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      Babushkin: a dacha town by Losiny Ostrov

      ⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 5 km🍽 3📍 7 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      The former town of Losinoostrovsk: a park for dacha-dwellers, an 1898 station, a church that was never closed, plov on Yaroslavka and a way straight into the national park.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre
      👶 3–6, 7–12 years · ✗ hard with a stroller

      Twice across the tracks at Losinoostrovskaya — a crossing with stairs (a lift is unconfirmed); in the forest toward Russky Byt the clearings are dirt.

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        ☕️ French Bakery SeDelice on Letchika Babushkina Street
        ул. Лётчика Бабушкина, 26
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        Start from Babushkinskaya metro: the metro stands right on the Yauza, look at it from the bridge. A snack: a croissant and hot chocolate
        🍴 A French bakery with a coffee shop on the way from the metro to Babushkinsky Park. What to order: a croissant, syrniki (fried curd pancakes), carrot cake, hot chocolate.
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        🌳 Babushkinsky Park
        ул. Менжинского / Ленская ул.
        🚪 entrance from Yantarny Passage
        A small neighborhood park with walking alleys, sports grounds and lawns.
        A park laid out for the dacha-dwellers of Losinoostrovsk: a "dry" fountain and the Green Theatre
        🚪 exit to Shushenskaya Street
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        Babushkinsky Park
        © Gennady Grachev from Moscow, Russia · CC BY 2.0
        Babushkinsky Park
        © Gennady Grachev from Moscow, Russia · CC BY 2.0
        • The park was laid out in 1898 when the Losinoostrovsky dacha village was planned — "one verst long".
        • In 1905 the local Improvement Society built a summer theater, a winter pavilion and tennis courts here.
        • It received the status of a park of culture and leisure in 1955; at the same time a monument was erected to the polar pilot Mikhail Babushkin, after whom the town of Babushkin was named.
        • A writers' alley with busts of Russian writers headed by Pushkin was laid out perpendicular to the central alley.
        • The Arktika cinema at the park's corner was built in 1967 and rebuilt as a cultural center in 2024–2026.
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        🍽 Testoria family restaurant · 🧸 play area
        ул. Коминтерна, 15
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        About 450 m from Babushkinsky Park. A kids' play corner right in the dining room, with parents visible from the table. Breakfasts from 9:00 to 14:00.
        🍴 A family restaurant with Georgian and Italian cuisine by Babushkinsky Park. There is a kids' play corner that keeps children busy while parents eat. Try: khachapuri, beef khinkali, salmon steak, and dishes from the kids' menu for children.
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        🏛 Losinoostrovskaya station
        Анадырский пр., 17
        A station on the Yaroslavl line by the former dacha village that grew into the town of Babushkin.
        The dacha settlement began here in 1898: the town's streets still follow the old forest clearings
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        Losinoostrovskaya station
        © Никита Андреев · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • In 1898 the "10th verst" marshalling station of the Moscow-Yaroslavl railway opened here, and the passenger platform in 1902.
        • The station took its name from the neighboring forest, Losiny Ostrov.
        • The Losinoostrovskaya dacha village grew up around the station, later became the town of Babushkin, and joined Moscow in 1960.
        • In the fall of 1912 a pedestrian bridge was built over the tracks, joining the two halves of the village.
        • Until 2017 the station was a marshalling yard; the wagon traffic was then transferred to Lyublino-Sortirovochnoye.
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        🏛 Church of Saints Adrian and Natalia in Babushkin
        Ярославское ш., 61, корп. 1
        A Neo-Russian church of 1914–1916 that never closed, even in Soviet times.
        A neo-Russian church from 1914-1916, not closed even in Soviet times
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        Church of Saints Adrian and Natalia in Babushkin
        © A.Savin · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The church's design was developed by the architect Vladimir Glazov and the engineer S. M. Fominsky, and construction was led by the architect Sergey Ilyinsky.
        • The money for construction — 15,000 rubles — was given by the merchant Alexander Ivanov; he also chose the dedication because he lived near another church of Adrian and Natalia, in Meshchanskaya Sloboda.
        • When the First World War began, donations dried up, and for some time the church stood without a roof and dome.
        • On 27 July 1924 Patriarch Tikhon served the liturgy here.
        • The building is a low domed rotunda of the Byzantine type on a square base, with references to Pskov architecture.
        • In Soviet years Muscovites came here to be baptized: no documents were required and the baptisms were not reported to workplaces.
        • In 1936–1943 the church belonged to the Renovationists and then returned to the Patriarchal Church.
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        🍽 Plovnaya No. 1 on Yaroslavskoye Highway
        Ярославское ш., 61
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        Lunch: teahouse plov, kutabs and shurpa; open round the clock
        🍴 A big 24-hour Uzbek plov house next door to the Church of Saints Adrian and Natalia. What to order: chaikhana plov, kutabs (stuffed flatbreads), beef shurpa (soup), lamb manti (dumplings).
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        🌳 Losiny Ostrov: Russky Byt eco center (Russian Way of Life)
        Бумажная просека, 21, стр. 1 (вход в лес с ул. Проходчиков)
        🎟 partly ticketed · the grounds are free, the eco center's exhibitions and programs require a ticket
        The national park's environmental education center with log buildings and objects of peasant life.
        Enter the forest from Prokhodchikov Street and follow the signs to the eco-centre clearing. Exhibitions and tours are by appointment, but you can walk the clearings freely. Return to Yaroslavskoye Shosse and take a bus to the metro
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        • The Russky Byt museum has operated since 1998 and was reconstructed in 2015.
        • The exhibition shows peasant and suburban settlement life at the turn of the 19th–20th century.
        • A separate theme is the farming of the 10th-century Vyatichi, who settled the Moskva River valley.
        • Losiny Ostrov became a national park in 1983; it is the largest forest tract within Moscow's limits.
        • The forest's old name was "Pogonny Losiny Ostrov": from the tsars' hound hunts ("gon") and elk, the main quarry.

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