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      Sokolniki: the fountain, the rose garden and a Georgian café

      ⏱ 55 min🚶 500 m🍽 1📍 3 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      Avenues of the old park from Fountain Square, a rose garden with themed gardens and a Georgian café like in old Tbilisi. A calm hour in the woods.

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

      Paved avenues; near the Putyayevo Ponds, packed earth. The Sokolniki station on the red line has no lift; there are lifts at Sokolniki on the Big Circle Line.

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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 fan 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.
        In bloom 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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