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      Ozerki and Shuvalovo: Poklonnaya Hill, lakes and dachas

      ⏱ 4 h 30 min🚶 6 km🍽 1📍 7 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      A former resort on the Suzdal Lakes: the view from Poklonnaya Hill, a pillbox among dachas, an Art Nouveau gymnasium, an old cemetery and dinner by the water.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🏘 Off the centre
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        🌅 Poklonnaya Hill
        проспект Энгельса, у метро Озерки
        The highest point in this part of town: from the ledge above Engels Avenue you can see the city all the way to the Gulf of Finland.
        From Ozerki metro, 10 minutes south along Engelsa; climb the ledge for the panorama.
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        • The hill is 40 metres above sea level and is part of the Pargolovo–Levashovo moraine ridge.
        • One version says the Swedes sent messengers from here to ask Peter the Great for peace — hence the name ("poklon" means a bow).
        • Five streets and avenues meet at the top, forming a local "Five Corners".
        • A monument to Stalin stood on the hill from 1949 to 1961.
        • At the very top of the hill stood the dacha of the Tibetan doctor Badmaev, who treated Rasputin.
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        🏛 Pillbox Z-15 by Poklonnaya Hill
        Озерки, между Поклонной горой и Большой Озёрной улицей
        One of the firing points of the Leningrad fortified area, dug into a dacha slope above the lakes.
        Through the lanes of dacha-lined Poklonnaya Hill to the pillbox.
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        🏛 Ozerki Gymnasium Building (1911–1914)
        Большая Озёрная улица, 60
        A gymnasium building "for children of both sexes" from 1911–1914 — a landmark of the dacha-era Ozerki.
        Along Bolshaya Ozyornaya — look at the surviving dachas.
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        Ozerki Gymnasium Building (1911–1914)
        © GAlexandrova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The Shuvalovo-Ozerki boys' and girls' gymnasiums opened in 1909 and at first squeezed into private houses.
        • They got their own three-storey brick building in 1914.
        • The plot was donated by the heirs of the Kolomyagi owners, the Orlov-Denisovs.
        • The designer was the technician Nikolai Vasiliev, a namesake of the famous Art Nouveau architect.
        • In Soviet times it housed School No. 114, and in the 1990s–2000s a dormitory.
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        🌳 Upper Suzdal Lake
        пляж у Славянской набережной, Озерки
        Ozerki's main "dacha" lake: a beach, pines and a view of the steep bank of Poklonnaya Hill.
        Go down to Upper Lake and follow the shore north.
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        Upper Suzdal Lake
        © GAlexandrova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Upper Suzdal Lake
        © Красный · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Upper Suzdal Lake
        © GAlexandrova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The Upper Lake is 600 by 450 metres, with a maximum depth of 11 metres.
        • All three Suzdal lakes were once a single glacial lake, Parkola — hence the name Pargolovo.
        • The lakes are fed by springs, as the water's temperature and composition show.
        • After the 2020–2024 improvements the Upper Lake was given over to beach recreation.
        • In 1906 Alexander Blok wrote "The Stranger" in Ozerki.
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        🏛 Finland Railway House (1898)
        Староорловская ул., 2А, у ж/д станции Шувалово
        A Finland Railway residential building from 1898 (architect Bruno Granholm) in the Shuvalovo station ensemble — a memory of the dacha-era Shuvalovo.
        Past Middle Lake to Shuvalovo station.
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        Finland Railway House (1898)
        © GAlexandrova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The house was designed by the architect Bruno Granholm.
        • The house is part of the Shuvalovo station ensemble, together with the station building and a service building.
        • The Shuvalovo station ensemble is an architectural monument of regional significance.
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        🏛 Spaso-Pargolovsky Church (Saviour Not Made by Hands)
        Выборгское шоссе, 106А (Шуваловское кладбище)
        The Church of the Saviour Not Made by Hands on a hill in the old Shuvalovo cemetery above the Lower Lake.
        A church on the hill of the Shuvalovo cemetery above Lower Lake.
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        Spaso-Pargolovsky Church (Saviour Not Made by Hands)
        © Alexey Komarov · CC BY 3.0
        • The first wooden church here was consecrated on 7 September 1755 in the presence of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna.
        • In 1791 the church burned down after a lightning strike; the red-brick chapel built in its place still stands.
        • The next wooden church (1792, architect Luigi Rusca) was described by Griboyedov in his sketch "A Trip Out of Town".
        • The present stone church in the Russian-Byzantine style was laid down in 1876 and consecrated in 1880.
        • The settlement by the church was called Suzdalskaya: the Shuvalovs moved peasants here from the Suzdal district.
        • The church was never closed in Soviet times.
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        🍽 Hygge on the Lake
        Выборгское шоссе, 156, корп. 5
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        Dinner with a view of Lower Suzdal Lake; back by buses along Vyborgskoye Shosse to Ozerki/Prospekt Prosveshcheniya metro.
        🍴 A family restaurant with panoramic windows and a terrace right on the shore of the Lower Suzdal Lake. What to order: draniki (potato pancakes), roast beef, breakfasts, European hot dishes.

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