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      From Lomonosovskaya to the Neva and Kurakin's Dacha

      ⏱ 1 h 25 min🚶 3.1 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      Gardens on the site of the Farforovskoe Cemetery, a bronze Volodarsky by the Neva and a quiet park with a pond — a calm hour beyond Nevskaya Zastava.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so
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        🌳 Lomonosovsky Garden and the Chapel of the Transfiguration
        между пер. Матюшенко, ул. Бабушкина, ул. Полярников и Сомовым пер.
        A park right above Lomonosovskaya station, laid out on the site of the old Porcelain Cemetery; in the corner is a new wooden chapel.
        The metro exit leads straight into the garden. The wooden Chapel of the Transfiguration stands on the Matyushenko Lane side; remember that beneath the lawns is an old cemetery.
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        Lomonosovsky Garden and the Chapel of the Transfiguration
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Lomonosovsky Garden and the Chapel of the Transfiguration
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The garden was laid out on the site of the Saviour-Transfiguration Cemetery, which is linked with the Imperial Porcelain Factory.
        • On 21 December 1970 Lomonosovskaya metro station opened on the garden's grounds.
        • In 2008 the garden was fenced off and its trees cut down for a shopping centre, but in 2009 the construction was cancelled.
        • The Chapel of the Transfiguration was consecrated on 19 August 2015 in memory of a church lost during the building of the metro vestibule.
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        🌳 Vinogradovsky Square
        между ул. Бабушкина, пер. Матюшенко и пр. Обуховской Обороны
        🚪 entrance from Matyushenko Lane
        A park by the Porcelain Factory named in honour of the inventor of Russian porcelain; the Neva and Volodarsky Bridge are a stone's throw away.
        Cross Babushkina Street: it's the second half of the same cemetery. The park is cut by an overpass and tram tracks — go along Matyushenko to the Neva.
        🚪 exit to Prospekt Obukhovskoy Oborony
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        • The park was laid out in 1938 on the same part of the Porcelain Cemetery as Lomonosovsky Garden.
        • It used to be called “Sputnik” — after a cinema of 1960, which was demolished in January 2018.
        • Since 2013 it has borne the name of Dmitry Vinogradov, creator of Russian porcelain: his grave was probably in this cemetery.
        • The park is cut into four parts by Matyushenko Lane, Pryamoy Prospekt and a tram overpass.
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        🏛 Volodarsky Monument
        пр. Обуховской Обороны, сквер у Невы
        A bronze orator with a raised hand by the Neva — not far from where Commissar Volodarsky was shot in 1918.
        Volodarsky gives a speech with a raised hand — stand facing him from the avenue side. The pedestal is assembled from the bases of two monuments to Peter I.
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        • Press Commissar V. Volodarsky was shot on 20 June 1918 on the way to a rally at the Obukhov Plant.
        • The monument was unveiled on 21 June 1925; the authors are the sculptors M. G. Manizer and L. V. Blezé-Manizer and the architect V. A. Vitman.
        • The pedestal used the bases of two removed monuments to Peter I from the Admiralty Embankment.
        • The bronze was cast at the Krasny Vyborzhets plant.
        • The monument is an object of cultural heritage of federal significance.
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        🌳 Kurakina Dacha Park
        между пр. Обуховской Обороны, ул. Бабушкина, Леснозаводской ул. и бул. Красных Зорь
        A district park with a pond on the site of the Kurakin princes' country estate: quiet alleys between the avenue and the Neva.
        Entrance from Prospekt Obukhovskoy Oborony. Walk around the pond in a loop and come out onto Babushkina Street from the south side of the park.
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        Kurakina Dacha Park
        © MilanSPb · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Kurakina Dacha Park
        © Peterburg23 · CC BY 3.0
        • The park is named after the estate of the brothers Alexander and Alexei Kurakin.
        • In the middle of the park is a pond.
        • The Nicholas Orphans' Institute stood here, rebuilt in 1869 by the architect Ivan Johansen.
        • After the fires of 2006 and 2007 the institute building was demolished and rebuilt as a children's hospice.
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      9. 5
        🍽 PhaliKhinkali on Babushkina
        ул. Бабушкина, 62, корп. 2
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        If the walk replaces lunch — khinkali and kharcho here, opens at 11:00. In a hurry — walk on by: it's 10 minutes from here to Proletarskaya.
        🍴 A Georgian restaurant of the PhaliKhinkali chain with big portions and moderate prices. What to order: khinkali, pkhali, kharcho, chicken shashlik on a saj (Georgian griddle).

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