Mytishchi is one of the cities in the Moscow region, directly adjacent to Moscow from the northeast. Despite the lack of a historical urban environment, Mytishchi has some noteworthy objects, and in the surrounding area there are quite significant centers of folk crafts, estates and other noteworthy places.
Mytishchi is part of the agglomeration along the Yaroslavl direction.
There is no clear center with a square and a central street in
Mytishchi. The city is formed by rectangular blocks of Brezhnevkas,
built on the site of villages and workers' settlements; in some places
older houses have been preserved in them. All that remains from the
pre-revolutionary buildings is one factory and 3-4 brick houses.
To the east of the city is the Losiny Ostrov National Park, the largest
forest park in the vicinity of Moscow, and to the east is the cascade of
reservoirs on the Klyazma, a popular summer vacation spot for
Muscovites. Also in the Mytishchi district are the famous centers of
folk crafts Zhostovo and Fedoskino and a number of estates, including
Marfino in the pseudo-Gothic style.
1 Church of the Annunciation, Taininskoye (route taxi 12 from the
Perlovskaya, Taininskaya, Mytishchi railway stations). A church built in
1675-1677 by order of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich at the Travel Palace
located here (on the road to Sergiev Posad). It has completely preserved
its historical forms and is a five-domed temple with kokoshniks. The
porch of the church, which consists of two symmetrical staircases with a
common beginning and end, topped with tents, resembles a wooden tower
and has no analogues in stone among Old Russian architecture. Next to
the church there are landscaped lawns where the Monument to Nicholas II
is located, the second one on this site (the first was blown up by a
certain Revolutionary Military Council in the late 90s). In the
background of the church, depending on your location, there will be
either a wall of new buildings in Mytishchi or the cooling tower of the
Northern Thermal Power Plant, but this only adds to the charm of this
place.
✦ Surviving examples of the development of dacha settlements
(Perlovsky, Taininsky).
2 Monument to the Mytishchi water supply
system, intersection of the street. Yubileinaya and st. Mira. Quite a
futuristic monument, opened in 2004. It consists of three blue pipes
sticking out of the ground, 20 meters high, with multi-colored valves,
located in the center of the roundabout. Nowadays it is one of the main
calling cards of the city; after it, monuments to the airplane, samovar
and tulips, not inferior to it in monumentality, appeared in the city.
The Mytishchi water supply system itself, one of the first water
pipelines in Russia, was built in 1779-1804 and supplied Moscow with
water for about 150 years. The Rostokinsky aqueduct located in the
north-east of Moscow has been preserved from it.
3 Vladimir Church,
Yaroslavskoye Highway. It was built in 1713 in the Moscow Baroque style
and was located on the Trinity Road leading to the Trinity-Sergius
Lavra. In 1817, a high bell tower was added, lost during the Great
Patriotic War and restored in 2000. The church is located on the
highway, so most often it is seen from the window of a passing (and
sometimes standing, traffic jam in that place) car.
4 Federal War
Memorial Cemetery, Borodino village (Ostashkovskoe highway). The
necropolis opened in 2013 for persons with special services to the
state. There are no free visits, but excursions are sometimes offered.
5 Metrovagonmash , st. Kolontsova, 4 (a whole block east of the railway
from the Taininskaya platform to Mytishchi station). You can see the
wall of a pre-revolutionary workshop, a non-standard monument to a
subway car at checkpoint No. 1, and a combat vehicle on a pedestal.
Nothing else is visible from the street.
The plant, whose main
product, metro cars, is known far beyond the city. Its history dates
back to 1897; some buildings of the plant have been preserved from that
time and are an excellent example of the factory architecture of that
time. There is no free access to the plant territory. Jun 2018 edit
6 Courthouse, Abramova Street, 1. Brick building in a style
reminiscent of steamline, circa 1930
1 Mytishchi Historical and Art Museum, st. Mira, 4. ✉ ☎ +7 (495)
586-52-98. Mon – Tue and last Friday of the month: closed; Wed, Fri –
Sat: 10:00 – 18:00; Thu: 12:00 – 20:00. Adults – 110 rubles; students,
schoolchildren - 70 rubles; pensioners – 90 rub. Museum of Local Lore.
2 Museum of Nature Conservation, Novomytishchisky Prospekt, 19. ☎ +7
(495) 586-75-14. Mon: closed; Tue – Thu: 09:00 – 18:00; Fri: 09:00 –
17:00; Sat: 09:00 – 15:00. Free admission. Exhibits about flora and
fauna, a large number of stuffed animals.
