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      Yelagin Island and Sunset on the Spit

      ⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 2.2 km🍽 1📍 3 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      Boats and squirrels of Yelagin Island, lunch on a veranda and a walk out to the Spit of the island with a view of the bay. The best place for sunset.

      👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature✨ New places⏱ An hour or so
      👶 7–12, 13+ years · ✓ stroller-friendly

      The islands and the 300th Anniversary Park are flat. Yacht Bridge is very high with no lifts — the climb is long; you can take a taxi across to the 300th Anniversary Park. Strollers aren't allowed on the Lakhta observation deck; they're left on the 3rd floor. In the Yelagin palace only the 1st floor is accessible with a stroller.

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        🌳 Yelagin Island (Central Park of Culture and Rest)
        🎟 partly ticketed · Free entry on weekdays; ticketed on weekends and holidays
        Boats, squirrels, bicycles
        Boats and squirrels
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        Yelagin Island (Central Park of Culture and Rest)
        © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Yelagin Island (Central Park of Culture and Rest)
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Yelagin Island (Central Park of Culture and Rest)
        © Александр Байдуков · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The island's Finnish name is Mistulansaari, its old Russian one Mishin Island.
        • Peter I gave the island to Shafirov in 1709, and the name stuck to Ivan Yelagin, who owned it from 1777.
        • In 1817 the island was bought for the treasury for 350,000 rubles for the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna.
        • The island's nine ponds cover 20 ha — a fifth of its area.
        • From 1700 to 1878 the island was flooded 134 times.
        • The Central Park of Culture and Rest opened in 1932, and was given Kirov's name in 1934.
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        ☕️ Ostrov café on Yelagin Island
        ЦПКиО, Елагин остров, 4, лит. Т
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        Lunch with a veranda
        🍴 The oldest café on Yelagin Island (since 2002), not far from the entrance by the 2nd Yelagin Bridge, with a terrace in summer. What to order: aubergine salad, draniki, chicken shashlik, khachapuri.
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        🌅 Yelagin Island Spit
        🎟 partly ticketed · On weekdays entry to the island is free, on weekends it is ticketed
        The best sunsets over the gulf
        A view of the bay
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        Yelagin Island Spit
        © Germash19 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Yelagin Island Spit
        © Purpleabyss · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The terrace on the western cape with a light pink granite parapet was built in the 1920s to a design by L. A. Ilyin.
        • The stone lions on the parapet were moved from the Stroganov dacha.
        • During the Crimean War an artillery battery stood on the spit.
        • The cape is man-made — one of the highest parts of the island, yet it rises only a little over 3 metres above the sea.

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