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      Nevskaya Zastava: from the Palevsky Estate to the “Kulich”

      ⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 5.5 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      A walk along the old Shlisselburg Highway: a 1920s workers’ garden city, Shchemilovka Park, the porcelain factory and Lvov’s “kulich” (Easter-cake) church.

      🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre
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        🚶 Palevsky Housing Estate
        Санкт-Петербург, кварталы между пр. Елизарова, ул. Седова, ул. Ольги Берггольц и ул. Пинегина
        A workers' "garden city" of the 1920s: low-rise houses, arches between buildings and quiet green courtyards — there are no other such estates in the city.
        Exit Elizarovskaya and walk through the courtyards between Sedova and Olgi Berggolts — arches, jasmine, wild grapevine.
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        Palevsky Housing Estate
        © Mariia Kuzovleva · CC BY 4.0
        Palevsky Housing Estate
        © Mariia Kuzovleva · CC BY 4.0
        Palevsky Housing Estate
        © Anastasiya Lvova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The estate was built in 1925–1928 for the workers of Pal's calico-printing factory and neighbouring plants.
        • The architects were Alexei Zazersky and Nikolai Rybin; of the 19 houses, no two are alike.
        • The houses have no basements — foundations were laid straight into the ground, and many residents dug cellars in their apartments.
        • Elizarov Avenue was called Palevsky until 1939, and Olga Berggolts Street was Martynovskaya until 1978.
        • In the 2000s many entrances became separate entrances to apartments — in effect, townhouses appeared.
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        🌳 Babushkin Park
        Санкт-Петербург, пр. Обуховской Обороны (вход у остановки «Парк имени Бабушкина»)
        🚪 entrance from Prospekt Obukhovskoy Oborony
        The old park of Shchemilovka (the former "Vienna Garden"), about 14 hectares on the former Shlisselburg Road.
        Walk along Prospekt Obukhovskoy Oborony (the former highway) and make a loop of the old park.
        🚪 exit to Farforovskaya Street
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        Babushkin Park
        © Spb.Terminator · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Babushkin Park
        © Spb.Terminator · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Babushkin Park
        © Spb.Terminator · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The park stands on the Neva bank and is considered one of the first parks of the Nevsky district.
        • The park was named after Ivan Babushkin around 1925–1926: the revolutionary began beyond the Nevskaya Zastava, at the Semyannikov Plant.
        • Today the park has an indoor ice rink and an indoor football pitch.
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      5. 3
        🖼 Imperial Porcelain Factory Museum
        Санкт-Петербург, пр. Обуховской Обороны, 151
        🎟 ticket
        A Hermitage branch on the grounds of Russia's oldest porcelain factory (since 1744): a historical collection and a brand shop.
        A porcelain collection spanning 280 years and the factory shop.
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        Imperial Porcelain Factory Museum
        © GAlexandrova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Imperial Porcelain Factory Museum
        © GAlexandrova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The factory was founded in 1744 at the will of Elizabeth Petrovna — Russia's first porcelain production.
        • The recipe for Russian porcelain was found by Dmitry Vinogradov, Lomonosov's schoolmate at the Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy.
        • The factory's first goods for sale were snuffboxes: in 1751 one was presented to the empress.
        • In 1837 a sample room was set up at the factory, and by 1845 it had become a museum.
        • In 1925 the factory was named after Lomonosov — hence the well-known abbreviation LFZ.
        • Bone china has been made here since 1968.
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      7. 4
        🍸 Neighbours
        Санкт-Петербург, пр. Обуховской Обороны, 195
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        Lunch by the Neva; better to book a table.
        🍴 A gastropub by the Neva with signature cuisine and cocktails; locals book ahead. What to order: tuna bowl, scallops with green grechotto, tom yum, a peach-and-kumquat cocktail.
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      9. 5
        🏛 "Kulich and Paskha" Church
        Санкт-Петербург, пр. Обуховской Обороны, 235
        N. Lvov's Trinity Church (1785–1790): a rotunda shaped like a kulich (Easter bread) and a bell tower like a paskha (Easter cheese dessert) — the most recognisable church on the factory outskirts.
        Walk around the rotunda and the pyramid-shaped bell tower; finish at Proletarskaya metro.
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        "Kulich and Paskha" Church
        © GAlexandrova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The idea of giving the church the shape of a kulich and paskha came from the patron, Procurator General Prince Alexander Vyazemsky.
        • The manor church proved too small for the parish, and in 1858 a narthex and vestibule were added.
        • In 1874 the future admiral Alexander Kolchak was baptised here.
        • The church functioned in Soviet times too, but in 1937 its rector was shot and in March 1938 the church was closed for use as a club.
        • The revered icon "Joy of All Who Sorrow" (with the coins) is kept here.

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