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      Zyuzino: ponds, ducks and a 17th-century church

      ⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 3 km🍽 0📍 5 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      A walk from Zyuzino station along the ponds of the former village: a Naryshkin church, a round pond with ducks and a district park with playgrounds.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
      👶 under 3, 3–6 years · ✓ stroller-friendly

      The whole route is on asphalt, without stairs. Cross Kakhovka and Sevastopolsky Prospekt at street-level traffic lights. Zyuzino station on the Big Circle Line has lifts.

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        🌳 Perekopsky Pond and the Perekop Heroes Monument
        Перекопская ул., у Севастопольского пр-та
        A small estate pond of the former village of Zyuzino with paths by the water and a memorial sign devised by schoolchildren.
        Five minutes from Zyuzino station along Perekopskaya. Walk round the pond on the wooden path by the water; the memorial sign is on the north shore.
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        Perekopsky Pond and the Perekop Heroes Monument
        © DyPeMaP · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Perekopsky Pond and the Perekop Heroes Monument
        © DyPeMaP · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The pond is one of four ponds of the village of Zyuzino, which in the 17th century belonged to the boyarina Morozova.
        • An inventory of 1666 says of the ponds here: "and in the ponds are small crucian carp".
        • The memorial sign "To the Heroes of Perekop. 1920-1944" was unveiled on 15 November 1972, funded by pupils of the neighbouring school.
        • The sketch of the sign was drawn by the schoolboy Vadim Ermolaev.
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        🏛 Church of Sts Boris and Gleb in Zyuzino
        Перекопская ул., 7, стр. 1
        Naryshkin Baroque among panel blocks: the church of the former estate of the Prozorovsky princes, a relative of the church in Troitse-Lykovo.
        Three minutes from the pond along Perekopskaya. Walk round the church: Baroque decoration on all the facades.
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        Church of Sts Boris and Gleb in Zyuzino
        © Viola Luchansky · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Church of Sts Boris and Gleb in Zyuzino
        © Kemal KOZBAEV · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The stone church was built in 1698-1704 for the Prozorovsky princes.
        • Architecturally it is close to the Church of the Trinity in Troitse-Lykovo.
        • The church was closed in 1938; from 1966 it housed an artificial diamond plant, then a ministry archive.
        • The church was returned to believers in 1989.
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        🌳 Pond on Kerchenskaya Street
        Керченская ул., у ул. Каховка
        A round courtyard pond with willows on the bank — mallard ducks are fed here.
        10 minutes along Kerchenskaya. Take oatmeal or grain for the ducks — bread is bad for them.
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        Pond on Kerchenskaya Street
        © DyPeMaP · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The pond is in the upper reaches of the Lower Zyuzino stream, a right tributary of the Kotlovka.
        • Its area is about 0.5 hectares and its length about 90 metres.
        • The bank on the Kerchenskaya Street side is low, with remnants of old willow thicket.
        • It is one of the popular places in the area for feeding mallards.
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        🌳 Zyuzino Park and Kakhovsky Pond
        ул. Каховка, 11, корп. 1
        A neighbourhood park around the Lower Afonino Pond: playgrounds, paths by the water and sea-themed graffiti on the walls of nearby buildings.
        15 minutes along Kakhovka. The playgrounds are in the park by the pond; around the water is a loop path of about 10 minutes.
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        Zyuzino Park and Kakhovsky Pond
        © DyPeMaP · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Zyuzino Park and Kakhovsky Pond
        © DyPeMaP · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The park opened in 2014 on the site of a neglected square with garages.
        • The centre of the park is the Lower Afonino, or Kakhovsky, Pond.
        • A Church of St Benjamin of Petrograd was built on the pond's bank on the Kakhovka side.
        • The walls of the neighbouring buildings are decorated with sea-themed graffiti.
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        🏛 Monument to the Defenders of Moscow's Sky
        Большая Юшуньская ул.
        A monument to the crew of an SB-2 bomber that crashed in October 1941: the plane was found 27 years later, while a cable was being laid in a courtyard.
        Right beyond the park, on Bolshaya Yushunskaya. The crew of three airmen was identified by schoolchild trackers from the neighbouring school.
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        • Unveiled on 1 October 1971 by the former School No. 629.
        • On 12 October 1941 a damaged SB-2 fell on Chertanovo airfield; the crew was killed.
        • In 1968 an excavator in a courtyard on Kirovogradskaya Street turned up the plane's skin with a red star.
        • The pilots' names were established from engine and propeller numbers by pathfinder schoolchildren.

      ↩️ Getting back: from the monument, 10 minutes to Kakhovskaya or Sevastopolskaya metro

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