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      Zelenograd: microelectronics, a pond and the “Flute”

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 3 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      Moscow’s farthest district — a satellite town of the 1960s: the square where Soviet microelectronics was born, a pond in the centre and a museum in one of the longest buildings in the USSR.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre
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        🏛 Shokin Square and MIET
        пл. Шокина, Зеленоград
        The heart of the "Soviet Silicon Valley": the square in front of the Institute of Electronic Technology, named after the minister who made Zelenograd a centre of microelectronics.
        Getting there: MCD-3 to Zelenograd-Kryukovo (≈40 min from Leningradsky Station), then a bus or taxi ≈10 min to the “MIET” stop. On the square are the institute and the Angstrem buildings
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        Shokin Square and MIET
        © Artyom Svetlov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Shokin Square and MIET
        © Artyom Svetlov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Shokin Square and MIET
        © Gennady Grachev from Moscow, Russia · CC BY 2.0
        • Construction of Zelenograd began in 1958 as a satellite city of Moscow.
        • In the early 1960s the city was re-profiled as a centre of microelectronics.
        • The square is named after Alexander Shokin, USSR Minister of the Electronics Industry from 1965 to 1985.
        • MIET — the Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology — was founded in 1965.
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        🌳 Big City Pond and Victory Park
        Зеленоград, Центральный проспект
        The green centre of old Zelenograd: a pond with a path along the shore and the 40th Anniversary of Victory Park between Tsentralny Prospekt and the residential districts.
        Walk along Tsentralny Prospekt to the pond and go around it along the shore through Victory Park
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        Big City Pond and Victory Park
        © Vsatinet · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Big City Pond and Victory Park
        © Sergey A. Demidov · CC BY 4.0
        • Zelenograd was conceived as a city in a forest: its districts are separated by woodland parks and ponds.
        • The city received the name "Zelenograd" in 1963.
        • The park on the pond's shore is named for the 40th anniversary of Victory.
        • From the pond to the Flute building and the museum it is a ten-minute walk.
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        🖼 Zelenograd Museum in the Flute building (Fleyta)
        Зеленоград, корп. 360
        🎟 ticket
        A local-history museum of the satellite city in one of the longest residential buildings in the USSR: the story of the construction, microelectronics and the battles of 1941 near Kryukovo.
        The museum is in a long curved building — the building itself is no less interesting than the exhibition. Closed Monday; on Thursday the museum is open from 13:00 to 21:00
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        Zelenograd Museum in the Flute building (Fleyta)
        © Perituss · CC0
        Zelenograd Museum in the Flute building (Fleyta)
        © Perituss · CC0
        • The museum opened on residents' initiative in 1969 and became a state museum in 1992.
        • The "Flute" was designed in the 1960s by Igor Pokrovsky, Felix Novikov and Grigory Saevich with the engineer Yuri Ionov.
        • The building is considered a monument of Soviet modernism and one of the longest residential buildings in the USSR.
        • In 1941 a line of Moscow's defence ran through the surroundings of the future city.
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        ☕️ Myatny Gus café-patisserie (Mint Goose)
        Зеленоград, корп. 316
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        Coffee with cake or lunch 10 minutes from the museum, by Yunosti Street
        🍴 A cosy café-patisserie in the old centre of Zelenograd, by Yunosti Street. What to order: a slice of cake and coffee, or soup and a main course for lunch.
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        • Myatny Gus is the second family project of the creators of Zelenograd's bakery "Khleb v Bolshom Gorode".
        • Besides cakes and pastries, they bake blini and syrniki and make quiches, sandwiches and soups.
        • Handmade sweets are made from Belgian chocolate.
        • The patisserie is open daily from 8:00 to 22:00 and delivers around Zelenograd.

      ↩️ Getting back: Back by bus or taxi to Zelenograd-Kryukovo station (≈10–15 min), then MCD-3 to Leningradsky Station ≈40 min.

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