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      With a child: Limpopo and Sormovsky Park

      ⏱ 5 h🚶 3 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      Russia's first private zoo with a hands-on "Russian Village", lunch by the park and big Sormovsky Park with a lake, pines and rides.

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

      The zoo and the park have wide paths. From Burevestnik metro to the zoo is about 2.5 km: easier by bus or taxi.

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        ✨ Limpopo Zoo
        ул. Ярошенко, 7Г
        🚪 entrance from Yaroshenko Street
        🎟 ticket
        Russia's first private zoo on the edge of Sormovsky Park: more than two hundred species of animals and a hands-on "Russian Village".
        Opens at 9:00. Get from Burevestnik metro to Sormovsky Park by bus or taxi. Start with the "Russian Village" — you can feed the animals there.
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        • Limpopo was founded in 2003 by Vladimir Gerasichkin — it is the first private zoo in Russia.
        • The collection has about 230 species — over 1,300 animals.
        • The zoo covers 7.1 hectares on two sites.
        • Since 2009 the petting zoo "Russian Village" has operated, styled as a village yard.
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        🍽 Yerema Restaurant
        Юбилейный бул., 31Б
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        Lunch at the park entrance: fish soup, hand-chopped beefsteak, kids' menu.
        🍴 Russian cuisine at the entrance to Sormovsky Park, with a kids' menu. What to order: hand-chopped beefsteak with pickled lingonberries, boyar fish soup, julienne.
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        🌳 Sormovsky Park
        Юбилейный бул.
        🚪 entrance from Yubileyny Boulevard
        A huge park of the 1930s on the site of the Daryinsky pine forest: pines, a lake, rides and the Krasnoye Sormovo Palace of Culture at the entrance.
        Pine-lined alleys, a lake and rides — in the cold season some of the carousels may not be running.
        🚪 exit to Engels Street
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        Sormovsky Park
        © Алексей Белобородов · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The park was conceived in the 1920s together with the Palace of Culture of the Krasnoye Sormovo plant, and the final design was adopted in 1934.
        • The park covers 146 hectares.
        • Relict pines of the former Daryinsky forest, an oak grove and lime alleys survive here.
        • By the lake stands a 1970 stele "To the Glorious Memory of the Sormovo Revolutionaries" — on the site of secret workers' meetings.
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        🏛 Meteor monument on Burevestnik Square
        пл. Буревестника
        A hydrofoil on a pedestal — in honor of the Sormovo designers of the fast Meteors and Raketas.
        Finish at the Meteor on Burevestnik Square — a real hydrofoil.
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        Meteor monument on Burevestnik Square
        © Кир · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The Meteors were developed by the Gorky Central Design Bureau for hydrofoil ships under Rostislav Alexeyev.
        • The first Meteor returned to Gorky from Feodosia on 14 May 1960.
        • From 1961 to 1999 more than 400 Meteors were built — the most numerous series of hydrofoil ships in the world.
        • At the start of Yubileyny Boulevard stands a monument to Rostislav Alexeyev himself, opened in 2009.

      ↩️ Getting back: From Burevestnik Square by bus or taxi to Burevestnik metro (about 3 km, 10–15 min)

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