Why this ride
A 65 km round trip from Lomonosov - roughly 1 h 09 in the saddle. On the way it passes Oranienbaumsky Springboard, The English Park and back through Oranienbaumsky Springboard.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
The Maximov's Datcha and The English Park
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 65 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 09
- 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 18 km this is Saint Petersburg Imperial Shore, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 18 km
- Named road
- Saint Petersburg Imperial Shore
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. 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 is where the day begins. Next is Oranienbaumsky Springboard.
2. 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 comes up about 18 km into the recorded legs. Next is The English Park.
3. The English Park
Everybody who comes to Peterhof heads for the fountains, the Grand Cascade and the gilded Samson tearing open the lion's jaws, and almost nobody walks the few hundred metres west into the English Park. That is their loss. Catherine the Great, who found Peter the Great's straight avenues and clipped hedges old-fashioned, had this park laid out from 1779 by the English gardener James Meader, in the natural landscape style then sweeping Europe: a chain of ponds, meadows, clumps of oak and lime, and paths that wander rather than march. It belongs to the World Heritage Site covering the historic centre of Saint Petersburg and its ring of palaces and estates.
Read the complete The English Park write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 34 km into the recorded legs you reach The English Park. Next is back through Oranienbaumsky Springboard.
4. back through 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 through Oranienbaumsky Springboard, late in the day. Next is The Maximov's Datcha.
5. 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 at The Maximov's Datcha. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
The Maximov's Datcha to Oranienbaumsky Springboard
The Maximov's Datcha → Oranienbaumsky Springboard is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Oranienbaumsky Springboard to The English Park
Oranienbaumsky Springboard → The English Park is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The English Park to back through Oranienbaumsky Springboard
The English Park → back through Oranienbaumsky Springboard is 12 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Oranienbaumsky Springboard to The Maximov's Datcha
back through Oranienbaumsky Springboard → The Maximov's Datcha is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.