From Studencheskaya Metro Station to Dorogomilovo: History and Modernity
A walk through Dorogomilovo: from the metro station to the academy of arts and back
Stories along the route
Студенческая (станция метро, Москва) · 0.0 km
You are standing at the exit of Studencheskaya station, and you may not even realize that beneath your feet runs one of the most unusual lines of the Moscow metro.
Киевская улица (Москва) · 0.0 km
You're standing on Kievskaya Street without even suspecting that its name is just the tip of the iceberg. Until 1952, this street bore a completely different name — or rather, as many as three.
Российская государственная специализированная академия искусств · 0.3 km
Before you stands a building where art truly knows no boundaries. This is the Russian State Specialized Academy of Arts — a place where theater performers, artists, and musicians study, people whose physical abilities ar…
Дорогомиловский рынок · 0.9 km
You are standing in front of a place that has been feeding this neighborhood for almost a century. Dorogomilovsky Market is one of Moscow's main food markets, and its history began in 1932.
Памятник Багратиону (Москва) · 1.9 km
Before you stands a bronze general who seems to have just stepped off the battlefield and now stands frozen forever in the square in front of the Tower 2000.
Дорогомиловское кладбище · 2.4 km
You are standing where, almost a hundred years ago, a completely different Moscow began. Picture it: the year 1771, the city is in the grip of a plague epidemic, and beyond the outpost, on a wasteland between the river a…