Yasenevo District, Moscow

Name: Yasenevo District
Address: Moscow, Russia

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Yasenevo District is an administrative district of South-Western Administrative Okrug, and one of the 125 raions of Moscow, Russia. The area of the district is 25.4 square kilometers. Population: 172,300. ()

Local name: Ясенево Area: 9.81 mi²Coordinates: 55°35'11"N, 37°31'4"E

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Yasenevo District – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Columbus, Moscow Paleontological Museum, Transvaal Park, Bitsa Park.

3.9 miNE
Shopping, Shopping centre
Columbus, Moscow
100 min walk • Columbus is a shopping center located in Moscow City center, within the Moscow Ring Road.
2.6 miN
Museum, Natural history museum
Moscow Paleontological Museum, Moscow
67 min walk • The Orlov Museum of Paleontology was founded by Paleontological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciencies in 1937 prior to the XVII session of the International Geological Congress. It is named after Yuri Alexandrovich Orlov.
0.9 miNE
Park
Transvaal Park, Moscow
24 min walk • Transvaal Park was a popular waterpark in Yasenevo, a south district of Moscow, Russia. With several large, heated pools, including a wave pool and twisting "river" for tubing, it became one of the most popular attractions in the Moscow area and a symbol of the country's bloom of private enterprise.
2.8 miNE
Park
Bitsa Park, Moscow
72 min walk • Bitsevski Park is one of the largest natural parks in Moscow, Russia. The park, traversed by the Chertanovka River and the Bitsa River, sprawls for some 10 km from north to south and covers the area of 18 square kilometres.
3 miE
Park
Universal Studios Moscow, Moscow
77 min walk • Universal Studios Moscow is an upcoming indoor theme park in Moscow, Russia. It will home rides and attractions based on worldwide well-known pop-culture properties, like Universal-owned library and third-party properties. It will be the second Universal Park in Europe after former Universal Studios Port Aventura.
4.7 miN
Observatories and planetariums
Astro Space Center, Moscow
121 min walk • This enclave of scientific research is officially known as Astro Space Center of PN Lebedev Physics Institute, and is under the purview of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Generally speaking, the space center's mission focuses on astrophysics, which includes cosmology.
2.7 miN
Memorial
Uzkoye, Moscow
69 min walk • Uzkoe is a historic estate in the southwestern part of Moscow. Before 1629, the area belonged to Prince Gagarin, then it passed to Maksim Streshnev, a cousin of Tsarina Eudoxia Streshneva.
2.5 miW
Memorial
Kommunarka shooting ground, Moscow
63 min walk • The Kommunarka firing range, former dacha of secret police chief Genrikh Yagoda, was used as a burial ground from 1937 to 1941.
3.2 miNW
Cemetery
Khovanskoye Cemetery, Moscow
83 min walk • Khovanskoye Cemetery, also known as Nikolo-Khovanskoye Cemetery, is a large and expanding cemetery servicing Moscow, Russia. It is located in the Leninsky District, Moscow Oblast, beyond the Moscow Ring Road, at the 21st kilometre mark of the Kiev Highway by the Mosrentgen and Nikolo-Khovanskoye settlements.
4.6 miN
Universities and schools
Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, Moscow
119 min walk • The Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, also known as RUDN University, is a public research university located in Moscow, Russia.
4.7 miN
Universities and schools
Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia, Moscow
120 min walk • The Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is the senior staff college of the Russian Armed Forces. The academy is located in Moscow, on 14 Kholzunova Lane, not far from the Combined Arms Academy.