Gagarinsky
Distrito
The district of Gagarin Square and Leninsky Prospekt: the Yuri Gagarin monument, the Great Moscow Circus, the St Andrew Monastery and the slopes of the Sparrow Hills.
Foto: Artem Svetlov from Moscow, Russia · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Sobre el distrito
The St Andrew Monastery on the Moskva River is known from the 17th century; in 1648 a school, one of the first in Moscow, was founded here. In the 18th–19th centuries country estates, including Vasilyevskoye, stood on the slopes.
In the 1940s–1950s Leninsky Prospekt was lined with monumental buildings. In 1980 a 42-metre titanium monument to the first cosmonaut was erected on Gagarin Square.
- Distrito administrativo
- Suroeste ókrug administrativo
- Estatus
- Distrito
- Población
- 80.221 (a 2025)
- Superficie
- 5,5 km²
- Estaciones dentro del distrito
- 3
Población según Wikidata en la fecha indicada; superficie calculada a partir del límite de OpenStreetMap; estaciones según su posición dentro del límite.
Qué ver
Yuri Gagarin monument
A titanium figure of the cosmonaut on a tall column, 1980.
St Andrew Monastery
A 17th-century monastery with the Church of the Resurrection in Plennitsy.
Great Moscow State Circus
The circus on Vernadsky Prospekt, opened in 1971.
Vasilyevskoye estate
An estate house on the slopes of the Sparrow Hills.
Dónde pasear
- 01
Andreevskaya embankment
A riverside walk to the monastery.
- 02
Leninsky Prospekt
A route from Gagarin Square past Stalin-era buildings.
Arquitectura
Stalin-era avenues, the Academy of Sciences Presidium building with its “golden brains”, and green slopes above the river.Transporte
En el esquema de transporteCuriosidades
- 01
The Gagarin monument is made of titanium.
- 02
Ploshchad Gagarina MCC station has an interchange with Leninsky Prospekt.
En el mapa
Límites: © colaboradores de OpenStreetMap, ODbL. Límite según OpenStreetMap, noviembre de 2026.