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      Divo Ostrova rides and Yelagin squirrels

      ⏱ 5 h🚶 3.7 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      Rides on Krestovsky Island, lunch and a walk around Yelagin Island with its squirrels, all the way to the Strelka with its lions.

      👶 With kids🌳 Parks and nature
      👶 3–6, 7–12 years · ✓ stroller-friendly

      Krestovsky Ostrov station has no lift — come by taxi or bus with a stroller. The parks have paved paths, and the 2nd Yelagin Bridge is pedestrian-only, with no stairs.

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        ✨ Divo Ostrov amusement park
        Крестовский пр., 21
        🎟 partly ticketed · Free entry; rides are ticketed
        Open from spring to autumn
        In October the park is open on weekends only and only in dry weather — check the schedule on the park's website in the morning. Arrive at opening: the first hour is almost queue-free. Family and extreme rides have height limits — measure your child beforehand; there is a kids' zone for younger ones.
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        Divo Ostrov amusement park
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Divo Ostrov amusement park
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Divo Ostrov amusement park
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The park opened in May 2003 with 17 rides.
        • In 2004 Divo Ostrov won the Crystal Wheel award as Russia's best amusement park.
        • The park is on the grounds of Primorsky Victory Park, next to Krestovsky Ostrov metro station.
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        ☕️ Ostrov café on Yelagin Island
        ЦПКиО, Елагин остров, 4, лит. Т
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        A 10-minute walk over the 2nd Yelagin Bridge. A warm hall after windy Krestovsky — lunch and a toilet; strollers fit inside.
        🍴 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 (Central Park of Culture and Rest)
        🎟 partly ticketed · Free entry on weekdays; ticketed on weekends and holidays
        Boats, squirrels, bicycles
        The squirrels take unsalted nuts from your palm — bring a bag of hazelnuts. There are benches and shade along the Maslyany Meadow; almost no people on weekday mornings.
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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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        🌅 Yelagin Island Spit
        🎟 partly ticketed · On weekdays entry to the island is free, on weekends it is ticketed
        The best sunsets over the gulf
        The finish at the stone lions with a view of the bay. From here it is ~2.5 km to the metro — if you are tired, it is easier to call a taxi to the exit by the 3rd Yelagin Bridge.
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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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