Bitsevsky Park is a huge picturesque area, the second largest after Losiny Island, a natural and historical park in Moscow. Its area is 2208.4 hectares, so the Bitsevsky forest is located on the territory of two districts of Moscow - Yuzhnoye Chertanovo and Yasenevo.
Bitsevsky Park is a historical forest park area near ponds in Moscow
Bitsevsky Park has environmental, recreational, environmental, educational and historical and cultural significance as a particularly valuable, large and integral natural-territorial complex. It is distinguished by its natural diversity, the presence of rare species of plants and animals, and favorable conditions for recreation in a natural environment.
Description
Bitsevsky Park is a luxurious natural planting that has environmental value. On its vast territory there are preserved ancient estates (17-19 centuries), as well as the famous Vyatichi burial mounds. Thanks to the owner of the famous noble estate Znamenskoye-Sadki, who planted many trees, the park boasts tall pine forests and especially valuable spruce forests. Other estates - Yasenevo and Uzkoe (today there is a sanatorium here, there is a comfortable hotel nearby), are monuments of park architecture.
Bitsevsky Park is a favorite place for picnics and walks for citizens. But the Bitsevsky Forest gained its first fame thanks to the scandalous exhibition of Soviet avant-garde artists that took place here in 1974. The authorities bulldozed the exhibition site, destroyed the paintings, and arrested the participants. Since the events took place in September, the artists began to be called “Septemberists.”
Bitsevsky Park metro station is the final station of the Butovskaya line, newly built (2014). It took ten whole years to build, although actual active work was carried out only in the last 3 years. Now, to get to Bitsevsky Park, all you have to do is take a metro car.
Bitsevsky Park how to get there
By public transport:
Bitsevsky Forest Park is huge, and there are many public transport stops nearby.
We will consider the main entrance to the park to be the entrance from the Novoyasenevskaya metro station. It is located directly behind the Bitsevsky market. From the metro you need to walk about 400 meters along Novoyasenevsky Prospekt to the entrance to the park. You can also walk from the metro towards the Church of Peter and Paul (see photo No. 2 below) and, going around the church territory on the right, enter the forest park.
Near the park there is a public transport stop “Bitsevsky Market” (Bus No. 262, 648, 651 Trolleybus No. 81 and Minibus 262m).
By car:
When choosing a route, you can focus on the address of the building located in close proximity to the Bitsevsky Forest park: Moscow, Novoyasenevsky Prospekt, 27.
See the map below. You can leave your car in the parking lot located around the market.
(Detailed description and photo gallery of Bitsevsky Park)
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And then you go out onto the wide path again
Did you have a good walk in the summer forest?
Bitsevsky Park (Moscow)
Bitsevsky forest (park) is one of the largest parks in Moscow (more than 2208 hectares). Now this is a huge forest area, with equipped paths and benches. This does not interfere with housing in the animal park. In addition to birds, you can find squirrels, hedgehogs, and moles in the park.
Bitsevsky Park is located in the southwest of Moscow.
Nearest metro stations: Bitsevsky Park, Novoyasenevskaya, Yasenevo, Konkovo, Belyaevo, Chertanovskaya, Yuzhnaya, Prazhskaya, Academician Yangelya Street, Anino.
In Bitsevsky Park there are many asphalt and dirt alleys, which are comfortable to walk even in muddy times.
The Chertanovka River flows through the park.
Notable
Lysaya Gora (Uzkoe Sports Complex)
Bald Mountain is a mountain located on Sevastopolsky Avenue, on the side opposite from property 66 (Medical Center of the Bank of Russia).
Services offered: Rental, instructor service, luggage storage.
Nearest metro: Yasenevo, Konkovo. There is a small free parking lot near Bald Mountain. Website: rass-s.ru
In summer, Bald Mountain is a favorite place for bicycle lovers. Bald Mountain is especially loved by the so-called bikers - cyclists who ride down the mountains at high speed. There are springboards for this risky hobby.
