Route: Shchukinskaya (metro station) → Akademika Kurchatova Street
A walk through a district with the history of a military town and modern streets
Stories along the route
Щукинская (станция метро) · 0.1 km
You are standing at a station that bears the name of a district, and the district bears the name of a man whose surname sounds like an invitation to action.
Улица Академика Курчатова · 1.0 km
You are standing on a street that changed three names before becoming the one you see now. Until 1922 it was called Pokrovskaya, then for almost forty years — Bodraya, and only in 1960 did it receive its name in honor of…
Щукинский лесопарк · 1.5 km
Before you is not just a forest, but a true protected island in the middle of a huge metropolis. The Shchukinsky Forest Park, also called Pokrovskoye-Streshnevo II, covers 22 hectares.
Улица Маршала Василевского (Москва) · 1.7 km
You are standing on a street that bears the name of a man whose surname sounds like an order — Vasilevsky. And that's no accident: Marshal Vasilevsky Street is not just asphalt and buildings, it's a piece of history froz…
Военный городок (Щукино) · 2.1 km
Before you lies a city you won't find on any map, yet it still lives on in the outlines of these streets. In the 1930s, right here, next to the Pokrovskoye-Streshnevo estate, an entire complex for the command staff of th…