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Podolsk

 

A large city in Moscow oblast just to the South of Moscow. There is an area built up with constructivist and Stalinist apartments near Bolshaya Serpukhovskaya street. There the curious architectural excess was noticed: the coat of arms with typical tassels from Catholic heraldry, with the number corresponding to the title of bishop. But instead of a bishop's galero hat there is a star.

 

Other excesses.

 

School (1953).

 

Stalinist two storey house made of cinder block on Liteinaya Street.

 

Someone lives with a broken window.

 

And someone put cacti on the windowsill, so the cat has nowhere to lie down.

 

The bike path along Bolshaya Serpukhovskaya suddenly ends.

 

On the northeastern outskirts of Podolsk you can look at the Pleshcheyevo estate. The main house (1820) was built on in 1925, when it housed a tuberculosis clinic. Then they made a dormitory there, but since 2010s it is abandoned.

 

Two pairs of entrance obelisks.

 

A "Dutch-style" annex, which was rebuilt into a church in 1992.

 

Near the estate it is worth looking at the suspended bridge across the Pakhra River.

 

Getting in (as of June 2023): take Warshavskoe shosse from Moscow (Podolsk once stood on the 19th century highway to Warsaw). Podolsk is a final stop for D2 line trains (Moscow S-Bahn).

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