South River Station and the Nagatino floodplain

⏱ 45 min🚶 1.6 km🍽 1📍 3 stops

🐢 A little — under 3 km

Across Nagatinsky Bridge to the river station and onto the floodplain peninsula with lawns and an embankment. You can finish with plov on the Dream Island promenade.

🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

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🏛 Southern River Terminal (Yuzhny Rechnoy Vokzal)
пр-т Андропова, 11, корп. 2
A Soviet-modernist river terminal on Nagatinskaya Embankment, reopened after reconstruction in 2023.
Cross the river by the pavement of Nagatinsky Bridge and turn right — from the station there is a view of the river and Nagatinskaya Embankment
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© Retired electrician · CC0
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- The terminal moved here, to Nagatinskaya Embankment, in 1972 and worked from a temporary floating pier until 1985.
- The Soviet-modernist building was built in 1985; the first sailing was the motor ship Pavel Yudin to Astrakhan.
- In 2017 the city tried through the courts to demolish the building as an illegal construction, but in 2018 the court rejected the claim.
- In 2021–2023 the terminal was effectively built anew: only one brick wall of the 1985 building remains, and it is shown inside.
- The concrete figures of the five seas weighed about 3.5 tonnes each; copies made of fibreglass from 3D scans stand in their place today.
- After the opening in April 2023, the first ship to call at the terminal was the Borodino.
🚶 on foot
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🌳 Nagatinskaya Poyma Park
A large park on a peninsula in a bend of the Moskva River, with an embankment, lawns and sports grounds.
Stroll along the embankment and the floodplain lawns — a park on a peninsula that appeared when the river was straightened by a canal in 1968.
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- The peninsula appeared in 1968, when a 3.5 km canal was dug to straighten the Moskva River.
- To drain the marshy floodplain, more than 1 million cubic metres of soil were piled up here.
- The name comes from the village of Nagatino; by one version, from the many gats (log roads over marsh).
- In 1977 the 60th Anniversary of October Park was laid out here, created by workers of the ZIL plant and local residents.
- In 2008 there were plans to build Norman Foster's 450-metre skyscraper, Crystal Island, here; the project was not realised.
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🍽 Vasilchuki Chaihona №1 at Ostrov Mechty (Dream Island) · 🧸 play area
пр-т Андропова, 1, «Остров мечты», 2-й этаж
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A finish at Dream Island: the signature plov or shashlik on the 2nd floor of the city promenade. The rides are optional, with a ticket.
🍴 An Eastern-cuisine restaurant on the Dream Island promenade with a kids' room and kids' corner; entertainers and workshops for children. Try: the signature plov and shashlik; for kids, dishes from the kids' menu.