From Novatorskaya Metro Station to the Vorontsovo Estate
A walk through the Obruchevsky District: metro, ponds, an estate, and contemporary art objects
Stories along the route
Новаторская (станция метро, Большая кольцевая линия) · 0.0 km
You're standing at a station that knows how to be two lines at once. This is Novatorskaya — part of the Bolshaya Koltsevaya, but a transfer to the Troitskaya line is hiding right here too.
Новатэк · 0.1 km
You are standing in front of the office of a company that extracts gas where permafrost reigns — and its headquarters is neither in Moscow nor in St. Petersburg, but in the town of Tarko-Sale, in Yamal. This is Novatek.
Воронцовские пруды (Москва) · 0.9 km
Five ponds hidden in the very heart of Moscow — and all of them are waiting for you here, right at your feet. You are standing by a cascade that was once simply the source of the Ramenka River and has now turned into a w…
Улица Воронцовские Пруды · 1.4 km
You are standing on a street that until 1984 was simply Projected Passage No. 5034. Imagine: no name at all, just a number in the planners' blueprints.
Воронцово (усадьба) · 1.4 km
Перед вами не просто парк, а настоящая машина времени, переносящая в эпоху, когда здесь шумели владения боярина Воронца.
Обручевский район · 1.4 km
You are standing in the very heart of the Obruchevsky District, and you may not even realize that life is buzzing all around you — a life that far from all Muscovites know about.