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      Dachnoye, Ulyanka and Ligovo: from Tsoi to the Dudergofka

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 7 km🍽 2📍 7 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      The residential southwest, with history: an 18th-century estate among high-rises, Viktor Tsoi’s house and Ligovo’s former manor park with its birch Alley of Glory.

      🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre
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        🏛 Viktor Tsoi Monument
        сквер на пересечении пр. Ветеранов и ул. Танкиста Хрустицкого (рядом с м. «Проспект Ветеранов»)
        A four-metre sculpture by Matvey Makushkin (2020) in a small park a couple of minutes from the metro — Tsoi lived nearby.
        Start at Prospekt Veteranov metro: the monument in the square by the crossroads, 1–2 minutes on foot.
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        • The monument was unveiled on 14 August 2020 — on the eve of the 30th anniversary of Tsoi's death.
        • The monument is four metres tall.
        • The decision to build the monument was taken in 2015, but residents protested, fearing noisy fans.
        • The installation was organised by the Viktor Tsoi Memory Foundation.
        • In summer 1986 Tsoi worked at a bathhouse on Prospekt Veteranov — washing the premises with a fire hose.
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        🌳 Aleksandrino Estate and Park
        пр. Стачек, 226
        A Neoclassical estate of the Chernyshevs–Sheremetevs (1770s, attributed to Vallin de la Mothe) and a landscape park.
        The neoclassical Chernyshev house and a landscape park.
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        Aleksandrino Estate and Park
        © Florstein (Telegram:WikiPhoto.Space) · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Aleksandrino Estate and Park
        © GAlexandrova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Aleksandrino Estate and Park
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • In the early 18th century these lands belonged to Tsarevna Natalya Alekseyevna, Peter I's younger sister.
        • The main house is square in plan, with eight projecting porticoes on Composite-order columns.
        • The park was named by the last pre-revolutionary owner, Alexander Dmitrievich Sheremetev.
        • The landscape park was laid out in the mid-19th century under the Sheremetevs; among its authors was the architect Nikolai Benois.
        • After the revolution the house became residential, and the state hall was for a time used as a pigsty.
        • In the war the estate was on the front line of Leningrad's defence and was destroyed; the house was rebuilt in the 1960s to a design by M. M. Plotnikov.
        • Today a children's art school works in the main house.
        • Films shot here include Doctor Kalyuzhny (1939) with Raikin and Zheimo, the horror film Blood Drinkers and the series Poor Nastya.
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        🏛 The House Where Viktor Tsoi Lived
        пр. Ветеранов, 99
        An ordinary nine-storey block where Tsoi lived in 1984–1987 — a pilgrimage site for Kino fans.
        Through Alexandrino Park to the south — to Tsoi’s house.
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        • In summer 1986 Tsoi took a side job at a bathhouse on this same Prospekt Veteranov — washing the premises with a fire hose.
        • In spring 1987 the film Assa came out — its finale features "We Are Waiting for Change".
        • On 14 August 2020 a four-metre monument to Tsoi by Matvey Makushkin was installed on Prospekt Veteranov, at Tankista Khrustitskogo Street.
        • The monument was conceived in 2015, but Smolny only gave permission in 2018 — local residents feared noisy gatherings of fans.
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        ☕️ Pirogovy Dvorik on Veteranov
        пр. Ветеранов, 108, к. 1
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        A snack of pies.
        🍴 A chain café-bakery with pies sold by weight. What to order: cabbage pie, meat pie, syrniki, coffee.
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        🌳 Polezhaevsky Park
        пр. Ветеранов (вход к Аллее Славы)
        The remains of the Ligovo estate park: an Avenue of Glory with 900 birches, bridges over the Dudergofka, the foundation of a mill from 1755.
        The Alley of Glory: 900 birches for the days of the Siege.
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        Polezhaevsky Park
        © Spb.Terminator · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Polezhaevsky Park
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Polezhaevsky Park
        © 13243546A · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The park covers 156 hectares between Peterhof Highway, Marshala Zhukova and Veteranov avenues and Avangardnaya Street.
        • Serfs of Count Grigory Orlov began draining this area in the late 18th century.
        • From 1840 the estate was owned by General G. G. Kushelev, the manor was rebuilt by Andrey Stackenschneider, and the English landscape park was laid out then.
        • The park is named after the gold-mine owner and banker K. M. Polezhaev, who bought the estate around 1889.
        • The Ligovo manor palace was taken down for brick in winter 1932–1933.
        • For more than two years of the Siege the front line ran through the park.
        • Ligovsky Pond was drained before the war and was never restored after the locks were destroyed.
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        🏛 Church of St Nino, Equal-to-the-Apostles
        Полежаевский парк, у Дудергофского канала
        A church founded in 2010 deep in the park; nearby is a military burial ground.
        Along the bank of the Dudergofka to Nina’s church.
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        • The church was laid down on 27 January 2010 — the anniversary of the complete lifting of the Siege.
        • The dedication to St Nino of Georgia was chosen because the Siege was lifted on her feast day.
        • 75 fallen soldiers are buried next to the church.
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        ☕️ Dudergofka Café
        Полежаевский парк, аллея Славы
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        Shashlik on the veranda; from there it’s 1 km to Ligovo station.
        🍴 A café with a terrace right in the park. What to order: shashlik, khachapuri, a glass of wine.

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