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Shabolovka: from merchant mansions to the television center

Walk2.4 km32 minModerate
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Shabolovka: from merchant mansions to the television center
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A walk along a legendary street: architecture, history, and symbols of Soviet television

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Stories along the route

  1. Особняк Гектора Симоно · 0.0 km

    Перед вами — настоящий дом-терем, спрятанный среди современных зданий. Представьте: конец XIX века, Шаболовка — промышленная окраина, кругом фабричные корпуса, шум станков, и вдруг среди этой суеты вырастает сказочный ос…

  2. Дом Кушашниковых · 0.5 km

    Перед вами дом, который видел, как Москва меняла свой облик, — палаты Кушашниковых. Это не просто старинная постройка, а настоящий молчаливый свидетель XVIII века, спрятавшийся среди более поздних зданий.

  3. Улица Шаболовка · 0.8 km

    You are standing on a street that remembers how Moscow grew outward and upward. Shabolovka is one of the capital's ancient streets; it took shape by the mid-eighteenth century, and since then its appearance has changed a…

  4. Шуховская башня · 1.2 km

    Before you stands one of Moscow's most astonishing structures, which seems to float in the air despite its weight.

  5. Шаболовский телецентр · 1.7 km

    You are standing at the foot of an openwork metal tower that seems to float in the air. This is the Shukhov Tower, and before you is the Shabolovka Television Center — the place where mass television in our country began…

  6. Храм Троицы Живоначальной на Шаболовке · 2.4 km

    You are standing before a church that has watched all of Shabolovka change. Imagine: just a hundred years ago, quiet merchant mansions stood here, and now television antennas rise above them.

Shabolovka: from merchant mansions to the television center — KineQuest audio quest