Pedestrian and bicycle zone
Pedestrian and bicycle zone - runs from Miklouho-Maklaya Street (from Sevastopolsky Avenue) to Chertanovo. There are paved paths for pedestrians and cyclists, and many sports grounds.
To get to the pedestrian and bicycle zone from the Belyaevo metro station, move along Miklouho-Maclay Street towards Sevastopolsky Avenue. When you reach Sevastopolsky Avenue (you will see a roundabout), cross the avenue at the traffic light and move straight along a wide clearing (there will be a forest to your left and right). After 100 m you will see walking and cycling paths. You can drive or walk along the marked route to the Chertanovskaya metro station (grey metro line).
Along the route there are numerous paths in the forest. If you wish, you can turn along any of them and take a walk. Just try not to get lost. The territory of Bitsevsky Park is huge.
Uzkoye Estate
Uzkoe Estate - there is a beautiful forested area and a complex of cascading ponds. The buildings of the ancient Uzkoye estate have been preserved.
“Uzkoe” is located near Sanatornaya Alley and Tyutchevskaya Alley. You can get to Uzkoye on foot from the Konkovo or Teply Stan metro stations.
Ponds
Ponds - there are several ponds on the territory of Bitsevsky Park. For example, two picturesque ponds are located in the part of the park located near Balaklava Avenue (the coordinates of one of the ponds are 55.639402, 37.562894). The ponds are equipped with paths and benches. There are houses for ducks on the ponds, which can be observed in spring and summer.
Silver keys
Abandoned bunker
An abandoned bunker is located near Bald Mountain. To find the bunker, you need to move from Bald Mountain deep into the forest about 500 m.
Equestrian sports complex "Bitsa"
The Bitsa equestrian complex was built for the XXII Olympic Games in 1980 next to the park. Olympic competitions in equestrianism and modern pentathlon were held here. Located at: Balaklavsky Prospekt, building 33. Nearest metro station: Chertanovskaya.
Boundary post 1909
The boundary post of 1909 is located next to Bald Mountain. This is a monument to the Stolypin reform. Such pillars were erected en masse in 1909, when land surveying of the Moscow district was carried out after the law of November 9, 1908. Only individual examples of such pillars have survived to this day.
Yasenevo Estate
Yasenevo Estate (Novoyasenevsky Prospekt, 27. Novoyasenevskaya metro station) - The estate building has been preserved - the main house with outbuildings in the Baroque style. The building was built in the first half of the 18th century. Opposite the manor house is the Church of Peter and Paul (1750s). In this temple on July 9, 1822, Leo Tolstoy’s parents, Count Nikolai Ilyich Tolstoy and Princess Maria Nikolaevna Volkonskaya, were married.
The Parable House, the Marble Pond (according to legend, the bottom of the pond is lined with marble), and Yasenevsky Ponds (a cascade of three ponds) have also been preserved.
How to get there: Novoyasenevskaya metro station, exit left, walk away from the metro, turn left into Bitsevsky Park. After passing it you will see a stable, behind it is the Yasenevo estate.
Znamenskoye-Sadki Estate
The Znamenskoye-Sadki estate (in the Northern Butovo area, near the 36th kilometer of the Moscow Ring Road) is an 18th century estate. The main house and outbuilding have been preserved. In the main house, in good condition, there is a two-tiered hall, called the Rose Hall, or the Mars Hall, after the picturesque ceiling depicting the god Mars racing in a chariot, harnessed to two horses.
The stone building of the laundry has been preserved, near the Bolshoi Znamensky Pond.
On the territory of the estate there are three natural monuments: the Znamensky mixed forest, the Znamensky small spruce forest and the Znamenskaya subor - a tall tall spruce forest and pine forest.
The estate complex is occupied by the All-Russian Research Institute for Environmental Protection.
In 2005-2006, a maniac was operating in the Bitsevsky forest park, who killed elderly people with particular cruelty. The serial killer received the nickname “Bitsevsky maniac.” Currently, the maniac has been caught and convicted.
On the territory of Bitsevsky Park there is a Psychiatric boarding school No. 30 (Dnepropetrovskaya St., 14).
