Why this ride
63 km from Petrodvorets to Petrodvorets, about 1 h 14 of riding. The stops in between: The Maximov's Datcha, The Alexandriysky Park and back through The Maximov's Datcha.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Oranienbaumsky Springboard and The Alexandriysky Park
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 63 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 14
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Scenic road chapters
Saint Petersburg Imperial Shore
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 19 km this is Saint Petersburg Imperial Shore, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 19 km
- Named road
- Saint Petersburg Imperial Shore
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Oranienbaumsky Springboard
The Oranienbaum Springboard is not a single building but a piece of ground, and once you know the story the low woods and fields south of the Gulf of Finland look entirely different. In September 1941, as German and Finnish forces closed the ring around Leningrad, a pocket of coast around Oranienbaum, today's Lomonosov, held out. It was cut off from the city by land, supplied across the water and under the guns of Kronstadt, and it never fell. In January 1944 the Second Shock Army broke out of this pocket as one jaw of the offensive that finally lifted the siege.
Read the complete Oranienbaumsky Springboard write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Oranienbaumsky Springboard is where the day begins. Next is The Maximov's Datcha.
2. The Maximov's Datcha
The south shore of the Gulf of Finland west of St Petersburg is a strip of dachas, palaces and old military ground, and the place marked here as Maximov's Datcha sits within it, a couple of kilometres from the town of Lomonosov.
Read the complete The Maximov's Datcha write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
The Maximov's Datcha comes up about 19 km into the recorded legs. Next is The Alexandriysky Park.
3. The Alexandriysky Park
The garden at Alexandria is a nineteenth-century romantic dream laid out at Peterhof for Tsar Nicholas I and his wife, Alexandra, a place of Gothic towers, winding paths and a small cottage palace by the sea. It lies a little to the west of the great fountains of the lower park, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, and its mood is quite different: quiet, wooded and slightly melancholy. The Gothic Chapel, designed in the style of an English country church, stands among the trees, and the Cottage Palace beside it was a family retreat where the emperor could escape the formality of court life.
Read the complete The Alexandriysky Park write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 32 km into the recorded legs you reach The Alexandriysky Park. Next is back through The Maximov's Datcha.
4. back through The Maximov's Datcha
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Maximov's Datcha write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through The Maximov's Datcha, late in the day. Next is Oranienbaumsky Springboard.
5. Oranienbaumsky Springboard
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Oranienbaumsky Springboard write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Oranienbaumsky Springboard. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Oranienbaumsky Springboard to The Maximov's Datcha
Oranienbaumsky Springboard → The Maximov's Datcha is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Maximov's Datcha to The Alexandriysky Park
The Maximov's Datcha → The Alexandriysky Park is 13 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Alexandriysky Park to back through The Maximov's Datcha
The Alexandriysky Park → back through The Maximov's Datcha is 13 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Maximov's Datcha to Oranienbaumsky Springboard
back through The Maximov's Datcha → Oranienbaumsky Springboard is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.