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      Victory Park and the House of Soviets

      ⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 2.6 km🍽 1📍 3 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      The Alley of Heroes and ponds of Moskovsky Victory Park, the grand facade of the House of Soviets and the Sever confectionery by the metro. Stalinist Empire style in all its sweep.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature⏱ An hour or so
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        🌳 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 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.
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        🏛 House of Soviets
        Московский пр., 212
        The city's main monument of Stalinist Empire style
        The main facade of the center 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.
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        ☕️ 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.

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