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      Sormovo: Meteors, a cathedral and the School of Barricades

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 3.5 km🍽 1📍 7 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      The factory side of Nizhny: the Meteor monument, the "Pyatak" of Old Sormovo, a Neo-Byzantine cathedral, the school where the barricades of 1905 were built and the Sormovo tanks.

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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.
        From Burevestnik metro about 10 minutes by bus or taxi to Burevestnik Square.
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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.
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        🏛 Sormovo "Pyatak"
        ул. Коминтерна, 166
        A square in the center of Old Sormovo that locals have long called the "Pyatak" (five-kopeck piece): in 2005 a huge 19th-century five-kopeck coin was set into the paving stones.
        The center of Old Sormovo: find the huge five-kopeck coin in the paving stones.
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      5. 3
        🍽 Graf Café on Kominterna
        ул. Коминтерна, 121
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        Lunch a couple of steps from the Pyatak.
        🍴 A café-restaurant in the center of Old Sormovo. What to order: "Alaska" pork, bruschetta with beef tongue, fried cauliflower.
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      7. 4
        🏛 Transfiguration Cathedral in Sormovo
        ул. Щербакова, 13А
        A Neo-Byzantine cathedral of the early 20th century, built for the workers of the Sormovo plants — the main vertical landmark of Old Sormovo.
        A Neo-Byzantine cathedral of the 1900s — the district's main vertical landmark.
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        Transfiguration Cathedral in Sormovo
        © User:Vmenkov · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The foundation was laid on 8 September 1900, and by 1905 the cathedral, designed by Pavel Malinovsky, was built.
        • The church was built in the Neo-Byzantine style for the fast-growing factory settlements.
        • In 1927 the cathedral was closed and its roof removed; it was returned to the Church only in 1990.
        • The restoration was fully completed in 2005.
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        🏛 School of Barricades
        ул. Коминтерна, 175
        A brick school of 1903 that became the headquarters of the Sormovo uprising in December 1905; today it houses a lyceum.
        The school that became the headquarters of the 1905 uprising: a high relief on the corner. It's a lyceum now — we look from outside.
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        • The building of the Alexander III parish school was completed in 1903 to a design by Pavel Malinovsky.
        • It was the largest parish school in Russia: in the early 20th century about 1,500 children studied there.
        • In December 1905 the school became the center of the armed uprising of Sormovo workers — hence the name.
        • The "School of Barricades" high relief on the corner of the building was installed in 1977.
        • Today the building houses Lyceum No. 82.
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        🏛 Church of Alexander Nevsky at the Krasnoye Sormovo plant
        ул. Баррикад, 3
        The first church of factory Sormovo, next to the plant's office; in Soviet times it housed the plant canteen.
        The first church of factory Sormovo, by the office of the Krasnoye Sormovo plant.
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        • The church was built in the 1880s to a design by Pavel Malinovsky, for the workers of the Sormovo plants.
        • Under the Soviets the church housed the canteen of the Krasnoye Sormovo plant.
        • The 43 m bell tower did not survive and was rebuilt only in the late 2010s.
        • The plant was founded in 1849 by Dmitry Benardaki, and as early as 1850 the steamship Lastochka was launched here.
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      13. 7
        🏛 Glory Square: the Sormovo tanks
        пл. Славы
        A memorial by the plant: the first Soviet tank of 1920 and a T-34-85 — both built at Krasnoye Sormovo.
        Finish at the tanks built at Krasnoye Sormovo.
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        • The composition of two tanks was unveiled on 9 May 1980, and the Eternal Flame was lit on 9 May 2020.
        • The first Soviet tank, "Fighter for Freedom Comrade Lenin", was produced in Sormovo in 1920.
        • The T-34-85 on the pedestal is also from Sormovo — the plant built these tanks during the war.
        • In 1904 the plant built Russia's first marine diesel tanker, the Vandal.

      ↩️ Getting back: From Glory Square by bus or taxi to Burevestnik metro (about 4 km, 15–20 min)

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