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      Petrogradka without postcards: Tukay, Volodin and Lakhtinskaya

      ⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 2.8 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      Old settlements of Petrogradka: a market, a Tatar poet by the mosque, a garden with a bronze playwright on a bench and a former almshouse church.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so
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        🧺 Sytny Market
        Сытнинская пл., 5
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        From Gorkovskaya along Kronverksky — 10 minutes. Coffee or a snack inside the market is a good start.
        🍴 The city's oldest market, in a building of 1913: meat, dairy and fruit rows, a café on the second floor. What to order: chicken Kyiv at the “180°” (Kotletnaya) stall, plov with flatbread at Plovnaya, farm cheeses and curd cheese.
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      3. 2
        🏛 Gabdulla Tukay Monument
        сквер Тукая, Зверинская ул. у Кронверкского пр.
        A monument to the Tatar poet in a little park on the Petrograd Side, where the Tatar Sloboda stood under Peter.
        Along Kronverksky to the corner of Zverinskaya — 5 minutes: Tukay stands in a small park.
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        • The monument was unveiled in 2006 — for the poet's 120th anniversary.
        • The sculptor is A. Ziyakaev, together with Ya. Neiman.
        • Tukay is often called the “Tatar Pushkin”.
        • The place was chosen deliberately: under Peter I the Tatar Sloboda was here.
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        🌳 Matveevsky Garden and the Volodin Monument
        Большая Пушкарская ул. / ул. Ленина
        A green courtyard of the Petrograd Side on the site of an old church; since 2022 a bronze Alexander Volodin has sat on a bench here.
        Along Bolshaya Pushkarskaya — 15 minutes through a block of old tenement houses. Volodin sits on a bench in the middle of the garden, and you can sit next to him.
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        Matveevsky Garden and the Volodin Monument
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Matveevsky Garden and the Volodin Monument
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The garden was laid out in the 1930s on the former grounds of the Matthew Church — hence the name.
        • Its official name is Kalininsky Garden, and its area is 1.24 hectares.
        • The monument to the playwright Alexander Volodin was unveiled in November 2022: he sits on a bronze bench.
        • Volodin lived for many years on Bolshaya Pushkarskaya Street.
        • On the Kronverkskaya and Bolshaya Pushkarskaya side there is a playground.
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        🏛 Church of “Joy of All Who Sorrow” on Lakhtinskaya Street
        Лахтинская ул., 12
        A church at a former shelter for disabled children: in Soviet times its facade was “straightened”, and in the 2000s the church was returned.
        Along Lenina Street and Lakhtinskaya — No. 12. Opposite, at No. 17, is another church, St Xenia of Petersburg.
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        Church of “Joy of All Who Sorrow” on Lakhtinskaya Street
        © Kaganer · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • Built in 1899–1902 to a design by Pyotr Mayer at a shelter for disabled and paralysed children.
        • The building was originally in the Russian style, with onion domes.
        • In 1927 the church was closed, and in 1929 its facade was rebuilt in the classical style and a dome removed.
        • In the late 1980s the building stood abandoned; in the early 2000s it was restored and the church reopened.

      ↩️ Getting back: To Petrogradskaya — 10 minutes along Lakhtinskaya and Bolshoy Prospekt.

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