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      Avtozavod: Sotsgorod and the GAZ Museum

      ⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 3.5 km + 🚇🍽 1📍 6 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      A town built around a factory: the GAZ museum with Volgas and Gazelles, Stalinist Sotsgorod, the "radius" house, the Palace of Culture and the park.

      🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre
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        🖼 GAZ History Museum
        просп. Ленина, 95
        🎟 ticket
        The museum of the Gorky Automobile Plant: the history of the plant and GAZ vehicles of different years — from Volgas to Gazelles.
        From Avtozavodskaya metro about 7 minutes on foot. The museum is closed on Friday.
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        GAZ History Museum
        © Caughtin16k · CC0
        • The museum opened on 10 October 1965 on the initiative of the plant's veterans and management.
        • The collection has more than 40 thousand items.
        • In 1996 the museum was included in the catalog of European automobile museums.
      2. 🚇 metro from Avtozavodskaya to Kirovskaya (2 stops), then about 7 min on foot
      3. 2
        🚶 Sotsgorod
        пр. Октября
        A Stalinist "garden city" at the car plant: grand 1930s buildings, a department store, the Mir cinema and wide avenues.
        The grand blocks of the 1930s on Oktyabrya Avenue.
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        • Construction of Sotsgorod began on 16 May 1930 with the laying of the first house.
        • The first stage was the "pyatak": five four-story blocks joined by passages on the second floor.
        • It was conceived as a "garden city" with zoning: factory, transport, greenery and housing kept separate.
        • At first commune houses with shared kitchens were built: workers' leisure was meant to go to sport, theater and cinema.
        • From 1936 standard building gave way to "Stalinist Empire" style — that's how the department store, the Mir cinema and the "radius house" appeared.
      4. 🚶 on foot
      5. 3
        🏛 The "Radius" House
        Молодёжный просп., 32
        An arc-shaped building of 1935 that follows the curve of Molodyozhny Prospekt — one of the most striking buildings in Sotsgorod.
        The arc-shaped house on Molodyozhny Prospekt — best seen from the other side of the avenue.
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        The "Radius" House
        © Алексей Белобородов · CC BY-SA 3.0
      6. 🚶 on foot
      7. 4
        🍽 Soyuz Restaurant · 🧸 play area
        Молодёжный просп., 4А
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        Lunch by Kiselyov Square; there's a children's room.
        🍴 A restaurant in Sotsgorod by the Palace of Culture, with a children's room and kids' menu. What to order: a burger with slow-cooked beef, Olivier salad with tongue, a salad with stracciatella.
      8. 🚶 on foot
      9. 5
        🏛 GAZ Palace of Culture
        ул. Героя Юрия Смирнова, 12
        The monumental palace of culture of the car plant on Kiselyov Square — the grand center of Sotsgorod.
        The car plant's Palace of Culture — the grand center of Sotsgorod.
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        GAZ Palace of Culture
        © Bestalex · CC BY-SA 4.0
        GAZ Palace of Culture
        © Алексей Трефилов · CC BY-SA 4.0
      10. 🚶 on foot
      11. 6
        🌳 Avtozavodsky Park
        за Дворцом культуры ГАЗ, у м. «Парк культуры»
        🚪 entrance from Kiselyov Square
        A park of the 1930s behind the Palace of Culture: ponds, alleys and a fountain built by the plant itself.
        Ponds, alleys and the plant's fountain of 1959.
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        Avtozavodsky Park
        © Leha-11 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The park was founded in 1935 and covers almost 70 hectares, of which 12.5 hectares are two ponds.
        • The park's boundaries were set in the 1931 plan of the Avtozavodsky district, on marshy ground.
        • Work was interrupted by the war and resumed in 1944.
        • The fountain was built in 1959 by the GAZ press shop.

      ↩️ Getting back: Park Kultury metro is right by the park: to Gorkovskaya about 25 min without changes

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