Piskaryovka: the Peace Bell and a Submarine Conning Tower

⏱ 1 h 35 min🚶 2.6 km🍽 0📍 3 stops

🐢 A little — under 3 km

Unexpected Piskaryovka: two parks, a Japanese bell in memory of Nagasaki and a submarine fleet museum with a real conning tower in the yard.

👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre⏱ An hour or so

👶 7–12, 13+ years · ✓ stroller-friendly

Steps lead up to Piskaryovka platform. The park paths are even, and the museum is entered from the street.

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🌳 Pioneer Park
Пискарёвский пр. / Бестужевская ул.
A district park of 1968 in Piskaryovka with a playground on the site of the Pioneer assembly ground.
From Piskaryovka platform (8–10 minutes by suburban train from Finlyandsky Station) — 10 minutes along Piskaryovsky Prospekt. The park has a big playground.
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- The name comes from the House of Pioneers on Mechnikov Prospekt, which operated nearby from 1973.
- The park and the neighbouring Sakharov Park were laid out on the lands of Prince Abamelek-Lazarev's former dacha.
- The park covers 12 hectares.
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🏛 Peace Bell in Sakharov Park
парк Академика Сахарова, Бестужевская ул.
The Japanese “Nagasaki Bell”, a memorial to the victims of the atomic bombings, given to the city in 1988.
Across Bestuzhevskaya Street, in Sakharov Park. In the southeastern corner of the park is a monument to the victims of radiation accidents.
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- The bell was installed on 9 August 1988 — on the 43rd anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki.
- The author is the Japanese sculptor Matsuoka Kuniichi.
- It is a gift in return: in Nagasaki's Peace Park stands the sculpture “Peace” by Mikhail Anikushin.
- In the south-eastern part of the park, a monument to the victims of radiation accidents and disasters has stood since 2003.
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🖼 Marinesko Museum of the History of the Submarine Forces
Кондратьевский пр., 83, корп. 1
🎟 ticket
The only state museum of the submarine fleet: models of boats, torpedoes, the hatch of a nuclear submarine and a submarine conning tower in the yard.
15 minutes along Bestuzhevskaya to the west. The conning tower of B-107 stands at the entrance — you can see it without a ticket. Inside are model boats and a hatch from a nuclear submarine; allow 40 minutes for the visit.
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- The museum opened on 27 October 1997 — nearby is the Bogoslovskoe Cemetery, where Alexander Marinesko is buried.
- In 1998 the conning tower of the diesel submarine B-107, Project 641, was placed by the museum.
- A bulkhead hatch from the nuclear submarine K-385 is built into the hall wall.
- The collection holds about 13,500 items — more than half of them in storage.
- The museum's second site is a centre for the history of radiation accident clean-up.

↩️ Getting back: Back to Piskaryovka platform — about 20 minutes on foot. To Ploshchad Lenina metro it's easier by bus along Kondratyevsky — look up the number in Yandex Maps.