3 Mytishchi District Art
Gallery, Novomytishchi Prospect, 36/7 (in the administration building).
✉ ☎ +7 (498) 720-54-40. Mon – Tue: closed; Wed: 11:00 – 19:00; Thu:
12:00 – 20:00; Fri – Sat: 11:00 – 19:00; Sun: 10:00 – 17:00. Ticket
sales stop 30 minutes before closing. Adults – 60 rub; students,
schoolchildren, pensioners – 30 rubles; children under 7 years old –
free.
4 Drama and Comedy Theater “FEST” , st. Shcherbakova, 6A (Mira
Square). ✉ ☎ +7 (495) 582-81-81.
5 Puppet theater “Ognivo” ,
Sharapovskaya st., 4k1. ✉ ☎ administration +7 (495) 586-85-01, box
office +7 (495) 583-36-70. The theater building is stylized as a
fairy-tale castle.
Water park “Kva-kva-park” , Kommunisticheskaya st., 1 (TC XL). ✉
☎ +7 (495) 789-69-18. 10:00-22:00.
7 Arena Mytishchi, st. Letnaya,
17. ✉ ☎ +7 (495) 223-98-80. Ice arena built for the 2007 World Hockey
Championship. Now there is no big hockey in Mytishchi, but the arena
hosts concerts and ice shows. In addition, there is a year-round ice
skating rink.
8 Moscow Brewing Company, Volkovskoe sh., 12. ✉ ☎ +7
(495) 788-54-33. For free. Excursion with tasting, usually on weekends.
Sign up on the website.
By plane
See the “By plane” section of the Moscow article. The
closest airport to Mytishchi is Sheremetyevo, but there is no direct
public transport there; you can get there through Lobnya or Moscow. From
Vnukovo and Domodedovo the shortest route is also through Moscow.
By train
The section of the railway from Moscow to Mytishchi is
the busiest in Russia in terms of the number of passenger trains, and
the vast majority of them are commuter trains. All long-distance trains
pass here without stopping, but commuter trains, including express
trains, have a stop at least at Mytishchi station. From the Yaroslavl
station to it, express trains take 18 minutes, regular trains take about
half an hour. The other four platforms in the city allow all express
trains and some electric trains (mainly during rush hours), and they
also have a two-hour lunch break on weekdays. In addition, Stroitel and
Chelyuskinskaya are located after the branch to Bolshevo, and therefore
a noticeably smaller number of trains go there. From Moscow to Mytishchi
the night break is from 00:56 to 04:50, in the opposite direction - from
23:46 to 04:47.
During rush hour the route is extremely busy; in
Mytishchi it will be difficult to board a passing train in the morning
on weekdays. Even on express trains you will almost certainly have to
stand. The freer ones are usually the trains running along the main
route, and of these, those with the final or starting station closer to
Moscow. Quite free on weekends and outside peak hours.
All trains
have a starting or ending point at Yaroslavsky Station (there are no
other metro transfers within Moscow). In the other direction, by train
you can get to Korolev, Pushkino, Shchelkovo, Fryazino, Sofrino, Monino,
Abramtsevo, Krasnoarmeysk, Sergiev Posad, Alexandrov.
1 Perlovskaya platform. Please note that the platforms from and to
Moscow are quite far apart.
2 Taininskaya platform.
3 Mytishchi
station. A number of station buildings from the 19th century have
survived, including the old station. The new canopy-concourse over the
tracks is quite famous and has become the hallmark of the city.
4 Platform Builder.
5 Chelyuskinskaya platform.
By car
You can get to Mytishchi from Moscow along the Ostashkovskoye or
Yaroslavskoye highways, as well as along the Moscow Ring Road, from each
of these highways there are exits into the city. Transit traffic around
the city is quite difficult, so it is better to choose the most
convenient exit into the city. It is most convenient to get to western
Perlovka from the Moscow Ring Road, to the city center from
Ostashkovskoye Highway, and to the Mytishchi station area and to all
areas east of the railway from Yaroslavskoye.
By bus
Numerous
buses from the metro stations Medvedkovo, Babushkinskaya, Rostokino and
VDNKh. Routes from Moscow cover the entire city; there is no one
“universal” route to get there. To get to Taininskoye, you can use
intra-city Moscow buses. 136 (VDNKh - Lianozovo sq.) and ed. 735
(Medvedkovo - Shchelkovskaya).
