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      Sokolniki: the rose garden and the ponds

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 5 km🍽 2📍 6 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      A large green park with rentals, radial avenues and quiet ponds deep inside.

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

      Asphalt avenues, and packed earth by the Putyayevo ponds. Sokolniki station on the red line has no lift; there are lifts at Sokolniki on the Big Circle Line.

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        🏛 Main entrance to Sokolniki
        The arched entrance complex of the park at Sokolnicheskaya Square, from which a wide avenue leads deep into the forest.
        Start at Sokolniki metro
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        Main entrance to Sokolniki
        © Qweasdqwe · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Main entrance to Sokolniki
        © Gennady Grachev from Moscow, Russia · CC BY 2.0
        • The name comes from sokolniki, falconers who trained hunting birds: Ivan the Terrible and Alexei Mikhailovich hunted here.
        • In 1878 the city bought the Sokolnichya and Olenya groves and set up a public park.
        • In 2019 a memorial sign was placed at the main entrance to Mayor Sergei Tretyakov, thanks to whom Sokolniki became a city park.
        • In 1931 Sokolniki was declared a park of culture and leisure; until 1937 it bore the name of People's Commissar Andrei Bubnov.
        • The park covers 516 hectares and borders Losiny Ostrov to the north.
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        🍽 Kolbasoff restaurant in Sokolniki · 🧸 play area
        Русаковская ул., 31
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        Kolbasoff is 3 minutes from the main entrance, on the metro side: drop in at the start or on the way back. The play area is small and has no entertainer — you'll have to watch your child yourself. Best to come in the daytime: it opens at 12:00 and is noisy in the evening.
        🍴 A restaurant-brewpub by Sokolniki metro with a small kids' play room (no entertainer, parents keep an eye on the kids) and a kids' menu; calm by day, noisy in the evening. Try: Bavarian sausages with cabbage, wings, tom yum; for kids, dishes from the kids' menu.
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        🌳 Fountain Square in Sokolniki
        🚪 main entrance from Sokolnicheskaya Square
        A round square with a large fountain, from which the main clearings of the old park radiate like rays.
        The heart of the park, where the avenues radiate out
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        Fountain Square in Sokolniki
        © Alina Vozna · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • Eight avenues fan out from the Sokolniki Circle, including Pesochnaya, the Luchevye and the Maysky clearings.
        • The fan layout of the clearings was cut in the 1840s.
        • The Maysky clearing was cut as early as Peter I, who held festivities here.
        • In 1883 a wooden rotunda was put up on the circle, where music played on holidays and later concerts and even operas were given.
        • In 1959 the American National Exhibition opened nearby, where Khrushchev and Nixon held the famous "kitchen debate".
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        ☕️ Green Park café in Sokolniki
        Песочная аллея, 2 (парк Сокольники)
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        Lunch or ice cream
        🍴 The Georgian café Green Park in Sokolniki: the interior feels like old Tbilisi, and next to the café is a shop with jam and kozinaki (nut brittle). What to order: shashlik, crispy aubergine salad, kharcho (beef and rice soup).
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        🌳 Rose Garden in Sokolniki
        A rose garden from 1957 with thousands of rose bushes, themed gardens, fountains and benches in the middle of a forest park.
        Blooms from June to September
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        Rose Garden in Sokolniki
        © Lesless · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The rose garden opened in 1957 for the 6th World Festival of Youth and Students; its author was the theatre designer Anna Shukshina.
        • Shukshina conceived it as a "garden of continuous bloom".
        • In 1957 more than 100 varieties of roses grew here, among them Gloria and Iceberg.
        • After the decline of the 1990s the rose garden was restored and reopened in 2006.
        • In the 2019 reconstruction 36 new varieties were planted, including the tea roses Vivaldi and Queen Elizabeth.
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        🌳 Putyayevsky Ponds
        A chain of forest ponds deep in Sokolniki, surrounded by old trees and paths.
        The forest part of the park, squirrels and ducks
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        Putyayevsky Ponds
        © S.Marchenko · CC BY 4.0
        Putyayevsky Ponds
        © Sergey Ashmarin · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • It is a cascade of six ponds with a total area of 6.1 hectares on the Putyayevsky stream, a tributary of the Yauza.
        • The ponds have folk names: Snake Pond, Devil's and Walrus; the Devil's is named after an early 20th-century bridge.
        • Winter swimming enthusiasts gather at Walrus Pond.
        • Beyond the ponds is a maze of five intersecting circular paths, laid out in the 1840s.

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