Submarine, icebreaker and the Naval Museum

⏱ 5 h🚶 4.5 km🍽 1📍 4 stops

🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

Maritime Petersburg for young captains: you can touch everything.

👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture

👶 7–12, 13+ years · ✗ hard with a stroller

The Krasin and the submarine Narodovolets have steep gangways and narrow hatches — you can’t manage with a stroller or a toddler in your arms. The Naval Museum is accessible.

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🖼 Central Naval Museum
пл. Труда, 5 (Крюковы казармы)
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One of the oldest military museums in the world, in restored barracks by the Kryukov Canal.
Peter’s little boat and ship models
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© Sergpavl · CC BY-SA 4.0
- The museum traces its history to Peter's Model Chamber, first mentioned in a letter from Peter I in January 1709.
- The collection has more than 700,000 items, including over 2,000 ship models.
- The main relic is Peter I's boat, the "grandfather of the Russian fleet".
- Exhibits include the Naval Regulations of 1720 and bronze cannons cast by Semyon Chugunkin in 1618.
- From 1939 the museum occupied the Exchange building, and in April 2013 it moved into the restored Kryukov Barracks.
- The museum has branches, including the cruiser Aurora — the USSR's first museum ship (since 1956).
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🖼 Icebreaker Krasin
наб. Лейтенанта Шмидта, у 23-й линии
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You can go down into the engine room
The icebreaker that saved Nobile’s expedition
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© Александровы АГ · CC BY-SA 4.0
© Александровы АГ · CC BY-SA 4.0
- The icebreaker was built in 1916–1917 in Newcastle, England, at the Armstrong Whitworth yard, under the name ‘Svyatogor’.
- The design was an improved version of Makarov's ‘Yermak’, with engines of 10,000 horsepower.
- The engineer and future writer Yevgeny Zamyatin took part in assembling the ship in England.
- In 1918 the icebreaker was sunk in the Northern Dvina to block the interventionists, but in 1920 they took it away to Britain.
- In 1927 the icebreaker was named after Leonid Krasin, the diplomat who secured the ship's purchase back from England.
- In the war the Krasin passed through the Panama Canal and went to the Arctic as part of the northern convoy PQ-15.
- In the film “The Red Tent” (1969) the Krasin was played by another icebreaker, the ‘Sibiryakov’.
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🖼 Submarine D-2 Narodovolets
Шкиперский проток, 10
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One of the first Soviet submarines, raised ashore; you can walk through its compartments.
Inside a real submarine
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- The submarine was laid down on 5 March 1927 at the Baltic Shipyard and launched on 19 May 1929.
- In 1933 Narodovolets went through the White Sea–Baltic Canal and joined the Northern Fleet.
- On 19 October 1942 D-2 torpedoed and badly damaged the ferry Deutschland, which sailed between Sassnitz and Trelleborg.
- During the war the submarine made four combat patrols and fired 19 torpedoes in 12 attacks.
- It was set on the bank of the Shkipersky Canal as a museum in 1989.
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🍽 Deti na Kukhne family restaurant at Sevkabel Port · 🧸 play area
Кожевенная линия, 40, Севкабель Порт (Детский этаж)
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Also in Sevkabel Port, 2nd floor of the children’s building: a play area with a nanny, a cloakroom and space for strollers; book a table on weekend afternoons; call to ask about the nanny’s price.
🍴 A family restaurant with a bay view and a big play village right in the dining room: kids play in plain sight, a nanny keeps watch, entry to the play area is free; there is also a cooking school for children. What to order: chicken nuggets for the kids, an assortment of bruschetta and salmon with orzo for the grown-ups.