The Arctic Museum, Vladimirskaya and Kuznechny Market

⏱ 50 min🚶 1.2 km🍽 2📍 4 stops

🐢 A little — under 3 km

A former church that is now the Arctic Museum, Vladimir Cathedral, the delicacies of Kuznechny Market — and a hot lunch with a kids' room on Nevsky.

👶 With kids🍽 Food tour☔️ If it rains⏱ An hour or so

👶 3–6, 7–12 years · ✓ stroller-friendly

The Arctic Museum has ramps. A high porch with steps leads to Vladimir Cathedral, so it's better to see the cathedral from outside. There may be steps at the entrance of Kuznechny Market.

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🖼 Museum of the Arctic and Antarctic
ул. Марата, 24А
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A museum of polar explorers in a former Edinoverie church: expedition gear, ship models and stuffed animals.
The Papanin expedition's tent and a stuffed bear
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© Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
- The building is the former Edinoverie St Nicholas Church, built in 1820–1838 to a design by Avraam Melnikov.
- The museum was founded in 1930 and opened to visitors on 8 January 1937; its first director was the polar artist Nikolay Pinegin.
- Exhibit No. 1 in the acquisitions book is the Sh-2 amphibian aircraft that was aboard the ‘Chelyuskin’.
- Since 1938 the museum has kept the tent and personal belongings of the expedition of the first drifting station, ‘North Pole-1’.
- The museum's concept was developed by polar explorers, among them Otto Schmidt and Yuly Shokalsky.
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🏛 Vladimir Cathedral
Владимирский пр., 20
A five-domed cathedral with a freestanding bell tower on Vladimirskaya Square.
Across the square to the cathedral
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© Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
- The church was built in 1761–1769, and the separate bell tower was completed by Giacomo Quarenghi in 1791.
- In 1828 the funeral service for Arina Rodionovna, Pushkin's nanny, was held here.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky was a parishioner of the church in the last years of his life.
- The Baroque 18th-century iconostasis was moved here in 1808 from the church of the Anichkov Palace.
- In 1932 the church was closed and a factory, Lenmashuchyot, was set up in it; it was returned to the Church in 1989.
- Vladimirsky Prospekt and Vladimirskaya Square are named after the church.
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🧺 Kuznechny Market
Кузнечный пер., 3
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A snack and treats to take home
🍴 A covered market from the 1920s by Vladimirskaya metro: farm meat, dairy, pickles, honey, spices, fish. What to buy: curd cheese and sour cream at the farm stalls, honey and dried fruit with tastings, Ceylon tea in the shop on the second floor.
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🍽 Restaurant "Mama na Dache" on Nevsky · 🧸 play area
Невский пр., 88
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About 600 m from Kuznechny Market to Mama na dache at Nevsky 88: there's a kids' room — you can have a hot meal.
🍴 A cosy "country house" restaurant with a children's room and children's menu; on Sundays there are free cooking workshops with a nanny and an entertainer. What to order: for a toddler, semolina porridge or a meat patty with mash; for adults, draniki (potato pancakes) with sour cream and fried potatoes with mushrooms.