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      Along the river: Muzeon to Vorobyovy Hills

      ⏱ 5 h 30 min🚶 8.5 km🍽 1📍 7 stops
      🏃 A lot — over 7 km

      A long walk along the embankments through three parks to the city's main viewpoint.

      🎨 Art🌳 Parks and nature
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      1. 1
        🌳 Muzeon Art Park
        🚪 entrance from Krymsky Val
        A sculpture park on the embankment by Krymsky Bridge: Soviet monuments taken off their pedestals, and contemporary sculpture.
        Soviet-era sculptures in the open air
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        Muzeon Art Park
        © sailko · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Muzeon Art Park
        © Юрий Д.К. · CC BY 4.0
        • The park was founded on 24 January 1992, after Soviet monuments were being taken down in central Moscow.
        • The 11-tonne Dzerzhinsky monument, removed from Lubyanka on 22 August 1991, has stood here ever since.
        • The collection includes hundreds of sculptures, from Soviet leaders to contemporary art.
        • Here you will find Sergey Merkurov's Stalin in pink granite and Vera Mukhina's We Demand Peace (1950).
        • Since 1995 Muzeon has hosted symposia of wood and stone sculptors.
        • Since October 2015 Muzeon has been part of Gorky Park.
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      3. 2
        🌳 Gorky Park
        🚪 entrance from Krymsky Val
        A big central park along the Moskva River with fountains, lawns, cafés, rentals and a skating rink in winter.
        Pushkinskaya Embankment and rentals
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        Gorky Park
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        Gorky Park
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        • The park opened on 12 August 1928 on the site of the 1923 All-Russian Agricultural Exhibition, whose layout was designed by Konstantin Melnikov.
        • The park received Maxim Gorky's name in 1932.
        • On its very first day the park was visited by more than 100,000 people.
        • The main entrance arch was built in 1955 to a design by the architect Georgy Shchuko.
        • In the 1930s the park had an amusement parachute tower.
        • In spring 1943 captured German equipment was displayed here, including the first Tiger tank taken in working order.
        • From 1993 to 2014 a 50-tonne mock-up of the Buran spacecraft stood in the park.
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      5. 3
        🖼 Garage Museum of Contemporary Art
        🎟 ticket · the park around it is free
        A contemporary art museum in the former Vremena Goda restaurant of 1968, converted into a gallery.
        Contemporary art in a building by Rem Koolhaas
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        Garage Museum of Contemporary Art
        © Garage Museum of Contemporary Art · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Garage Museum of Contemporary Art
        © Sergey Norin from Moscow, Russia · CC BY 2.0
        • The museum was founded in 2008 by Dasha Zhukova and Roman Abramovich, and takes its name from its first address, Melnikov and Shukhov's Bakhmetevsky Bus Garage.
        • At the opening on 16 September 2008, Amy Winehouse gave a private concert.
        • In 2012 Garage operated in the park in a temporary pavilion by the Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, made of six-metre paper tubes.
        • The present building opened on 12 June 2015; the Vremena Goda restaurant was designed by Igor Vinogradsky and Igor Pyatkin.
        • During the reconstruction OMA kept the mosaic of a red-haired girl in foliage, which became one of the museum's symbols.
        • It has hosted retrospectives of Mark Rothko, Louise Bourgeois and Marina Abramović, as well as Yayoi Kusama's first exhibitions in Russia.
        • The museum has a library of contemporary art, opened in 2014 as the first public one in Russia.
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      7. 4
        ☕️ Garage Museum café
        ул. Крымский Вал, 9, стр. 32 (Парк Горького)
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        A bite before the second half of the route
        🍴 A bright café at the Garage museum: simple food from seasonal produce and breakfast all day. What to order: the soup of the day, scramble for breakfast, Napoleon cake, coffee.
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      9. 5
        🌳 Neskuchny Garden
        A hilly, wooded part of the park zone on the river bank, with ravines, bridges and 18th-century estate pavilions.
        Moscow's oldest park, with shady ravines
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        Neskuchny Garden
        © A.Savin · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Neskuchny Garden
        © Katia Sparks · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Neskuchny Garden
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        • The Neskuchnoye estate was founded in 1728 by Prince Nikita Trubetskoy; one version says its name came from his balls and entertainments.
        • In 1756 Prokofy Demidov built a palace here with a botanical garden of more than 2,000 plant species; it is now the Alexandrinsky Palace.
        • The garden took shape in 1826–1842, when Nicholas I's palace office bought up the Trubetskoy, Orlov and Golitsyn estates.
        • Under the Orlovs the garden had an open-air "aerial" theatre for 1,500 spectators.
        • Since 1990 the quiz show What? Where? When? has been filmed in the Hunting Lodge, an 18th-century rotunda.
        • In the 1990s the garden was a gathering place for Tolkien fans, who called it Eglador.
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      11. 6
        🌅 Andreevsky Bridge
        A 1907 arched railway bridge moved here in 1999–2000, with a covered glass gallery above the Moskva River.
        A pedestrian bridge with a view of the river
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        Andreevsky Bridge
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        Andreevsky Bridge
        © Юрий Д.К. · CC BY 4.0
        Andreevsky Bridge
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        • Officially the bridge is called Pushkinsky, but most maps and reference books list it as Andreevsky.
        • The old bridge's main arch, weighing about 1,500 tonnes, was brought here on three barges on 22 May 1999; the towing took an hour and a half.
        • The original bridge was built in 1905–1907 for the Moscow Little Ring Railway to a design by the engineer L. D. Proskuryakov and the architect A. N. Pomerantsev.
        • At first the bridge was called Sergievsky, in memory of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, and in 1917 it was renamed after the neighbouring Andreevsky Monastery.
        • The span of the crescent-shaped arch is 135 m.
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      13. 7
        🌅 Sparrow Hills viewpoint (Vorobyovy Gory)
        A platform on the high right bank with a panorama of the bend of the Moskva River, Luzhniki and the city centre.
        The finale, with a view of MSU and Luzhniki — best at sunset
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        Sparrow Hills viewpoint (Vorobyovy Gory)
        © Alexxx1979 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Sparrow Hills viewpoint (Vorobyovy Gory)
        © Alexxx1979 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Sparrow Hills viewpoint (Vorobyovy Gory)
        © Niklitov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The viewing platform was built in 1948 to a design by the architect Vitaly Dolganov.
        • From 1935 to 1999 the hills were officially called the Lenin Hills.
        • The slope rises up to 80 m above the river, a ledge of the Teplostanskaya Upland.
        • The second-to-last chapter of The Master and Margarita is called "On the Sparrow Hills".
        • Downstream from the platform stands a memorial marking the oath of Herzen and Ogarev.
        • The Moscow State University main building behind the platform is 240 m with its spire, and the central block has 36 floors.

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