Troparyovo: a church by the pond and a forest park

⏱ 4 h🚶 5.1 km🍽 2📍 5 stops

🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

All that remains of the village of Troparyovo is a late-17th-century church and the pond below it, and beyond Vernadsky Prospekt begins a real forest with an eco-trail.

👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre

👶 3–6, 7–12 years · ✓ stroller-friendly

You can get around the pond and along the avenue. The eco-trail in the forest park is dirt, and in wet weather only an all-terrain stroller will cope. Troparyovo metro has a lift; Yugo-Zapadnaya doesn't.

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🏛 Church of the Archangel Michael in Troparyovo
пр-т Вернадского, 90, стр. 1
A red-brick church of the 1690s in the Naryshkin Baroque style with white carved details.
Start — Yugo-Zapadnaya metro, 15 minutes along Vernadsky Prospekt. The church is all that is left of the old village; you can go inside.
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© евгений измайлов · CC BY-SA 3.0
- The stone church was completed by 1694 with funds from the Novodevichy Convent, which owned the village; the architect's name is unknown.
- Judging by its architecture, the bell tower is older than the church itself: it is dated to the mid-17th century and the Moscow uzorochye (ornate) style.
- The church was closed in 1939, and in the 1960s it stored Mosfilm sets.
- The consecration on 23 February 1989 was the first consecration of a church reopened after the persecutions in Moscow.
- Parishioners hid one old bell; until 1989 it was kept in the Theatre on Yugo-Zapad opposite the church.
- The church flashes by in "The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!" (1975) and in the Italian film "Sunflower" (1970).
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🌳 Troparyovo Pond
у пр-та Вернадского, 90
A small pond next to an old church, surrounded by willows and a walking path.
Walk around the pond: the best view of the church is from the far shore.
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- The name Troparyovo comes from the nickname of the boyar Ivan Mikhailovich — Troparyo: he sang church troparia well.
- In 1583 Ivan the Terrible gave the village of Troparyovo to the Novodevichy Convent.
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🍽 Kuvshin restaurant (The Jug) · 🧸 play area
ул. Академика Анохина, 58
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Lunch: khachapuri, khinkali, shkmeruli. Portions are big — order gradually.
🍴 A Georgian restaurant by Troparyovo forest park, with live music on weekend evenings. What to order: khachapuri, khinkali (Georgian dumplings), shkmeruli (garlic chicken).
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🌳 Troparyovo forest park, eco trail
район Тропарёво-Никулино, Экологическая тропа
🚪 entrance from Akademika Anokhina Street
Part of the Troparyovsky nature reserve: an old mixed forest with oaks and birches, streams and ponds.
The eco-trail leads deep into the old forest — allow an hour to an hour and a half; waterproof shoes are needed in wet weather.
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© Dzasohovich · CC BY-SA 4.0
© Dzasohovich · CC BY-SA 4.0
- The Troparyovsky landscape reserve covers 218.7 hectares.
- The park was laid out in 1961 on the site of monastery orchards and named in honor of the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party.
- Six alleys radiate from the round central square with its commemorative oaks: birch, larch, poplar, apple, maple and linden.
- More than 40,000 trees were planted when the park was created.
- In 2007 an "Apothecary Garden" with about 50 species of medicinal plants was planted near the central circle.
- 376 species of herbaceous plants have been counted here, 33 of them in Moscow's Red Book.
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☕️ Mome café
Ленинский пр-т, 127
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A snack: khinkali or dessert with coffee. The finish is Troparyovo metro, two minutes away.
🍴 A small Georgian café in a residential building near Troparyovo metro, with a kids' corner. What to order: lamb khinkali (Georgian dumplings), khachapuri, ajapsandali (vegetable stew).