🚶 Pryazhka Embankment and the Blok Monument

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A quiet little river on the edge of Kolomna by the house where Alexander Blok lived in his last years; since 2023 his monument has stood here.

The Pryazhka flows out of the Moika and into the Bolshaya Neva; it is 1.32 km long.
The river used to be called the Chukhonskaya; it got its name from the spinning barns moved here in 1738 because of the fire risk.
Blok lived in the house at the corner of the Pryazhka and Ofitserskaya Street from 1912 until his death.
The bronze monument to Blok by E. Rotanov and I. Kozhin was unveiled in 2023.
Between the Matisov and Bannyi bridges, walking paths run along the slopes.

Part of these routes