Golitsyn Ponds. Street Fishing Moments
After a tiring day at work or on a day off, Muscovites like to come to the Golitsyn pond. It is located on the right bank of the Moskva River in the famous Moscow Gorky Park. In this corner of nature there is everything that can make your vacation pleasant and unforgettable.
The embankment of the Golitsinsky Pond has been restored and ennobled, it is lined with wood. There are cozy sun loungers, wooden benches and tables right next to the water. You can sunbathe, relax, surf the Internet - for the comfort of guests there are sockets and free wi-fi is perfectly caught. So you can fruitfully combine work and leisure away from stuffy offices.
It is very interesting that there are a lot of different fish in this city pond. Some species were specially launched into the reservoir for its cleaning. For example, silver carp and grass carp have taken root perfectly in the Golitsyn pond, they reach a decent size. Fishermen with fishing rods are also frequent guests here - fishing is not prohibited here.
At the disposal of fans of water walks there are boats and catamarans, where you can sail alone, as a couple or in a small company. The area of the pond is quite extensive. You can not only plow its expanses, but also feed the local feathered inhabitants, swans and ducks, who are not at all afraid of a person and favorably accept his gifts.
Golitsynsky Pond is a favorite place for Moscow couples in love. In the evenings it is especially romantic here. Clean air, the sun hiding in the cool waters, the quiet rustle of coastal plants beckon young and not very romantics to sit on the shore, admiring the sunset. And when the sun has hidden, you can look at the shimmering pond, slightly illuminated by multi-colored lamps. There is silence around, and a light summer breeze stirs the leaves of trees invisible in the darkness. Reeds, reeds, multi-colored water lilies and lilies are planted along the cozy embankment, which gives the landscape a special charm and sophistication. If you wish, you can hide from prying eyes and enjoy a wonderful evening in solitude.
Golitsynsky Pond is very loved by Muscovites. This is one of the most picturesque places in Moscow, successfully combining the beauty and purity of Russian nature with the achievements of modern civilization. It makes sense to come here at any time of the year, and even in bad weather, here you can relax mentally away from the smog and dust of a big city.
The current Chistye Prudy are located on the top of a gentle hill. Such places were characterized by swamps and small rivers flowing from them. On the “clean” everything was like that - the streams formed the Rachka River, which was a tributary of the Yauza. With the growth of Moscow, the reservoir was drained, and the wall of the White City built in the 16th century cut Rachka. Since it was forbidden to build houses in the lowland in front of the wall, a famous pond appeared at this place at the turn of the 16th-17th centuries.
The reservoir was called Pogany Pond, and there are several versions about the appearance of such a dissonant name. According to one of them, in this area the pagans worshiped their gods, and the word “filthy”, which came from the Latin “paganus” (pagan), characterized not something dirty, but a pagan. According to another version, the place of the future Moscow was previously occupied by the possessions of the boyar Stepan Kuchka, who inappropriately received Prince Yuri Dolgoruky. For this, the prince ordered the boyar to be killed and his body to be drowned in a pond, after which the reservoir received the name "Bad".
However, according to the most famous version,
the pond began to be called Pogany, as merchants from butcher shops on Myasnitskaya Street dumped production waste into it. In the summer, when an incredible heat hung over the capital, fetid odors hovered over the reservoir, and people tried to avoid it.
Prince Alexander Menshikov put an end to the dirty past of the pond. After the favorite of Peter I bought a mansion near Pogany Pond, he decided to clear the reservoir, strictly forbidding it to be polluted. And the butchers left Myasnitskaya Street. Since then, the ponds have been called Clean. However, historians claim that Menshikov cleared the ponds that were not known to us, located behind the White Wall, but those that were located in the depths of the quarter. Now in their place is Chistoprudny Boulevard and a pedestrian zone.
Familiar to every Muscovite, Chistye Prudy appeared later. Their first mention is in the documents of the Catherine era, devoted to plans for the destruction of the walls of the White City and the construction of the boulevard. Three ponds were noted there, but after the Patriotic War of 1812, only one was equipped. Despite this, in the popular memory the name was preserved in the plural.
In 1820, Chistoprudny Boulevard was built near the ponds. It became the second longest after Tverskoy: its length was 822 meters. The boulevard was inhabited by people of different social strata: from the Moscow nobility, who built luxurious mansions along the inner side of the street, to the townspeople and merchants, who built up the outer side with their yards. At the same time, the tradition of festivities along Chistoprudny Boulevard has remained since the time of Griboyedov and Pushkin.
