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        Church of the Trinity on Vorobyovy Hills
        © W. Bulach · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Church of the Trinity on Vorobyovy Hills
        © Uwe Brodrecht · CC BY-SA 2.0
        • The village of Vorobyovo is known since the 1450s, when Grand Princess Sophia Vitovtovna bought it.
        • Construction of the current building began in 1811 to a design by Alexander Vitberg.
        • In 1812 Mikhail Kutuzov prayed here before the council at Fili.
        • In 1937 antimensia from the closed church in Troitskoye-Golenishchevo were moved here.

      ↩️ Getting back: from the church, 3 minutes to the viewpoint and 20 minutes down the eco-trail to Vorobyovy Gory metro

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