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      Pines, Lake Bezdonnoye and the beaches of Serebryany Bor

      ⏱ 1 h 30 min🚶 3.3 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      A pine forest on an island, a forest lake with clear water and sandy beaches along the channels. You can finish with lunch on a restaurant veranda by the water.

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        🌳 Serebryany Bor
        🚪 entrance from Tamanskaya Street
        A forested island in a bend of the Moskva River, with pine woods, beaches, bays and eco-trails.
        From the trolleybus stop into the forest
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        Serebryany Bor
        © Горбунова М.С. · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Serebryany Bor
        © Massalim / Fr Maxim Massalitin · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Serebryany Bor
        © Shuvaev · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Serebryany Bor
        © Горбунова М.С. · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • Serebryany Bor became an island in 1937, when the Khoroshevo straightening canal was dug.
        • The current name was given by a dacha settlement of the early 20th century, while the "Silver Ravine" is mentioned as early as a 17th-century boundary charter.
        • From the 16th century until 1917 the forest belonged to the royal family or their courtiers; in the 19th century the Fanagoriysky Regiment was stationed here.
        • In 1991 Serebryany Bor was declared a natural monument.
        • About 400 species of vascular plants grow here, 40 of them tree species.
        • Summer Serebryany Bor with its boat stations was described by Yuri Trifonov in the novella The Students.
      2. 🚶 on foot
      3. 2
        🌳 Lake Bezdonnoe (Bottomless Lake)
        A small lake in the pine forest of Serebryany Bor: a former oxbow that was enlarged in the 1950s and connected to the Moskva River, so it is now a bay of the river.
        A forest lake with clear water
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        Lake Bezdonnoe (Bottomless Lake)
        © Lumaca · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Lake Bezdonnoe (Bottomless Lake)
        © Lumaca · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Lake Bezdonnoe (Bottomless Lake)
        © Софья Тихонова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • Despite its name, the lake is about 3 m deep.
        • It used to be a small oxbow lake among marshes; in the 1950s it was joined to the Moskva River, and it is now a bay.
        • The water body covers 16–17 hectares: two reaches linked by channels, the main one 11 hectares.
        • According to legends, springs gush on the bottom and treasure and old silver mines are hidden there, but there is no documentary evidence for this.
        • The eco-trail By Lake Bezdonnoe, about 1,300 m long, opened in 2007.
      4. 🚶 on foot
      5. 3
        🌳 Serebryany Bor beaches
        Sandy beaches along the channels and bays of the Moskva River in a pine forest.
        Swimming in summer, a walk along the water in autumn
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        • Muscovites began going to Serebryany Bor to swim in large numbers after the war, when the island became a popular place to relax.
        • The island has three beaches, one of them nudist.
        • In winter an ice rink is flooded at Beach No. 2.
        • In winter Epiphany ice-holes are set up on Lake Bezdonnoe.
      6. 🚶 on foot
      7. 4
        🍽 Pomestye-Park restaurant
        Таманская ул., вл. 46, стр. 1
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        Lunch in the fresh air
        🍴 A restaurant in the pine forest on the shore, with a summer terrace and its own beach. What to order: chicken tabaka, grilled shashlik, roast beef steak, pizza.

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