Travel by car between some parts of the city is quite difficult (within the city there is only one bridge over the Yauza and the railway). In addition, traffic jams are likely on the streets, especially during rush hour.
Magnets, postcards, and books about the city are sold in the foyer of
the historical and art museum. In the foyer of the art gallery there are
artistic products of city masters (from, in fact, paintings to boxes,
Christmas tree balls, tablet holders and umbrellas). For handicraft
products, you should go to factories or Moscow. Magnets/plates/mugs are
common in newsstands.
As in other places adjacent to the Moscow
Ring Road, Mytishchi has several giant shopping centers (Red Whale,
June, Leroy Merlin, Auchan), where you can buy almost anything. There
are many shops in the city and outside the shopping center.
Cheap
1 Food court in the shopping center “Red Whale”. Panoramic
window towards the railway. There are often few free places.
2 Food
court in the Perlovsky shopping center.
3 Food court in the June
shopping center.
4 KFC.
Average cost
A number of
medium-cost chain establishments are also located in shopping centers.
5 Exprompto, Novomytishchisky Prospekt, 34/2 (intersection with
Mira Street, Mira Square). ☎ +7 (495) 583-15-13. 10:00–24:00. Pizzeria
(“trattoria”) on the main square with a cozy interior.
6 Grand
Maran, st. Vera Voloshina, 52a. ☎ +7 (495) 581-95-39 open from 12:00.
lunch from 700 rub. A single traveler is unlikely to need such a serious
restaurant, which is designed, rather, for banquet service. But if you
come across it right along the road, then it can be used for a simple
lunch. The menu includes dishes of Georgian and Armenian cuisine, as
well as signature dishes. The menu, however, is clearly incomplete: a
conversation with the waiter will reveal a lot of interesting things. A
bit pricey for the mid-price category, but the quality of food and
service are up to par.
There are several hotels in Mytishchi, but if you need more choice,
then Moscow and the surrounding cities of Korolev, Shchelkovo,
Ivanteevka can provide it.
Average cost
There are mini-hotels
in the city: Hotel “Gerda”, Hotel “Caliber”, Hotel “Zhar”
Expensive
Hotel Lecco, yacht clubs in the suburbs.
The city is divided into parts by railway, Yaroslavskoe highway and Volkovskoe highway. Pedestrian crossings have been built across the highway and railway. The railway is fenced, however, traffic rules must be observed in the city. Pedestrian crossings across the streets are very long, some with intervals of about 200 seconds. There are no benches on the streets.
Mobile operators Beeline, Megafon, MTS, Tele-2.
Free Wi-Fi is
available in the central park and many establishments; wired Internet
(for a fee) is available in libraries.
The immediate predecessor of the city of Mytishchi was the village of
Bolshie Mytishchi, which grew on the site of the village of Yauzskoe
Mytishche, known in the 15th century.
The name comes from the
so-called myt duty (or “myt”), which was levied on traders traveling by
portage from Yauza to Klyazma. When at the beginning of the 14th century
the city of Kolomna passed from the Ryazan princes into the possession
of the Moscow princes, it became possible to use a more convenient and
shorter (about a kilometer) portage from the Nerskaya River to the Ushna
River. In this regard, navigation along the Yauza stopped, the
collection of myt was transferred to Moscow, and the place where they
were once collected began to be called Yauza Mytishche. The word
“mytishche” does not mean a big wash. It is formed by analogy with other
similar words. So, for example, a conflagration is a place where there
was a fire, ashes and a stove - where there was a residential building
with a stove and a hearth, a settlement - where there was a city. Thus,
“Mytishche” is the place where the person was washed.
In the 18th
century, Bolshie Mytishchi was a transit point for Empress Elizabeth
Petrovna. She rested in it on her way to a pilgrimage to the
Trinity-Sergius Lavra.
This area has long been famous for good
drinking water and a large number of wells. It is known that thanks to
the tasty and clean water, the famous tea parties of pilgrims took place
here, as well as the feasting of people who specially came here from
Moscow to relax. One of these tea parties is depicted in the painting by
artist Vasily Perov “Tea Party in Mytishchi.”
