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 274 km round trip from Kronstadt - roughly 4 h 17 in the saddle. It goes by way of Terioki, The E.I.Lopukhina's, Koltushskoe Highway and back through The E.I.Lopukhina's. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 64 km this is Saint Petersburg Imperial Shore, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Kronstadt town has a face turned to the sea and a back turned to the mainland, and Southern Battery No. 1 stands on the southern shore of Kotlin Island, a few kilometres from the old harbour. It is one of the earth-and-brick gun batteries that formed part of the maritime fortress, built to protect the capital against any fleet that dared to enter the gulf. The island was fortified by Peter the Great, who founded the base here in the early eighteenth century, and it remained one of the great naval stations of the Russian empire.
Read the complete Southern battery No. 1 write-up.
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Southern battery No. 1 is where the day begins. Next is Terioki.
Terioki, or Terijoki in Finnish, is the old name of Zelenogorsk, a resort town on the northern shore of the Gulf of Finland, about fifty kilometres from St Petersburg. Until the Winter War, it was part of Finland, and before the revolution it was one of the favourite dacha destinations for the wealthy of the imperial capital, who came by train to spend summers among the pine trees and sandy beaches. After the Soviet Union took the Karelian Isthmus in 1940 and again in 1944, the Finnish population left, and in 1948 the town was renamed Zelenogorsk, the green hill.
Read the complete Terioki write-up.
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Terioki comes up about 64 km into the recorded legs. Next is The E.I.Lopukhina's, 39 km on.
North of Saint Petersburg's centre, the city thins out into a mix of suburbs, dachas, pine woods and the long marshy shores of the Karelian Isthmus.
Read the complete The E.I.Lopukhina's write-up.
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about 109 km into the recorded legs you reach The E.I.Lopukhina's. Next is Koltushskoe Highway.
East of Saint Petersburg, the Koltushskoe highway runs through suburban sprawl and countryside toward the village of Koltushi, and it belongs to a memorial landscape that ties the whole region together: the Green Belt of Glory, a chain of monuments marking the defensive line around Leningrad during the siege of 1941 to 1944, when nearly nine hundred days of blockade cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of civilians. Monuments, steles and memorials stand along the roads where the front lines and supply routes ran, including the Road of Life across Lake Ladoga.
Read the complete Koltushskoe Highway write-up.
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Koltushskoe Highway, about halfway. Next is back through The E.I.Lopukhina's, 38 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The E.I.Lopukhina's write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through The E.I.Lopukhina's sits at 153 km, about halfway. Next is back through Terioki.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Terioki write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Terioki comes up about 213 km into the recorded legs. Next is Southern battery No. 1, 38 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Southern battery No. 1 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Southern battery No. 1 closes the day.
Southern battery No. 1 → Terioki is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Terioki → The E.I.Lopukhina's is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The E.I.Lopukhina's → Koltushskoe Highway is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Koltushskoe Highway → back through The E.I.Lopukhina's is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The E.I.Lopukhina's → back through Terioki is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Terioki → Southern battery No. 1 is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.