Until 1958, a boat station worked at Chistye Prudy: in the summer it was possible to ride a boat. In winter, when the ice froze, everyone who wanted to take them on "clean" skates. In 1960, the banks of the ponds were reinforced with stones and then with concrete.
Fortunately, the transformations of the Soviet era did not affect Chistoprudny Boulevard:
buildings have not changed their appearance since the end of the 19th century. For example, the Coliseum cinema, designed by architect Roman Klein, is still located at 19A Chistoprudny Boulevard, only now it houses the Sovremennik Drama Theatre.
Chistye Prudy may have become one of the most mentioned Moscow reservoirs in Russian literature. So, for example, Yuri Nagibin called the ponds "the focus of the most beautiful", which filled his childhood, "the most joyful and saddest, because the sadness of childhood was also beautiful." He called the famous ponds a school of nature: “We fished here, and it happened that not just a black leech wriggled on a hook, but a real silver bait. And it was a miracle to catch a fish in the city center.”
The writer also noted that in his time
among the boys there was the title of "chistoprudnye". It gave the right to fish, ride a boat, climb ice boulders in winter and build snow fortresses.
Only those who lived on the boulevard could earn it: the inhabitants of the nearby lanes were denied the title. “Not only could we not approach the pond, but simply crossing the boulevard on the way to school was fraught with considerable risk. A broken nose, a purple bruise under the eye, a hat torn from the head is the usual retribution for insolence, ”wrote Nagibin.
Patriarch's Ponds
Patriarch's Ponds is not only the name of the famous reservoir itself, but also the surrounding square and residential microdistrict, on the territory of which there are three churches, a synagogue and more than 15 embassies.
In place of the "patricks" there used to be a goat swamp. It got its name either because of the goats grazing here in huge numbers, or because of the proximity to the place where goat wool was processed and delivered to the royal and patriarchal courts. However, there is also a conspiracy theory, according to which it was not the goats, but the intrigues that the evil spirits repaired by the inhabitants of these places.
Allegedly, on the site of a swamp in ancient times, pagan priests drowned their victims, and before that they often cut off their heads. Patriarch's ponds, an hour of an unprecedentedly hot sunset, a severed head - it reminds me of something ...
At the beginning of the 17th century, Patriarch Hermogenes decided to build his residence on the Goat Bog. So, in its place, the Patriarchal Sloboda appeared, which included several churches. In 1683, the clergy ordered to dig three ponds for breeding fish for the patriarchal table: two on Presnya, where expensive varieties of fish were bred, and one on the Goat swamp, where cheaper livestock were launched.
Subsequently, the Patriarchal Sloboda fell into decay. The ponds were started up, and the area became swampy again. They were remembered only in the first half of the 19th century: then it was decided to bury the old reservoirs and leave one decorative pond. A square was laid out around it and began to be called "Boulevard of the Patriarch's Pond".
The spring flood of 1897, which seriously polluted the pond, made the Moscow authorities seriously think about the "perfect filling" of the reservoir.
The City Duma argued that the existence of a pond in "a densely populated area does not cause any real need." The story ended well: the "patricks" were spared and decided to fill it with fresh Mytishchi water.
The skating rink on the Patriarch's Ponds, built on the frozen surface of the reservoir and so beloved by Muscovites today, gained its popularity at the end of the 19th century. It is known that, for example, the writer Leo Tolstoy took his daughters there to skate in winter.
It is noteworthy that the Soviet authorities, as part of the fight against religion, renamed the Patriarch's Pond into Pionersky, and with it the Patriarch's Lane, located in the neighborhood. However, despite the renaming, the people continued to call the pond Patriarchal.
Golitsyn pond
Today Golitsynsky Pond can rightly be called the heart of Gorky Park. The reservoir consists of the Big and Small ponds, which are connected by a narrow isthmus. Work on its creation began in 1954.
During the entire period of its existence, the reservoir changed its name several times: in Soviet times, the pond was called Pioneer, but after the collapse of the USSR, its historical name was returned to it, and the pond at the main entrance to the park was called Pioneer. The pond retained the name of Prince Dmitry Golitsyn, who created the Golitsyn Hospital for the Poor in 1802 (today the First City Hospital).
