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      North River Terminal and the parks on the water

      ⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 4 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      A restored ship-shaped terminal of 1937, fountains and pleasure-boat piers.

      👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature✨ New places
      👶 under 3, 3–6, 7–12 years · ✓ stroller-friendly

      The parks are level, the alleys asphalt, and the terminal can be reached without steps. There probably is no lift at Rechnoy Vokzal metro — better to arrive by surface transport.

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        🌳 Druzhby Park (Friendship Park)
        A park by Leningradskoye Highway, laid out for the 1957 youth festival, with ponds and avenues.
        Start at Rechnoy Vokzal metro
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        Druzhby Park (Friendship Park)
        © CaneCorso · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Druzhby Park (Friendship Park)
        © Sergey A. Demidov · CC BY 4.0
        • On 1 August 1957 almost 5,000 festival guests planted trees here and left notes with their names on the branches.
        • The layout followed the festival's symbol, a daisy with five petals for the continents; in the centre they planted five 50-year-old lindens from VDNKh and an 80-year-old oak.
        • The Festival Ponds are former pits of the Nikolsky brick factory, opened in 1871.
        • The park's main avenue points at the spire of the Northern River Terminal across Leningradskoye Highway.
        • In 1977 a monument to Hungarian-Soviet friendship replaced the daisy flower bed.
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        🌳 Northern River Terminal Park
        A 1930s park around the Northern River Terminal, with a view of the Khimki Reservoir and a promenade along the water.
        Alleys, fountains and a pond
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        Northern River Terminal Park
        © Сссеееррргггеееййй · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The park was laid out in 1936–1938 on an artificial terrace after the opening of the Moscow Canal; the layout was designed by engineer T. P. Shafransky.
        • Originally the park had 14 sculptural groups and fountains; the fountain bowls and the sculptures Waterway and Sport have survived.
        • Since 1999 the park has been protected as a monument of landscape garden art.
        • After reconstruction the park and the terminal reopened on 5 September 2020, on City Day.
        • A 400-metre stream runs along the embankment, a model of the Moscow Canal with brass miniatures of the terminal and eight locks.
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        🏛 Northern River Terminal
        A 1937 terminal built like a ship, with a spire, long galleries and moorings on the Moscow Canal.
        A star on the spire, said to come from the Kremlin, and a colonnade
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        Northern River Terminal
        © mos.ru · CC BY 4.0
        Northern River Terminal
        © Nick shul · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • Architects Alexei Rukhlyadev and Vladimir Krinsky gave the terminal the look of a steamship: the verandas are decks and the tower with its spire is the funnel.
        • The building is 75 m tall including the spire, and the facade is 150 m long.
        • The terminal was built from 1933 together with the canal, using the labour of Dmitlag prisoners.
        • The star for the spire was made in 1935 at the same time as the first Kremlin stars, but to its own design; the story that it was taken from the Spasskaya Tower is not confirmed.
        • The spire with its star was designed to be retractable: it was raised for the navigation season and lowered for winter.
        • The columns are decorated with 24 majolica medallions: Five-Year Plan construction projects, the metro, the exploration of the Arctic.
        • In 1937 Rukhlyadev received a Grand Prix diploma for the project at the Paris Exhibition.
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        🍽 Dachniki restaurant in Northern River Terminal Park · 🧸 play area
        Ленинградское ш., 57, корп. 2 (парк Северного речного вокзала)
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        Lunch in the park by the canal, opens at 12:00; in summer, a river cruise from the terminal
        🍴 A Russian restaurant in the park by the canal, a few minutes from the terminal building; daily 12:00–00:00. What to order: rooster ukha (fish-style soup), cutlets with mushroom sauce, pike-perch Staraya Russa-style, borscht with a rib.

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