CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Shushary it runs 132 km to Shushary; allow about 2 h 28 of riding. It goes by way of P.K.Alexandrov's Datcha, The Maximov's Datcha, Zelenogorsky and back through The Maximov's Datcha. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 25 km this is Saint Petersburg Imperial Shore, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
On the Pulkovo heights, the low ridge south of St Petersburg, an observatory has been watching the sky since 1839. It was founded by Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, the German-born astronomer who became its first director, and it quickly became one of the leading observatories in the world, with the largest refracting telescope of its day. The Pulkovo meridian, running through the observatory's main building, served as the reference for Russian maps for many years. Struve also led the measurement of the Struve Geodetic Arc, a chain of survey triangulations stretching from the Arctic Ocean to the Black Sea, which helped determine the size and shape of the earth and is now a UNESCO site.
Read the complete Pulkovskaya Observatory write-up.
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Pulkovskaya Observatory is where the day begins. Next is P.K.Alexandrov's Datcha, 25 km on.
Strelna lies at the beginning of the road to Peterhof, on the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland, and its main feature is the Konstantinovsky Palace, begun in the reign of Peter the Great and named for a later grand duke, Konstantin. Like Peterhof, it was heavily damaged in the Second World War and later rebuilt, and in the early 2000s it was restored for the three-hundredth anniversary of Saint Petersburg. The park, with its canals and ponds, runs down toward the water, and the view across the gulf is wide and grey.
Read the complete P.K.Alexandrov's Datcha write-up.
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P.K.Alexandrov's Datcha comes up 25 km in. Next is 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.
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50 km in you reach The Maximov's Datcha. Next is Zelenogorsky.
The northern shore of the Gulf of Finland, west of Saint Petersburg, was for centuries the summer playground of the capital, and Zelenogorsk, which the Finns called Terijoki, was the best known of its resort towns.
Read the complete Zelenogorsky write-up.
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Zelenogorsky, about halfway. Next is back through The Maximov's Datcha.
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Read the complete The Maximov's Datcha write-up.
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back through The Maximov's Datcha sits at 99 km, about halfway. Next is back through P.K.Alexandrov's Datcha, 25 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete P.K.Alexandrov's Datcha write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through P.K.Alexandrov's Datcha comes up 124 km in. Next is Pulkovskaya Observatory.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Pulkovskaya Observatory write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Pulkovskaya Observatory closes the day.
Pulkovskaya Observatory → P.K.Alexandrov's Datcha is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
P.K.Alexandrov's Datcha → The Maximov's Datcha is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Maximov's Datcha → Zelenogorsky is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zelenogorsky → back through The Maximov's Datcha is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Maximov's Datcha → back through P.K.Alexandrov's Datcha is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through P.K.Alexandrov's Datcha → Pulkovskaya Observatory is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.