In the 30s of the 20th century, waterfowl were brought into the pond: among them were two swans with black necks of a rare breed. Currently, the birds delight visitors to the park only in summer: in winter they are carefully moved to special houses. Until recently, the Golitsyn reservoir was completely covered with algae. This problem was solved by 400 kg of fish released into the water by the management of the park. It was she who cleared the pond of silt and algae. Today, silver carp, carp, crucian carp, perch and white carp live in the pond. Reeds, reeds and water lilies are planted along the shore.
Nearby is the so-called "Island of Dance". Now it is not used for its intended purpose, but in the 1930s one of the most beautiful stages in the park was located here.
On the shore, on the site of the modern Ostrovok cafe, there was an amphitheater for spectators (about 700 seats). There one could watch a performance, a ballet, an opera, and artists from the Bolshoi Theater often performed on stage.
Today, the large area of the reservoir gives the townspeople the opportunity to rent catamarans at the boat station. The main thing is not to disturb the peace of the graceful swans and ducks, the real owners of the Golitsyn pond. Near the pond there are sun loungers and benches: feel free to land on them and have a picnic. Park Wi-Fi and sockets located next to the sunbeds will help you stay connected. In the evenings, lamps will create a romantic atmosphere, slightly illuminating the water surface of the pond.
Ostankino pond
The Ostankino pond was dug at the beginning of the 17th century in the floodplain of the Ostankino stream. He has two more names - Palace and Akterkin. He received the second during the time of Count Sheremetev, who in the middle of the 18th century built a fortress theater near the pond. According to legend, actresses, tired of a hard life, illness and oppression, committed suicide by drowning in a pond.
However, some historians note that notoriety swept the Ostankino pond long before the sad fate of serf artists. According to some reports,
on the site of the reservoir in the past there was a suicide cemetery, and later - a German Protestant one. From this, historians conclude that the name of the area comes from the word "remains".
It was also emphasized that in ancient times the pagans performed sacrificial rituals at the same place. And, according to one of the mystical versions, restless souls are allegedly pushing the inhabitants of the Ostankino district to commit suicide at the present time.
On the site of the cemetery today there is a small building of the television center. This arrangement gave rise to legends about the ghost of an old woman who was allegedly buried alive near the pond. The sorceress lived in the 18th century, during the reign of Emperor Paul I. It was she who, according to legend, predicted the death of the autocrat during his visit to the estate of Count Sheremetev. Since then, she allegedly walks around Ostankino and portends trouble. At the same time, it was noted that after the death of the old woman, the peak of suicides began in the serf theater of the count.
If we omit all mysticism, then we can say that in the 18th century the pond was popular among the townspeople. People walked along the shore, rode boats, and also launched fireworks at night near the reservoir. Alleys led Muscovites into the depths of the forest, which used to be a hunting ground. Today, on the pond, you can sit on comfortable benches, feed the ducks, and also try your luck and meet famous TV presenters rushing to work at the Ostankino television center.
Lefortovo ponds
Lefortovo ponds are the main water area of the park of the same name, located in Izmailovo. It appeared in the 18th century as a garden at the palace of Admiral Fyodor Golovin, close associate of Peter I. The park was built by Dutch architects, whom the emperor personally invited to Russia. They installed many dams, red brick terraces and dug ponds, which they later called "Lefortovo".
Each reservoir has its own name: Boot, Northern, Bathhouse, Square, Guitar and Island. Sapozhok Pond is named after its unusual shape, and Guitar Pond used to resemble a church cross, but after the banks “floated” it became like an extended part of a guitar.
Interestingly, the Lefortovo ponds and reservoirs in Izmailovo acted as Chistye Prudy in the 1965 film of the same name directed by Alexei Sakharov based on the works of Yuri Nagibin.
Unfortunately, it is forbidden to swim in the ponds (why disturb the rest of the ducks?), but no one will prevent sunbathing. On warm days, all the banks are filled with sunbathing Muscovites. In summer, in the park, you can see elderly citizens throwing fishing rods: they hunt hybrids of crucian carp and carp. However, Rospotrebnadzor experts argue that fish caught in the pond should not be fed even to a domestic cat.
Where else to go for a walk in warm weather, if not in one of the picturesque parks, where cultural events and entertainment await you among shady alleys and a riot of nature? Portal "ZagraNitsa" will tell about the largest and most comfortable green areas of the city, which are a pleasure to visit!