Animals of Bitsevsky Park
In Bitsa Park you can find squirrels, hedgehogs, and moles. There are many birds here. Bitsevsky Park is home to 133 species of terrestrial vertebrates, including 28 species of mammals, 96 species of birds (86 of them are nesting), 3 species of reptiles and 6 species of amphibians 1.
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Bitsevsky Park
Photo of Bitsevsky Park
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Novoyasenevskaya, Bitsevsky Park
Bitsevsky Park is a large forest area in the South-West of Moscow with many streams and ravines. The park has an extensive network of gravel paths. It is good to walk along them even after a heavy rain. There are bridges across many streams.
Nature of the park
The forest park got its name from the Bitsa River, which flows here. And in the park itself there are the sources of three rivers - Chertanovka, Gorodnya and Vodyanka. Bitsevsky Park is a good place for environmental excursions and lessons in biology, botany, zoology and natural history. A large number of birds live here, there are squirrels, hares, amphibians and even wild boars and moose.
If we talk about vegetation, it is heterogeneous in this forest park. Here is the largest meadow in the capital, called “Bald Mountain” with meadow grasses growing on it. There is a very beautiful Central Russian landscape on Bald Mountain; episodes of the film “Secrets of Palace Revolutions” were filmed here.
If you move a little away from the paths, you can forget that you are in the city. There are centuries-old trees all around, insects scurry in the grass, birds fly by, you can see a scurrying squirrel, and if you are very lucky, even a proud elk. There are a lot of ducks near the ponds.
The nature of the forest park is beautiful at any time of the year. To admire and enjoy natural gifts, fresh air and beauty, some come here with their family for a picnic. Others prefer solitary contemplation and a leisurely walk. There are comfortable benches in the park for tired travelers. The surrounding area is very quiet, clean and calm. Mounted police keep order in the forest belt. Occasionally, uniformed riders on beautiful horses passing by blend very harmoniously into the surrounding landscape.
History of creation
People lived on the territory now occupied by the Bitsevsky forest already in ancient times, but we can reliably talk about settlements starting from the 12th century, when the Vyatichi switched to burial mounds.
Seven mound groups have been preserved in the park, which served as cemeteries for small settlements. In the central part of the forest, the remains of two villages dating back to the 13th-15th centuries are also known.
Starting from the end of the 16th century, estates appeared here, which were surrounded by villages. Currently, out of seven estates, only three have survived. The rest left traces in the form of ponds, old trees in manor parks and, very rarely, fragments of building foundations.
In the 19th century, a brick factory appeared in the village of Yasenevo; the raw materials for it were quaternary loams, which were mined in a quarry east of the village on the watershed of the Gorodnya and Bitsa rivers.
More trees grew in the northern part, and isolated groves grew in the southern part. All the old trees here are low-growing and spreading, which indicates their growth in open space. At the beginning of the 20th century, large-scale plantings of spruce were carried out to the north of the Znamenskoye Sadki estate.
In the first half of the 20th century, most of the territory was used for agricultural purposes. During the Great Patriotic War in 1941, a significant part of the forest plantations was cut down to organize defense in a tank-hazardous direction.
Trenches, communication passages, reinforced concrete bunker caps, and anti-tank ditches are still preserved in the forest. Already since 1944, large-scale planting of broad-leaved forest crops began.
In the early 1960s, the southern part of the forest was cut through by the Moscow Ring Road and most of the forest park became part of Moscow. For the 1980 Olympics, the Bitsa Equestrian Sports Complex is being built in the northern part of the forest park.
In May 1992, the first Natural Park in Moscow was created throughout the territory occupied by forest, called “Bitsevsky Forest”, which includes two forest parks - in the northern part of the Olimpiysky and in the southern part of the Yasenevsky.
The forest park got its name from the Bitsa River, which flows here. And in the park itself there are the sources of three rivers - Chertanovka, Gorodnya and Vodyanka. In 2005, the park was given the status of a Natural Historical Park.
