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      Nikolo-Ugreshsky Monastery and the quarry in Dzerzhinsky

      ⏱ 5 h 30 min🚶 2.1 km + 🚌🍽 3📍 5 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      Half a day in Dzerzhinsky: the monastery of Dmitry Donskoy with its 93-metre bell tower, pirozhki in the refectory and a view over the Belopeschany quarry.

      👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🚆 Out of town
      👶 3–6, 7–12 years · ✓ stroller-friendly

      The metro and bus are low-floor; the monastery grounds have level asphalt paths. A steep staircase leads to the viewpoint — better to leave the stroller at the top by the road.

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      Getting there
      🏛 Kotelniki Metro Station
      Котельники, Новорязанское ш.
      Start at the metro; from here buses 470 and 347 go to the monastery, and from Lyublino 305 (October 2026 timetable)
      🚌 by bus to St Nicholas Ugreshsky Monastery
      Bus 470 from Kotelniki metro to “Ploshchad Svyatitelya Nikolaya”, every 15 min, ≈22 min; or 347 (every half hour)
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        🏛 St Nicholas Ugreshsky Monastery
        Дзержинский, пл. Святителя Николая, 1
        A monastery founded by Dmitry Donskoy in 1380: the 93-metre bell tower, the “Ugresha candle”, the Transfiguration Cathedral for 7,000 people, a pond and the Palestine Wall.
        Open daily 6:00–20:00, free entry, bags are checked at the entrance. The Transfiguration Cathedral, the 1761 bell tower and a pond; no photography in the churches, women: headscarf
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        St Nicholas Ugreshsky Monastery
        © Dengerouzz · CC BY-SA 4.0
        St Nicholas Ugreshsky Monastery
        © Курнавин · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • According to legend, on seeing the icon of St Nicholas the Wonderworker here, Dmitry Donskoy said: “This whole ugresha (dear place) is my heart”, hence the name Ugresha.
        • In 1521 the monastery was burned to the ground during the Crimean Khan Mehmed I Giray's raid on Moscow.
        • On 11 July 1668, during Tsar Alexey Mikhailovich's “Ugresha pilgrimage”, three patriarchs were here at once: of Alexandria, Antioch and Moscow.
        • After the suppression of the Streltsy revolt, the monastery became one of the places of imprisonment for the rebel streltsy.
        • In 1874–1875 the philosopher Konstantin Leontiev was a novice at the monastery.
        • In the war the pond was covered with boards and logs with dummy buildings, and the domes were removed to mislead German pilots.
        • The first liturgy here since the 1920s was served on 19 December 1990, and in 1991 the monastery was returned to the Church.
      2. 🚶 on foot
      3. 2
        ☕️ Refectory of the St Nicholas Ugreshsky Monastery
        Дзержинский, пл. Святителя Николая, 1
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        Lunch at the monastery gates, daily 9:00–19:00. The pirozhki sell out by lunchtime — come before two
        🍴 The monastery canteen by the gates with a Lenten and blini menu, inexpensive. What to order: pirozhki (small pies), blini, soup of the day.
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        🌅 Viewpoint over the Belopeschany Quarry
        Дзержинский, у Угрешской ул.
        A wooden platform above a former sand quarry turned into a lake with a beach and a wakeboard park.
        20 minutes on foot through town. From above you see the lake in the former quarry, with water skiing in summer and a ski slope in winter
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        Viewpoint over the Belopeschany Quarry
        © Slava Vishnyakov · CC BY 3.0
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        ☕️ Teplee (“Warmer”) Coffee Shop
        Дзержинский, Угрешская ул., 22
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        Coffee and dessert in the neighbouring building, daily 8:00–22:00
        🍴 A bright coffee shop with breakfast all day and desserts. What to order: eggs Benedict with salmon, signature coffee, a dessert from the display case.
      8. 🚶 on foot
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        🍽 Batono Jonny restaurant in Dzerzhinsky · 🧸 play area
        Дзержинский, Лесная ул., 4
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        “Batono Johnny” is 5 minutes from the “Teplee” coffee shop, on the way to the stop. A kids’ room without an animator, and a kids’ menu. Opens at 12:00; on weekend evenings there are sometimes banquets, daytime is calmer.
        🍴 A Georgian restaurant five minutes from the viewpoint over the quarry: a kids' play room (no entertainer), a kids' menu and a summer terrace. Try: khinkali (Georgian dumplings), khachapuri, kharcho, homemade lemonades; for kids, the kids' menu.

      ↩️ Getting back: ≈20 min on foot to the “Ploshchad Svyatitelya Nikolaya” stop, then buses 470 (every 15 min) and 347 (every half hour) to Kotelniki metro, ≈30 min (October 2026 timetable)

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