Gorky Park
The Central Park of Culture and Leisure named after Gorky is considered the main park of the capital, and for good reason - a huge number of people visit its large territory every day. It was founded in 1928, and in 2011 it was subjected to a total reconstruction and today pleases visitors with modern facilities and soft, well-groomed lawns.
Young people will be delighted with the availability of free Wi-Fi, sockets and chargers for gadgets, bike paths, and attractions. Moms will appreciate the playgrounds and the available mother and baby room. Everyone will find entertainment to their liking: from doing yoga on the green grass to watching movies in a cozy summer cinema, which we recently wrote about in the material. Gorky Park is also a venue for various exhibitions, festivals, events for children and adults. Entrance here is free. The park is open around the clock.
Address: st. Krymsky Val, 9, Oktyabrskaya metro station
Boring Garden
The Neskuchny Garden, laid out on the right bank of the Moskva River, is now regarded as part of Gorky Park. This landscape park is one of the oldest in the city and is protected by the state. It got its name from the Neskuchnoye estate of Prince Trubetskoy, located in the park.
The garden is famous for its picturesqueness, amazing nature, beauty of ancient architecture. From the Hunting Lodge located here, the rotunda of the 18th century, live broadcasts of the games “What? Where? When?". As in every park, there are sports and playgrounds, cafes, and even a football field.
Welcome to a quiet and secluded corner of Moscow!
Address: Leninsky Prospekt, 30, metro station "Leninsky Prospekt"
Museon Arts Park
Muzeon is located opposite Gorky Park, on the other side of Krymsky Val Street. It was called the Park of Arts for a reason: after all, this place is the largest open-air sculpture museum in Russia. There are already more than 1,000 unique exhibits on its territory: from monuments of the era of socialist realism to various types of modern contemporary art.
But this is not all the attractions of the park. In recent years, Muzeon has become an important cultural venue in the city: concerts, festivals, educational projects in the field of art and design are regularly held here. On the territory of the park there is the Central House of Artists, a comfortable summer cinema, the School pavilion. Be sure to take a walk along the pedestrian Krymskaya embankment, which was turned into a modern landscape park during the reconstruction.
Address: st. Krymsky Val, 2, Oktyabrskaya metro station
Izmailovsky park
Izmailovsky Park occupies a huge green area, making up most of the Izmailovo district. The park consists of two parts: the Izmailovo Park of Culture and Leisure with attractions and restaurants, and the Izmailovo Forest Park, which looks like a real forest with a pine forest, birch groves, beautiful clearings and ponds.
Address: Bolshoy Krug alley, 7, Izmailovskaya, Highway Enthusiasts, Partizanskaya metro stations
Victory Park
One of the world's largest memorial complexes dedicated to the victory in the Great Patriotic War is located on Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow. The park was solemnly opened for the 50th anniversary of the Victory on May 9, 1995. Also is one of the main venues in the capital for many public events.
Victory Park is a system of alleys, the main one, "Years of War", is decorated with 1418 fountains - exactly as long as the war lasted. Fountains are located on five water terraces, symbolizing five years of hostilities. And in the center of the park there is an obelisk 141.8 meters high with a statue of the goddess Nike at the top and a sculpture of St. George the Victorious, striking a snake at the foot with a spear. The Museum of the Great Patriotic War located here is the central object of the park.
Address: st. Brothers Fonchenko, 7, metro station "Park Pobedy"
Sokolniki Park"
One of the oldest large parks in Moscow is located on the territory of the Sokolniki district. After the reconstruction in 2011, it was significantly transformed: lawns were renewed, ponds and picnic areas were landscaped, sidewalks were tiled, a summer cinema and theater were restored, a large rose garden was opened, sports grounds, bike paths, and an extreme park were opened. And last month, the long-awaited project "The Pool" was opened here with two pools of Italian and German production for lovers of beach holidays and parties.
Address: st. Sokolnichesky Val, 1, building 1, Sokolniki metro station
Fili Park
Filevsky Park of Culture and Leisure stretches along the floodplain of the Moscow River. In the old picturesque park, founded in the 18th century at the Naryshkins' estate, beautiful oak forests, alleys and ponds have been preserved. A variety of educational and recreational activities, exhibitions and festivals are held on the territory of this place. Fili Park is full of attractions, sports and playgrounds, there is also a beautiful embankment, an art studio, and a summer cinema.
