Southwest, Moscow

Southwest of Moscow is a part of the city from the city center to the MKAD in the southwestern sector of the city. Most of the territory of the South-West of Moscow is occupied by the South-Western Administrative District (South-Western Administrative District), formed in 1991. The administrative districts of the Southern Administrative District are located in the South-West:

Academicheskiy
Gagarin
Zyuzino
Konkovo
Kotlovka
Lomonosovsky
Obruchevsky
Teply Stan
Cheryomushki
Yasenevo

In 2004, the population of the district was 1188.2 thousand people (11.43% of the population of Moscow).

In addition, the following districts of the Western District of Moscow partially belong to the Southwest:

Vernadsky Avenue
Ramenki, in part of the Vorobyovy Gory
Troparevo-Nikulino

 

Attractions

Historical districts

Vorobyovy Gory is an area in the south-west, directly adjacent to the center of Moscow. There is an observation deck and the Lomonosov Moscow State University complex.

 

Cheryomushki

Metro station: Akademicheskaya

1  The estate "Cheryomushki" (Cheryomushki-Znamenskoye).  The Wikidata element is poorly visible from the street, there is no way to get inside.

 

Leninsky Prospekt

All the facilities are quite far from the metro. The most convenient way to get from Leninsky Prospekt or Yugo-Zapadnaya is by land transport along Leninsky Prospekt.

2  Monument "Lenin and Krupskaya", at the beginning of Krupskaya Street.
3 Vorontsovo Manor, Akademika Pilyugina str., 20. Monument of landscape art of the late XVIII-early XIX centuries. The complex is located on the territory of the former possession of boyar Voronets (XVI century). Unique specimens of old trees — oak, elm, linden - have been preserved in the regular part of the park. During the Soviet era, the park was significantly destroyed, almost all buildings of the pre-revolutionary period were destroyed. It was restored in 2006-2007. The main cultural heritage sites in the park are the entrance gates with a guard tower, two wings, two service buildings, the Church of the Trinity in Vorontsov. There is also a cascade of ponds unique to Moscow, from which the Ramenka River flows. The cascade was completely restored in 2005-2006 by completely draining the pond space and cleaning the bottom, strengthening the coastline. The entrance to the park is free.
4  Moscow department Store.  Wikidata Element The oldest floor escalators in Moscow are operating in the building built in the early 1960s (after the demolition of the Children's World).

 

Troparevo

Metro station: Yugo-Zapadnaya
5 Church of the Archangel Michael in Troparev, Vernadsky Ave., 90. ☎ (495) 434-50-63. The church was built in 1693-1694 on the site of an older wooden temple of the Miracle of Archangel Michael, which existed judging by the preserved descriptions and images back in the XIII century. At the end of the 17th century, a stone temple began to be built on the site of the burned-down wooden temple, which was completed by 1694. The temple was built at the expense of the Novodevichy Monastery, which then owned the village of Troparevo. The peculiarity of the church is the combination of traditional rural church architecture with an atypically rich decoration of the facade of the temple. The temple was built at the end of the XVII century, when the church architecture was undergoing a transition from the Ukrainian style (three-domed) to the Moscow or Naryshkin Baroque.
6 Olympic Village , Michurinsky Prospekt. The Olympic Village was built in 1977-1980 during the preparation for the Games in Moscow to accommodate participants of the XX Moscow Olympics in 1980. Unlike other Olympic villages, it was originally built as a residential neighborhood of the capital: in addition to residential buildings, schools, a polyclinic, a concert hall, a shopping center and other household facilities were built.
7 House No. 125 on Vernadsky Avenue. This house was chosen in the film "The Irony of Fate, or with a light steam" as a model house at 3rd Street Builders. However, this supposedly typical house was built according to an experimental project implemented in only three houses on this avenue. Now in the basement of this house there is a Theater in the Southwest. In 2003, a memorial plaque with images of Barbara Brylskaya and Andrei Myagkov was unveiled on the wall of the house. The same house appeared in Vittorio da Sica's film "Sunflowers" (1970), there is a frame similar to the frames in "Irony of Fate" (corner of the house with an entrance and a view of the Church of the Archangel Michael in Tropareva).

 

Konkovo

Metro station: Konkovo

8  Trinity Church in Konkov, Trade Union St. 116. The Church of the Life—Giving Trinity (Sergius of Radonezh) of the late 17th century, built in the Naryshkin Baroque style, is the only building preserved from the Konkovo-Sergievskoye estate. Later, a chapel and a bell tower were added in the classical style, strongly out of harmony with the main building.
9 Uzkoe Manor, Uzkoe Sanatorium (by bus No. 49 to the final stop "Uzkoe Sanatorium", or by any bus or trolleybus to the stop "Paleontological Museum", then one and a half kilometers on foot along the Sanatorium Alley). The Narrow estate belonged to the family of Princes Golitsyn for almost a hundred years. The appearance of the estate is created by buildings built in the 1770s-1780s under the Golitsyns. Subsequent owners only rebuilt and complemented the ensemble that had developed under them. The manor complex has been almost completely preserved: a former manor house with outbuildings, services, a manager's house, a glacier, a greenhouse, a horse yard and a blacksmith shop, a church, a park with a system of terraced ponds, three gates.
10  Kazan Church in the Narrow. 

