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      Okhta: a cape estate, cemeteries and a Parisian courtyard

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

      The rural Okhta you can’t see from a minibus window: old churchyards, the Utkina Dacha estate, sculptures by the Neva and painted courtyards.

      🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre
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      1. 1
        🌳 Malookhtinsky Park
        Малоохтинский пр., у Невы (вход от Новочеркасского пр.)
        A park on the Neva bank with contemporary sculptures from the 2011 symposium — no signs, so you have to work out each one yourself.
        7 minutes from Novocherkasskaya metro; look for the sculptures by the water
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        Malookhtinsky Park
        © Peterburg23 · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Malookhtinsky Park
        © Peterburg23 · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Malookhtinsky Park
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The park opened in 1960 and covers 8.26 hectares.
        • The 2007–2008 reconstruction planted 554 trees and more than two thousand shrubs.
        • The sculpture exhibition opened on 13 October 2011 after the second Urban Sculpture Symposium.
        • Novocherkassky Avenue splits the park in two; one half holds the Siege Church.
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      3. 2
        🏛 Dormition Church on Malaya Okhta
        Малоохтинский пр., 52
        A church by the old Malookhtinskoye cemetery — one of the few surviving village graveyards of Okhta.
        Look into the old cemetery behind the church
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        Dormition Church on Malaya Okhta
        © AndreyA · Public domain
        Dormition Church on Malaya Okhta
        © AndreyA · Public domain
        • The present church was built in 1996–2001 in memory of the Siege and is called the Siege Church.
        • It stands on the site of the Church of Mary Magdalene (1778–1781), closed in 1938.
        • During the Siege the dead were buried in mass graves in this area.
        • In 2004, while mosaics were being installed, the wind brought down the scaffolding — the rector Viktor Yeroshenko was killed and is buried by the church.
        • Beside the church stand a monument to the children of Beslan (2007) and a monument to Metropolitan Veniamin (2009).
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        🏛 Utkina Dacha
        Уткин пр., 2
        A 1790s estate on the point where the Okkervil and Okhta meet: restored after decades of ruin, it will become a branch of the Museum of Urban Sculpture.
        Walk around the estate along the bank of the Okkervil
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        Utkina Dacha
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Utkina Dacha
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The plot went to Mark Poltoratsky, director of the Court Singing Chapel, as a reward for taking part in opera productions.
        • The presumed author of the 1790 manor house is Nikolai Lvov.
        • The name comes from Vasily Utkin, second husband of Princess Zinaida Shakhovskaya, who bought the manor in 1828.
        • The round hall was painted by D. Scotti — the paintings were still recorded in a 1920 survey.
        • From 1904 it was a branch of the city almshouses for the mentally ill, then a psychiatric hospital.
        • The estate is a monument of federal significance; its roof, foundations and facades were restored in 2021–2023.
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        🌅 Bolsheokhtinsky Bridge
        Санкт-Петербург, Большеохтинский мост
        A drawbridge of 1911 with lighthouse-like towers; from it you can see Smolny Cathedral and the Okhta Cape with the Lakhta Center in the distance.
        A view of Smolny; below is Okhta Cape, the site of Nyenschantz
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        Bolsheokhtinsky Bridge
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The bridge was laid down on 26 June (9 July) 1909, on the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Poltava, and named the Emperor Peter the Great Bridge.
        • Construction was sped up by the sinking of the steamer Arkhangelsk at the Okhta ferry on 7 April 1907 — 39 people died.
        • The design is by Grigory Krivoshein; the bridge opened on 26 October (8 November) 1911.
        • The spans, weighing 3,660 tonnes each, were delivered on the hulls of old ironclads converted into pontoons.
        • It was the first bridge across the Neva in Petersburg with a lower roadway and a lifting span in the middle of the river.
        • The towers on the piers are 36 metres tall; in 2011, for the 100th anniversary, visitors were let into the left-bank tower for the first time.
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        🏛 Bolsheokhtinskoye Cemetery and St Nicholas Church
        пр. Металлистов, 5
        One of the oldest cemeteries in the city (since the 18th century), with the Church of St Nicholas the Wonderworker and quiet alleys above the Okhta.
        St Nicholas Church and quiet alleys
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        Bolsheokhtinskoye Cemetery and St Nicholas Church
        © Александров · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • It is the largest necropolis within the limits of St Petersburg.
        • The cemetery opened on 16 May 1773; it was long called St George's after the Church of St George the Victorious.
        • St Nicholas Church was laid down in 1812 with money from the merchant Nikonov and dedicated to the patron of sailors and shipbuilders.
        • St Nicholas Church is the cemetery's only surviving church and was never closed.
        • The five-domed Eliseyev family burial church (1881–1885) was demolished in 1929.
        • In 1983–1984 Energetikov Avenue cut the cemetery in two.
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        🚶 "Parisian Courtyard" in Okhta
        ул. Молдагуловой, 3 (двор)
        The courtyard's blank end walls are painted in the Impressionist spirit: the Eiffel Tower, a balloon, Parisian lanes and cats.
        Firewalls with Paris in the courtyard
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        • The courtyard was painted by local artists tired of boring blank walls.
        • According to local legend, a couple who kiss for the first time in this courtyard are in for a long and happy love.
        • Until 1980 Moldagulovoy Street was called Gurdina, after a house owner; it was laid out in 1828.
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        🌳 Neva Garden and the Okhtenka Monument
        Среднеохтинский пр. / шоссе Революции
        A 1970 square with the bronze "Okhtenka" — a monument to an Ingrian milkmaid — and sculptures from the 2013 symposium.
        The bronze “Okhtenka” with a jug
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        • On an 1858 plan this plot is called the Kushelev-Bezborodko Garden.
        • The "Okhtenka" was unveiled on 6 June 2003; the authors are V. Sveshnikov, Ya. Neiman and S. Korolenko.
        • The 2.5-metre bronze milkmaid illustrates a line from "Onegin": "With a jug the Okhta girl hurries by".
        • The garden covers 11.19 hectares.
        • In 2003–2007 the Orlovsky shopping centre grew right up against the "Okhtenka" and took part of the garden.
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        ☕️ Sever-Metropol on Sredneokhtinsky
        Среднеохтинский пр., 51/13
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        Coffee and a pastry to finish
        🍴 A café-patisserie of Petersburg's oldest brand, "Sever" — a cosy place to warm up after a walk. What to order: an éclair, the Sever cake, Bird's Milk cake, coffee.

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