Address: st. Bolshaya Filevskaya, 22, building 1, metro stations "Filyovsky Park", "Bagrationovskaya"
Park "Kuzminki"
The park of culture and recreation "Kuzminki", the main part of which is occupied by the former estate of the same name, was created in 1977 in the northern part of the Kuzminskiy forest park. Today, on the territory of one of the greenest and most picturesque places in the city, there is everything you need for a pleasant and comfortable stay: sports and playgrounds, a skate park, attractions, a romantic square of lovers, gazebos and many other equally interesting objects. Visit free yoga, dance or English classes, combining a useful activity with a walk along the alleys of the park.
Address: st. District, 1, metro stations "Volzhskaya", "Kuzminki"
I have repeatedly addressed the topic of fishing in the very center of the capital. In the previous issues of the magazine, my articles were published about perch on the Vodootvodny Canal, about catching pike perch in midnight Moscow, about jig rigs for street fishing in the capital. But with each fishing experience is gained, new details and observations appear, fishing places and baits - all that makes fishing brighter, more emotional. In this article I will share my discoveries, I hope that it will be interesting to someone.
Spinners in the center of Moscow
It would seem that fishing with this type of bait is not very compatible with high parapets and cunning fish in the center of Moscow. But it is not so. Spinners have some absolutely wonderful qualities.
Firstly, they are very fast in terms of catching the territory, which allows you to quickly skim the cream off the fishing area and go home after a hard day's work, rested and having received your portion of happiness.
Secondly, a spinner in the center of Moscow is a bait, as they say, "shooting". It happens that she overplays the most sophisticated wobblers and the most “edible” soft plastic baits with a large margin. Why this happens, you need to ask the fish, I'm just stating a fact.
Thirdly, a spinner is a bait, the wind has less influence on the wiring and control of which than, say, a jig or a jerky wobbler.
In fact, spinners intersect quite noticeably with cranks, which I talked about in the last issue of the magazine. But sometimes they catch "fatties", so it is advisable to have at least a few of them in your arsenal. Spinners can be used when fishing both from piers and from high embankments. If fishing from berths is generally understandable, then for fishing from high embankments I can give a couple of tips. Look at the photo below. This is a typical coastal section of the Moskva River in summer and early autumn, overgrown with egg-pods. Corridors are clearly visible from the high embankment, along which you can draw a spinner between plants. Here we, street fishers, need to find the lure's trajectory between sections of thickets, just as when fishing with "foam rubber", the angler gropes for corridors between snags. Although not necessarily a lure, this also applies to cranks and jerky wobblers!
And further. A spinner does not have a blade that would deepen it, therefore, under these conditions, "turntables" with a heavy core are in great demand. They are easier to carry out at the required depth with the required speed. But models with heavy cores often do not start well in calm water or very weak currents. The exception is "turntables" from c tungsten core, which in the name have the index TB (Tungsten Body - tungsten core). The petal in all sizes on the models that I happened to catch starts with half a turn, and there’s no need to talk about options without a tungsten core.
From my point of view, for fishing in the center of Moscow, you need to have models in size from # 00 () to # 3 (). This is enough to feel confident standing on the piers almost at the water's edge, as well as on the high embankment with a decent breeze.
Catching on points or about cancer Issei BiBiBi Bug
If you take a walk along the Moskva River in the evening from the Kyiv metro station to the Delovoy Tsentr station, you will find several absolutely killer points. In this area, in several places there are plums with a very good water pressure. These are the so-called superpoints, which need to be given the closest attention. The fish loves the current, so perch and goby often stand in the pit under the drain, asp and chub are pulled up. But if the white predator in the center of Moscow is a complex and unstable fish, then it is always possible to “pull” a couple of “tails” of a perch without leaving the spot. In addition, in this area there are floating restaurants - various river vessels converted, and where they stood, a corresponding relief was formed. Fishing at such restaurants is one of my favorite types of street fishing. The authorities of the capital are fighting with them, so today every restaurant is worth its weight in gold. I remember that in an article about fishing in such places on Frunzenskaya Embankment, which, by the way, is now completely cleared of restaurants, I voiced general recommendations and advised several killer baits, but time is running out ... Something new has appeared in the materiel, for example, “ silicone" cancer from the brilliant Japanese designer and developer Haruhiko Murakami 2.6 '' (6.6 cm) long, which I already mentioned. This summer season I caught a large number of fish on it, so I can safely say: this is a very, very cool bait! It is clearly something mixed with attractants, because the perch directly chews. Once I pulled out a perch that was hanging on the tail of a crayfish!