 

Yasenevo

  Metro station: Novoyasenevskaya

11 The lobby of the Novoyasenevskaya station, at the end of Novoyasenevsky Avenue. Previously, it was supposed to transfer the Moscow zoo to the part of the forest adjacent to the station. However, the project was not implemented, and the eastern exit to the city (with a ground lobby) stood closed for 20 years until the Butovskaya light metro line was pulled up here. The ground lobby has the shape of a rotunda. It is decorated with gray marble, decorated with animal figures (by L. L. Berlin) and a decorative weather vane placed on the roof.

 

Museums

1 Darwin Museum, 57 Vavilova str. (Academic). ☎ +7 (499) 783-22-53. Tue-Sat from 10:00 to 18:00. Adult - 400 rubles, school - 150 rubles, children under 7 years old - free of charge. The world's first museum dedicated to the theory of evolution. Darwin, founded in Moscow in 1907 by biologist Alexander Kots. One of the largest natural science museums in Europe, which is deservedly popular with visitors with children. The museum moved to the modern building on Vavilova Street only in 1995 - now it houses more than 400,000 exhibits. The main collection of the museum consists of stuffed animals, informational materials, animalistic paintings and sculptures, multimedia installations located on three floors. The exhibits are not presented separately, but form thematic compositions showing scenes from the life of wildlife.
The first floor is dedicated to the diversity of the animal world on Earth: it is the most crowded – here you can see more than 500 different representatives of fauna. On the second floor, it tells about the stages of cognition of wildlife, the processes of microevolution – collections of animals of the same species with minor differences from each other are presented. One of the most interesting is the third floor with halls dedicated to the geographical distribution of animals and the macroevolution of the animal world – it tells about the process of the origin of life on Earth and the emergence of modern man, presents a rich collection of animals from all corners of the globe. Given that the main audience of the museum consists of visitors with children, few people reach the third floor, so on days of mass visits, it is better to start inspecting the expositions from top to bottom. On the ground floor there is a cafe-dining room where you can eat inexpensively without leaving the museum, and after resting, continue further inspection. In addition to the main building, there is an exhibition building where, for a separate price, you can visit thematic interactive exhibitions aimed mainly at a children's audience.
2  Paleontological Museum, 123 Trade Union Street (Teply Stan, Konkovo). ☎ +7 (495) 339-45-44. Wed–Sun 11:00 – 18:00. 400 rubles (2018).

 

Entertainment

3 Theater in the Southwest, 125 Vernadsky Avenue. The theater was founded (as a studio) in 1977 by the permanent artistic director and director Valery Belyakovich. One of the leading actors was Viktor Avilov.

4  Karo Film on Sevastopolsky, Sevastopolsky Prospekt, 11 (Nagornaya). ☎ (495) 545-05-05.

 

Shopping

Konkovo Fair, 126 Trade Union Street (Konkovo metro station). ☎ (495) 420-1268. It was widely advertised on television in the early 1990s
An interesting fact: during the Soviet period, part of the Southwest was called the "Bermuda Triangle" because of the three imported goods stores located there during the general shortage: Jadran, Leipzig and Polish Fashion.

 

Where to stay

1  Salyut Hotel (4 stars), Leninsky Prospekt, 158 (at the entrance to Moscow from Vnukovo airport, 1.2 km south of South-West). ☎ (495) 988-82-92. 4,250 rubles. for a standard double room.
2 Astrus Hotel — Central Tourist House (3 stars), 146 Leninsky Prospekt (South-West). ☎ (495) 434-94-67. Economy class double room — 4,000 rubles.
3  Gallery Hotel (4 stars), Trade Union Street, 4 (Academic). ☎ +7 (495) 719-08-77. 7 500 RUB for a double room.
4 The Prince Hotel, 129a Trade Union Street (Teply Stan). ☎ +7 (495) 987-14-77. Double room — 3,500 rubles.
5  Podushkin Hotel, 54g Sevastopolsky Prospekt (1.5 km south-east of Kaluzhskaya). ☎ +7 (495) 221-22-38.
6  Hotel - hostel Olympia, Moscow, Dmitry Ulyanov str., house 24/1. ☎ +7 916 944 99 11. 00:00-24:00. 650 rub . The rooms are designed for 3-6 visitors. There are double and single superior hotel rooms available at affordable prices. Near the Akademicheskaya metro station.
7 RANHIGS Hotel , 84 Vernadsky Avenue (South-West). ✉ ☎ +7 495 9223064. 2000. Departmental hotel near the Yugo-Zapadnaya metro station. Cheap rooms. Booking without prepayment.