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      Sunset on the reclaimed land and dinner by the bay

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

      The new embankment on the edge of Vasilyevsky — the closest place to the metro where the sun sets into the bay; after sunset the WHSD and Lakhta Center light up. Dinner at a café on Morskaya Embankment.

      🌙 Evening🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre
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        🏛 Obelisk to the Executed Decembrists
        Уральская ул., сад Декабристов
        A 1939 granite obelisk on the island where, by tradition, five executed Decembrists were secretly buried.
        7 minutes from Primorskaya metro across the Smolenka. From here along the river west, toward the bay
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        Obelisk to the Executed Decembrists
        © Peterburg23 · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The island was called Golodai and took the Decembrists' name in 1926, for the centenary of the execution of five leaders of the uprising.
        • Excavations in 1917 found the remains of several people here: the place had been used to bury suicides.
        • A foundation stone was laid in 1926, and in 1939 an obelisk of black polished granite to a design by V. N. Bobrov.
        • The local historian Andrei Chernov concluded in the 1980s that the grave lay on the vanished island of Gonoropulo, which merged with Golodai.
        • According to another version, the Decembrists were buried on the grounds of today's Almaz plant, where they also have a monument.
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        🌳 Linear Park on the Reclaimed Land
        Морская наб., намыв В.О.
        A new embankment on the reclaimed land of the "Marine Façade" with views of the gulf, the WHSD and Lakhta Center.
        Come half an hour before sunset; after it, Lakhta Center and the spans of the WHSD light up opposite
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        • Reclamation of the "Marine Façade" began in 2006: the rights to reclaim 476 hectares in the Neva Bay were then sold to Terra Nova.
        • The Linear Park of over 20 hectares unites several squares and is being built in stages.
        • In May 2025 a light-and-music fountain started working in the park — a 32.8×24.8 m basin, jets up to 9 m, more than 200 lights.
        • The fountain stands in Alexander Volodin Square, where the Smolenka flows into the gulf.
        • Because of the reclamation and the WHSD, the old Morskaya Embankment ended up far from the water.
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        🏛 Cruiser Kirov Memorial
        Морская наб., Гавань
        The real wheelhouse, gun turrets, anchors and propellers of the cruiser Kirov, which defended Leningrad.
        The wheelhouse and gun turrets of the cruiser — especially striking in silhouette against the evening sky
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        Cruiser Kirov Memorial
        © DwightMengel · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Cruiser Kirov Memorial
        © Lord Mountbatten · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The memorial opened on 30 September 1990; the architects M. Kruglov, V. Sokolov, A. Korolkov and V. Reppo worked on it.
        • The cruiser Kirov served from 1938 to 1974 and carried nine 180-mm guns.
        • During the war the cruiser fired in action more than 200 times and repelled over forty air raids on Leningrad.
        • In February 1943 the Kirov was awarded the Order of the Red Banner.
        • For the 75th anniversary of Victory the monument was restored by Baltic Shipyard staff.
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        🍽 Vinegret
        Морская наб., 9
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        Dinner by the bay: until 23:00 on weekdays, until midnight on Friday and Saturday
        🍴 A Russian-cuisine café by the gulf. What to order: draniki (potato pancakes) with sour cream, fish, homemade liqueurs, pastries.

      ↩️ Getting back: To Primorskaya metro about 2 km — 25 minutes on foot or by taxi.

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