Fishing by points on the Issei BiBiBi Bug.
But with a goby, I made a discovery for myself - small trout “vibrations”. Technically, everything is very simple: casting along the concreted coast or a little obliquely from it. We are waiting for the moment the spinner falls to the bottom and we begin to slowly turn the handle of the reel so that the bait goes near the bottom, often touching it. Or another option: we carry out a “oscillator” with small tosses or pulls with the tip of the spinning rod above the bottom. This beast on the wire hits the “oscillator” with all its might! With soft plastic on the hook, the bites become noticeably larger, but I like to use the spinners in their original form. Try it!
While fishing on the Small Golitsinsky Pond, I got into a conversation with a lady selling ice cream at a nearby kiosk. She advised me to go to Catherine's Pond, because "when I worked there, every now and then someone splashed in the pond." Of course I went. Ekaterininsky Pond - a tiny shallow pond with water filtered to the purity of tears by a large amount of algae. Where could the fish come from? I probably would not have made a cast if I had not seen a pike of a kilogram and a half on the surface, which had departed to another world ... It was a sign that there might be fish here! Believe it or not, I caught a couple of perches there and saw a few more, including a small pike. Again on the turntables from - reliable, like a Kalashnikov assault rifle! Do not pass by this pond, just let the fish go.
Catching a bull with a ValkeIN Circle “micro-wobbler” was the opening of the season for me!
By the way, there is a monument to street fishers near it! I'm kidding, of course...
There is also Andreevsky Pond in the Neskuchny Garden, but we are not interested in it yet. By all indications, the pond was recently put in order, our fish are not there, only flocks of neglected crucian carp.
My faithful assistants on street fishing in the summer season were two spinning rods that complemented each other: with a test of up to 5 g and more powerful - up to 10.5 g. I already somehow talked about the first rod in relation to micro jig fishing, but today I want to note that it is great for fishing on the smallest spinners, the game of which is transmitted both to the tip of the rod and to the hand, as well as to small trout “spinners” from 1.5 g and small cranks. I have views on this rod in terms of sea fishing and pond trout fishing. But more on that next time.
The ValkeIN Li Worm mini-vibe turned out to be very working for perches in the center of Moscow.
But with regard to up to 10.5 g, I would like to say a few words. In recent years, quite a few “lights” 7-7’6’’ long have passed through my hands with a conditional test up to 12 g in a wide variety of price categories. made an indelible impression on me. Definitely one of the best rods I've come across! He has a throwing blank, the work of "turntables" of even the smallest sizes is transferred to his hand. works great with small cranks (crank) and deep sheds (shad) and minnow (minnow) up to 65-70 mm, jig wiring from 5 g is controlled by hand. Very, very loud rod! I strongly recommend this model to those who are looking for a light spinning rod for all types of lures. Very strongly!
See you in the center of Moscow!
Golitsynskiye Prudy (Moscow, Russia) - detailed description, location, reviews, photo and video.
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The most romantic place in the park. Gorky in Moscow is, without a doubt, the Golitsyn Ponds. There are two of them - Big and Small, separated by a narrow isthmus. Under Soviet rule, they were renamed Pioneer and heavily littered. During the recent reconstruction of the park, almost half a ton of carp, carp, perch and silver carp had to be released into the water. The fish quickly cleared the ponds of silt and algae. The ponds were returned to their former name, the banks were ennobled, the boat pier was repaired. On weekends, crowds of people rest here, but on weekdays, peace and quiet.
Golitsyn Ponds today
Golitsyn ponds are surrounded by green alleys with numerous bridges and benches. Kiosks with ice cream and fast food are placed along the shore, multi-colored water lilies grow in the water near the shore. There is a rental station for water bicycles-catamarans. Whole flocks of ducks immediately swim up to the flapping of the blades for refreshments, sometimes majestic swans, white or black, appear, so you can grab some bread with you.
Music is heard from the terrace of the Ostrovok restaurant. At dusk, underwater lamps turn on, and the pond becomes like a fairy-tale kingdom. There is also a traditional humpbacked bridge, on the railing of which couples hang padlocks with wishes, but vigilant guards quickly remove them from there. There are a lot of people with laptops and tablets on the garden benches, next to it is a brand new playground.
Early in the morning you can meet fishermen on the shore. Officially, fishing is not prohibited, but the fish is spoiled with the remains of duck meals, so it is not good to catch. If you're lucky, you'll come across some very large specimens.
