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      Kupchino: Švejk, quarries and the Izhora Line

      ⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 6.5 km + 🚌🍽 1📍 8 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      Kupchino, no joke: a bronze Švejk, parks on flooded quarries, the Siege-era pillbox museum on the Izhora Line and an Old Believer church. The finale — desserts at Koza Dereza.

      🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre
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      1. 1
        🏛 Monument to the Good Soldier Švejk
        Балканская пл., 5, к. 7 (у м. «Купчино»)
        Russia's first Švejk (2003): he salutes and hides a beer mug behind his back; his nose is rubbed "for luck".
        Start at Kupchino metro: rub Švejk’s nose for luck.
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        • The monument was created by the sculptor Alexander Charkin together with D. B. Pakhomov and unveiled on 11 April 2003.
        • The bronze Švejk is 160 cm tall — by design, the hero's "true" height.
        • Originally Švejk stood on a barrel-shaped pedestal 80 cm high.
        • Yaroslav Hašek Street begins at Balkanskaya Square.
      2. 🚌 bus 282 or 253 from Kupchino metro to the Malaya Bukharestskaya Ulitsa stop, ≈10–15 min, or taxi ≈10 min
      3. 2
        🌳 Heroes-Firefighters Park (Park Geroyev-Pozharnykh)
        ул. Димитрова (вход у д. 32)
        🚪 entrance from Yuzhnoye Highway
        A park on the site of flooded Kupchino quarries: ponds, little bridges, a cycle path.
        A loop around the quarry ponds.
        🚪 exit to Dimitrova Street
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        Heroes-Firefighters Park (Park Geroyev-Pozharnykh)
        © Uz1awa · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The park was laid out in 2018 and opened on 26 September 2019.
        • Six ponds formed in the clay pits of a former brick factory.
        • The park covers 54.56 hectares.
        • On 15 December 2023 a monument to rescuers was unveiled in the park.
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      5. 3
        🏛 Pillbox No. 204 of the Izhora Line
        ул. Димитрова, 43А (площадка бывшего Радиоцентра, у парка Героев-Пожарных)
        A museum in a 1943 pillbox — part of the Siege-era Izhora Line: a dugout, a bunker and trenches have been recreated nearby in the young woodland between Heroes-Firefighters Park and Sofiyskaya Street.
        The pillbox stands in a small wood, not in the courtyards: the footpath to the museum starts from Dimitrova St. Inside — tours by appointment (free as of 2023), check ahead.
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        Pillbox No. 204 of the Izhora Line
        © Alandislands · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Pillbox No. 204 of the Izhora Line
        © Alandislands · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Pillbox No. 204 of the Izhora Line
        © Alandislands · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • Pillbox no. 204 was built by October 1943 to the standard design no. 117.I of 1940.
        • The Izhora Line stretched for 20 km through Ugolnaya Harbour, Srednyaya Rogatka and Kupchino, and more than 2,000 people built it.
        • The line saw no fighting: the Germans never advanced as far as the city's built-up areas.
        • Nine of the line's pillboxes survive, all recognised as cultural heritage sites.
        • The museum in pillbox no. 204 opened on 18 January 2014 — the anniversary of the breaking of the Siege.
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      7. 4
        🏛 Intercession Old Believer Church
        пр. Александровской Фермы, 20
        An Old Believer church of 1895–1896 — a fragment of old Kupchino among the panel blocks.
        An Old Believer church of the 1890s among new-build blocks.
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        Intercession Old Believer Church
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Intercession Old Believer Church
        © Peterburg23 · CC BY 3.0
        • The church was built in 1895–1896 to a design by V. A. Kolyankovsky as the Church of Alexander Nevsky on the military section of the Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery.
        • In December 1937 the long-serving rector Alexey Chuzhbovsky was arrested and shot, and services stopped.
        • From the mid-1930s until 1982 the Old Believers of Leningrad had no church and prayed in secret in apartments.
        • The abandoned church was handed over to the Old Believers in spring 1983 and consecrated on 25 December in the name of the Intercession.
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      9. 5
        🏛 Cemetery of the Victims of 9 January
        пр. Александровской Фермы / ул. Ткачей (Обухово)
        The old Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery: the mass grave of the victims of Bloody Sunday and a monument of 1931 with a high relief.
        A monument from 1931 and other Izhora Line pillboxes along the fence.
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        Cemetery of the Victims of 9 January
        © MBH · CC BY 4.0
        Cemetery of the Victims of 9 January
        © MBH · CC BY 4.0
        • The cemetery was founded by a decree of 1871 and consecrated in 1872 as Preobrazhenskoye, after the Church of the Transfiguration.
        • In April 1881 the executed members of the 1 March plot — Zhelyabov, Perovskaya, Kibalchich, Mikhailov and Rysakov — were secretly buried here.
        • The cemetery received its present name in 1925, after the mass graves of the victims of Bloody Sunday.
        • Four pillboxes of the Izhora Line survive on the grounds — two monolithic and two prefabricated.
        • In 1992 the daughter of the rector Alexey Chuzhbovsky pointed out the place where those shot in 1937 were buried.
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      11. 6
        🌳 Internationalists Park
        пр. Славы (у м. «Проспект Славы»)
        A park around Volkovsky Pond — the former bed of the Volkovka river — with a memorial to internationalist soldiers and an amphitheatre.
        Along Dunaysky to Volkovsky Pond and the amphitheatre; opposite the Yuzhny Polyus mall.
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        Internationalists Park
        © Messir · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Internationalists Park
        © Florstein (Telegram:WikiPhoto.Space) · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Internationalists Park
        © Uz1awa · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The park is named after the internationalist soldiers — participants in the Afghan war of 1979–1989.
        • There used to be the village of Romanovo here, later Ryleyevo: the houses were demolished, but some of the fruit trees survived.
        • Landscaping went on from the early 1980s, and the park was finally handed over in 1986.
        • The monument to the internationalist soldiers (sculptor N. Gordiyevsky) was installed in 1998.
        • The amphitheatre opened in September 2011, and the monument to special-forces fighters on 24 October 2012.
        • In 2018 residents collected more than 10,000 signatures against building a shopping centre on part of the park.
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      13. 7
        🏛 Church of St George the Victorious
        пр. Славы, 45
        A church of 2003 in memory of those who fell in the line of military duty — on the edge of Internationalists Park.
        A church at the edge of the park.
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        Church of St George the Victorious
        © Uz1awa · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The church was built from 1997 to 2003 on the edge of the park by Bukharestskaya Street.
        • New gilded crosses were put on the domes in 2004.
        • In 2012 the façades were repainted, and the church went from red to white.
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      15. 8
        🍽 Koza Dereza Restaurant
        пр. Славы, 43/49
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        Dinner and liquid-nitrogen ice cream.
        🍴 Kupchino's favourite gastropub with an unusual interior. What to order: homemade ice cream in liquid nitrogen, medovik (honey cake) with berries, borscht with veal cheek, tom yum.

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