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      Moskovsky Prospekt: Stalinist Empire style

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 4.5 km + 🚇🍽 1📍 5 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      The Triumphal Gate, Victory Park, the House of Soviets and the monument to the defenders of Leningrad.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature
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      1. 1
        🏛 Moscow Triumphal Gate
        A cast-iron Doric gate honouring the victories in the wars of the 1820s, on Moskovsky Prospekt.
        A cast-iron gate from 1838
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        Moscow Triumphal Gate
        © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Moscow Triumphal Gate
        © Sav-1667 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The author is Vasily Stasov; when built, it was the world's largest structure assembled entirely of metal.
        • The gate took four years to build and was solemnly opened on 16 (28) October 1838.
        • Back in 1780 Catherine II had commissioned a design for the city gate from Charles Clérisseau, but there was no money for it.
        • The portico of 12 columns in two rows is 23.2 m high and 36 m wide.
        • In 1936 the gate was taken apart to widen the street; during the siege its cast-iron sections were used as anti-tank barriers.
        • The gate was reassembled on its original site in 1959.
      2. 🚇 from Moskovskie Vorota metro, 2 stops on the blue line to Park Pobedy
      3. 2
        🌳 Moscow Victory Park
        🚪 entrance from Kuznetsovskaya Street
        A big park with ponds, islands and avenues, laid out in 1945 in honour of Victory.
        The Alley of Heroes and the ponds
        🚪 exit to Basseynaya Street
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        Moscow Victory Park
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Moscow Victory Park
        © Bestalex · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Moscow Victory Park
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The park was first begun in 1939–1941 as a park of culture and rest, designed by Tatyana Dubyago.
        • During the siege the bodies of the dead were burned at a brick factory on the park's site — by some accounts up to 110,000 Leningraders.
        • The Admiralty Pond is a former factory pit into which the ashes of those cremated during the siege were dumped.
        • Victory Park was founded on 7 October 1945 and opened on 7 July 1946.
        • The “Glasses” pond is marked on pre-revolutionary maps — one of the park's oldest elements.
        • The propylaea of the main entrance appeared in 1957.
      4. 🚶 on foot
      5. 3
        🏛 House of Soviets
        Московский пр., 212
        The city's main monument of Stalinist Empire style
        The main facade of a centre that never was
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        House of Soviets
        © Mike1979 Russia · CC BY-SA 4.0
        House of Soviets
        © Mike1979 Russia · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The building was built in 1936–1941 by a team of architects led by Noy Trotsky.
        • The plan was to move the city government here, farther from the Finnish border, but after the war of 1939–1940 the border moved back and the plan was cancelled.
        • In September 1941 a defence strongpoint with an artillery observation post of the Leningrad Front was set up in the building.
        • The central portico of 14 columns is crowned with a sculptural group by N. V. Tomsky and the coat of arms of the RSFSR.
        • On the east facade a half-rotunda of the assembly hall for three thousand people juts out.
        • The monument to Lenin by Mikhail Anikushin was placed in front of the building in 1970, as planned in the 1936 project.
      6. 🚶 on foot
      7. 4
        ☕️ Sever-Metropol café-confectionery
        Московский пр., 195
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        Lunch by the metro
        🍴 A café-confectionery of the Petersburg Sever chain by Moskovskaya metro: classic cakes and pastries, coffee, breakfasts. What to order: an Esterházy pastry, “Kievsky” cake, a cappuccino or Turkish coffee.
      8. 🚶 on foot
      9. 5
        🖼 Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad
        пл. Победы
        🎟 partly ticketed · The monument is free; the underground hall is ticketed
        An underground memorial hall
        The underground Hall of Memory
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        Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad
        © SadPetzl · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad
        © Reshinna · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The authors are the architects Valentin Kamensky and Sergey Speransky and the sculptor Mikhail Anikushin, all participants in the defence of Leningrad.
        • The monument was built for the 30th anniversary of Victory partly with public donations — about 2 million rubles were collected.
        • The underground memorial hall opened on 23 February 1978 and is now part of the Museum of the History of the City.
        • The hall is surrounded by a broken ring 40 m across, faced with granite, with the inscription “900 days — 900 nights” on either side of the break.
        • The granite obelisk rises 48 metres.
        • 26 bronze figures of defenders face the Pulkovo Heights, the former front line.
        • Lines by Olga Berggolts were removed from the design for ideological reasons; Yury Voronov's words “O stones! Be steadfast like people!” were cast instead.

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