With summer arriving and the
room-temperature increasing in Moscow, you will soon want to take your swimsuit
out of the cupboard and take the plunge! As foreigners, we don’t necessarily
know the best spots to freshen up, and often we don’t even know that some of
them are reachable with public transportation.
Serebriany Bor is one of this few
spots attainable by metro and then by bus. You have different ways to reach
this place, you can take the trolleybus 20,
21, 65 or 86 at the metro Polezhaevskaya
(You can take these trolleybuses at other metro stations including Belorusskaya,
sokol or Begovaya but it will be longer). They stop at the entrance of the
park’s territory so you’ll need to walk a bit to reach beaches 2 and 3. But the easiest and fastest solution is to get “marshrutka” 190 (small bus) from metro Polezhaevskaya.
Source: http://www.s-bor.ru/guide.htm
If you look on the map, you will
see a sign next to which is written “КПП”, it depicts the entrance of Serebriany Bor’s protected zone.
Trolleybuses will stop at this point and you’ll have to walk further. It’s
fairly quick if you go at one of the first beaches, but if you want to reach
the beach n°3 (the best equipped with sport fields and the most popular), it
will be better to take the marshrutka 190 as explained before. Access is free,
except for “VIP” spots. The main territory is open from 9am till 9pm except for
special events.
Source: http://www.s-bor.ru/guide.htm
If you want to gather with
friends and do a barbecue (notably with alcohol, theoretically forbidden inside
the protected area), I advise you to take the path on the left of the road just
after the bridge (stop at the next to last bus stop just after the bridge) and
before the park’s entrance. You will find barbecues available for everyone to
use (20 of them approximately, purple color on the map), it’s a 10-15 minutes
walk from the bus stop. This part of the territory is not in the protected area
so it never closes! Swimming is not legally authorized as it’s unsupervised in
this area but water is rather clean and reaches 25°c in summer!!
If you forgot your swimsuit, you
still can go swim and relax on the beach reserved for nudists that is located
between the beach n°3 and the pink zone drawn on the map!
For more information, you can
always have a look on their official website (in Russian) http://www.s-bor.ru.
If you know any other good place
near Moscow where it’s possible to swim and enjoy a barbecue, do not hesitate
to share in the comments.
Happy swimming!!
