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      Sokolniki: a rope park and a picnic

      ⏱ 5 h🚶 4.4 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      An active day in Sokolniki: PandaPark's high-up courses, lunch on Pesochnaya Alley and a picnic in the camping gazebos along the forest clearings.

      👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature
      👶 3–6, 7–12, 13+ years · ✓ stroller-friendly

      The park has smooth asphalt, and a wide 5th Luchevoy Prosek leads to the camping area. Sokolniki on the red line has no lift, while Sokolniki on the Big Circle Line has lifts — or come by bus or taxi to the main entrance.

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        🏛 Main entrance to Sokolniki
        The arched entrance complex of the park at Sokolnicheskaya Square, from which a wide avenue leads deep into the forest.
        Bring scooters or a balance bike from home — the Luchevoy clearings are good for rolling all day
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        Main entrance to Sokolniki
        © Qweasdqwe · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Main entrance to Sokolniki
        © Gennady Grachev from Moscow, Russia · CC BY 2.0
        • The name comes from sokolniki, falconers who trained hunting birds: Ivan the Terrible and Alexei Mikhailovich hunted here.
        • In 1878 the city bought the Sokolnichya and Olenya groves and set up a public park.
        • In 2019 a memorial sign was placed at the main entrance to Mayor Sergei Tretyakov, thanks to whom Sokolniki became a city park.
        • In 1931 Sokolniki was declared a park of culture and leisure; until 1937 it bore the name of People's Commissar Andrei Bubnov.
        • The park covers 516 hectares and borders Losiny Ostrov to the north.
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        🌳 Fountain Square in Sokolniki
        A round square with a large fountain, from which the main clearings of the old park radiate like rays.
        A short stop by the fountain: from here it's five minutes to PandaPark along Pesochnaya Alley
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        Fountain Square in Sokolniki
        © Alina Vozna · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • Eight avenues fan out from the Sokolniki Circle, including Pesochnaya, the Luchevye and the Maysky clearings.
        • The fan layout of the clearings was cut in the 1840s.
        • The Maysky clearing was cut as early as Peter I, who held festivities here.
        • In 1883 a wooden rotunda was put up on the circle, where music played on holidays and later concerts and even operas were given.
        • In 1959 the American National Exhibition opened nearby, where Khrushchev and Nixon held the famous "kitchen debate".
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        ✨ PandaPark rope park in Sokolniki
        1-й Лучевой просек (парк «Сокольники»)
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        A rope town among the trees with suspension bridges, zip lines and courses of different heights.
        The kids' course is from 90 cm; for schoolchildren 125 cm and up there are three routes, from 140 cm five. Off-season it's open 10:00-21:00, the ticket office closes an hour earlier; the courses close in heavy rain. Closed-toe trainers are required
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        • Sokolniki is named after the tsars' falconers, trainers of hunting falcons: Ivan the Terrible and Alexey Mikhailovich hunted here.
        • The layout, with clearings fanning out from the Sokolnichesky Circle, was completed in the 1840s and survives to this day.
        • In the late 19th century each clearing was planted with its own tree species: the 1st Luchevoy with birches, the 2nd and 6th with elms, the 3rd with poplars, the 4th with maples, the 5th with ashes.
        • The 4th Luchevoy clearing was cut in 1812 as the shortest way to Losiny Ostrov.
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        ☕️ Green Park café in Sokolniki
        Песочная аллея, 2 (парк Сокольники)
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        Lunch here or takeaway shashlik for a picnic — the gazebos are about 30 minutes from here along the 5th Luchevoy Prosek
        🍴 The Georgian café Green Park in Sokolniki: the interior feels like old Tbilisi, and next to the café is a shop with jam and kozinaki (nut brittle). What to order: shashlik, crispy aubergine salad, kharcho (beef and rice soup).
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        🌳 Camping picnic area in Sokolniki
        5-й Лучевой просек, вл. 16А (парк «Сокольники»)
        A forest glade deep in Sokolniki with wooden gazebos and picnic tables.
        10 wooden gazebos with tables: sessions 09:00-14:30 and 15:15-21:00, book on Mosbilet; two areas are first come, first served. The gazebos are seasonal, so check in October that they're still open
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        • The Maysky clearing was cut under Peter I, who held May Day festivities here.
        • In 1878 the city bought the Sokolnicheskaya and Olenya groves and made a public park for strolling.
        • Sokolniki became a park of culture and leisure on 16 May 1931.
        • In 1959 the American National Exhibition took place between the 4th and 5th Luchevoy clearings, where Khrushchev and Nixon held their "kitchen debate".
        • The park's picnic areas were landscaped under the 2012–2016 city program.

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