Izmaylovo: from the metro to the park and ponds

Stories along the route

1. Измайловская · 0.0 km

   You are standing at a station that once bore a completely different name. Imagine: it's 1961, a section of the line opens, and this above-ground platform greets its first passengers as 'Izmaylovsky Park'.

2. Просянский пруд · 0.5 km

   You are standing on a shore where water once rippled, but now there is only silence and dry earth. This is Prosyansky Pond — the largest of the artificial reservoirs of the Izmaylovo Menagerie, though today you won't fin…

3. Измайлово (исторический район) · 0.7 km

   You're standing in the very heart of Izmaylovo, yet formally this place doesn't exist on the map of Moscow. It's a vernacular district — the kind that lives in people's memory and on everyone's lips, but not in official…

4. Красный ручей (приток Серебрянки) · 2.6 km

   Look down at your feet: this unremarkable stream, which now looks more like a ditch, is the real Red Stream, a left tributary of the Serebryanka.

5. Совхозный пруд (Измайлово) · 2.6 km

   Вы стоите у воды, и, если бы не табличка, вы бы вряд ли догадались, что этот пруд — часть большого декоративного комплекса. Перед вами Совхозный пруд, один из водоёмов Измайловского лесопарка.

6. Измайлово (природно-исторический парк) · 2.6 km

   You are standing at the edge of a vast green ocean that stretches across more than one and a half thousand hectares.