CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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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A 173 km round trip from Petrodvorets - roughly 3 h 07 in the saddle. It goes by way of Fort «Paul I», The Park «Nearest Dubki», The I.Repin Estate «The Penates» and back through The Park «Nearest Dubki». The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 27 km this is Saint Petersburg Imperial Shore, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
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.
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Oranienbaumsky Springboard is where the day begins. Next is Fort «Paul I».
To the Russian navy, Kronstadt is the fortress island of Kotlin in the eastern Gulf of Finland, and the forts scattered across the water around it were built to stop any enemy from approaching St Petersburg by sea.
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Fort «Paul I» comes up about 27 km into the recorded legs. Next is The Park «Nearest Dubki».
Dubki simply means little oaks, a common name for a patch of woodland, and the ride titles connect this spot with the Oranienbaum Springboard, which is the south shore, across the water, where a Soviet bridgehead held out through the siege of Leningrad from 1941 to 1944 while the city itself was encircled.
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about 56 km into the recorded legs you reach The Park «Nearest Dubki». Next is The I.Repin Estate «The Penates», 25 km on.
In 1903 the painter Ilya Repin, the most famous Russian artist of his day, moved to a wooden house in the village of Kuokkala on the Gulf of Finland, which he named the Penates, after the Roman household gods. He lived and worked there until his death in 1930, and after Finnish independence in 1917, he found himself living abroad, refusing invitations to return to the Soviet Union. The house, with its glass-roofed studio and eccentric architecture, was destroyed in the Second World War and rebuilt afterwards, and it is now a museum with many of his paintings and possessions.
Read the complete The I.Repin Estate «The Penates» write-up.
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The I.Repin Estate «The Penates», about halfway. Next is back through The Park «Nearest Dubki».
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Park «Nearest Dubki» write-up.
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back through The Park «Nearest Dubki» sits at 99 km, about halfway. Next is back through Fort «Paul I».
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort «Paul I» write-up.
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back through Fort «Paul I» comes up about 142 km into the recorded legs. Next is Oranienbaumsky Springboard.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Oranienbaumsky Springboard write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Oranienbaumsky Springboard closes the day.
Oranienbaumsky Springboard → Fort «Paul I» is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort «Paul I» → The Park «Nearest Dubki» is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Park «Nearest Dubki» → The I.Repin Estate «The Penates» is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The I.Repin Estate «The Penates» → back through The Park «Nearest Dubki» is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Park «Nearest Dubki» → back through Fort «Paul I» is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort «Paul I» → Oranienbaumsky Springboard is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.