By the end of the
18th century, Moscow's need for drinking water increased so much that
Empress Catherine II was forced to give instructions to find
sufficiently rich sources of drinking water near the city. Survey work
began in 1778, and already in 1780 the Mytishchi springs provided Moscow
with 330 thousand buckets of water annually through three aqueducts -
Mytishchi, Ichkovsky and Rostokinsky. Since 1804, the Mytishchi water
supply system began to operate. In Moscow, at the Krestovskaya outpost,
where the water towers stood and the pipes of the Mytishchi water supply
system ran, in the 19th century streets were built, called the 1-3rd
Mytishchi, as well as Mytishchi passage.
In the middle of the
19th century, the first enterprises were organized in Mytishchi; in
1861, a railway came through Mytishchi, and in 1896, S.I. Mamontov’s
carriage building plant began operating; Since 1908, the first
artificial silk factory in Russia, Viscose, began operating. In the
second half of the 19th - early 20th centuries, Mytishchi and
surrounding villages became popular summer cottage destinations.
Mytishchi has had city status since August 17, 1925.
In 1929, the
second electrified section in the USSR “Moscow - Mytishchi” at a direct
current of 1.5 kV was put into operation.
In 1932, the territory
of the city was significantly expanded: according to the resolution of
the Presidium of the Moscow Regional Executive Committee No. 8 (Minutes
No. 56) dated October 4, 1932 and the approving resolution of the
Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee dated November
20, 1932, the villages of Bolshie Mytishchi, Rupasovo, Sharapovo,
Zarechnaya Sloboda were included in it , Leonidovka, Perlovka, Taininsky
settlements, Druzhba and Taininka.
In 2015, it received the
status of a city of regional subordination.
The city of Mytishchi is located on the southern slope of the Klinsko-Dmitrovskaya Upland, on a slightly undulating and flat low plain with a general slope to the east.
The rivers Yauza, Sukromka, Borisovka (a tributary of Sukromka), Rabotnya, Ichka (in the Losiny Ostrov NP) flow through the city, and there are also several ponds (Rupasovskie Ponds, a pond near the intersection of Sukromka and Letnaya streets in Alekseevsky Square, a pond in near the intersection of Olimpiysky Prospekt and 4350th passage, Komissarovsky Pond near the intersection of Club and Naberezhnaya streets).
Moscow and the Moscow region belong to the temperate climate zone.
Average annual temperature +4.8 °C; absolute minimum −43 °С, absolute
maximum +38 °С. The average estimated temperature of the coldest month
is −8.8 °C. The average maximum temperature of the hottest month is
+23.8 °C. The average long-term temperature of the upper soil layers (at
a depth of 0.2 m) reaches +18.9 °C in July, and −6.2 °C in
January-February.
The appearance of snow cover is observed (on
average) from November 3, the formation of stable cover - from November
26. The destruction of the cover begins on average on April 6, snow
melts on April 11. Snow cover persists for approximately 140 days. Its
height during the winter period increases from 2-5 cm in November to
30-40 cm in the second or third ten days of February.
In the
Losiny Ostrov NP zone, up to 677 mm of precipitation falls annually. The
number of days with precipitation is 182-183. The average number of days
with different types of glaciation per year is 24.
The average
monthly wind speed ranges from 1.7 to 4.0 m/s, the average for the year
in the VDNKh area is 2.2 m/s, in Losiny Ostrov - 3.5 m/s. The highest
wind speeds are observed in winter. The predominant winds in the annual
course are southern, southwestern and western directions; in the period
from June to October, westerly winds clearly predominate.
Directly on the territory of the city are located:
Central Park of
Culture and Recreation of the City of Mytishchi (CPKiO Mytishchi),
Emperor Nicholas II Park,
Square named after G. M. Strekalova,
Veterans Boulevard,
Alley of Veterans,
Keshina Alley (in memory of
Innokenty Samokhvalov),
Leonidovka Park,
alley on the street
Academician Kargin,
square on Trudovy Lane,
dendrological park
MSUL,
green area in the Rupasovsky Ponds area,
Perlovsky Park,
Yauza Park
floodplains of the Yauza, Sukromka, Borisovka rivers.
The city is adjacent to the Pirogovsky Forest Park and the Mytishchi
Forest Park on the northern side, and the Losiny Ostrov National Park on
the eastern side.
Until recently, Mytishchi also had the Summer
Garden of the Carriage Plant, landscaped in the 1930s on the site of the
former Chelnokovsky Park. Now almost its entire territory is covered by
the Fregat shopping and entertainment center and Olympic Avenue; only a
few old linden trees have survived.