10/11/2019 Evgenia Svishcheva
We took a Standard room for two. Quite clean, there is a refrigerator, a hairdryer. The shower was directly on the floor, water flooded the entire bathroom. Towels were changed every day. Breakfast is buffet, you can eat enough, but the choice is small, not everything is tasty. The receptionist was unfriendly and reluctant to answer questions.
10/09/2019 Joulia F
Very dirty. Old furniture, old plumbing. An antediluvian TV that shows 2.5 channels, and those with interference, despite the fact that the Ostankino TV tower is visible from the hotel windows. Lack of opportunity to have dinner in the evening. The CPSU cafe is a hymn to the Soviet Union. The unsanitary conditions are terrible. We need to close it and not embarrass ourselves.
10/01/2019 Kuznetsov Andrey
I cannot objectively evaluate the quality of services and rooms due to the fact that I did not stay in this hotel. A friend arrived from Yakutia and he checked into this hotel. I got to her by public transport about half an hour from metro station Alekseevskaya, the best option there was a bus, 150 m from bus stop Hotel Baikal, option further from the metro. It was evening and I didn’t immediately find the buildings; I had to ask around. I photographed the layout of the buildings, maybe it will be useful to someone. I specifically went to the booking office to check out the offers in the VDNKh area. Based on prices and photos of rooms, booking gave me, in my opinion, more optimal options, but once again I note that the opinion is subjective. Part of me, when I was a “guest of the capital”, preferred other hotels in this area.
I note that all hotels have rooms that meet your needs, the only question is the price.
At the reception the administrator was polite to me and allowed me to wait for the guest in the hall on the sofa. My friend liked the hotel, I didn’t hear anything negative from him.
To summarize, you need to get to the hotel by transport, the hotel courtyard is difficult to find the first time, the area is not well lit. The reception staff is polite.
The rest is your choice??
09.26.2019 Elena Filatova
It’s convenient for me that it’s close to VDNKh
The room is cozy and small, but there is no hairdryer? Maybe I got this, maybe there is something better.
07/24/2019 Alexey Pushkin
A 3-bed room was booked. On Saturday we arrived at the hotel, a little earlier than check-in time, around 13:10, we stood in line, there was one reception desk with ONE employee for 6 buildings. The girl said that there were no rooms available yet and told me to come exactly at 14:00. They arrived at 2:30 p.m., stood in an even longer queue, spent a long time calling different people to find out something, it turned out there were no clean numbers, and the time was already 2:30 p.m., but it was a logical question, she calmly answered, as if this was a common thing for them, that there were few employees, not have time. I sent to building 6 for the keys, but they didn’t give us the keys because... The room will still be cleaned for 30 minutes, i.e. We could arrive at 15:00 at best. There was no time to wait, they offered to leave things in the storage room, and we had to change clothes there. Naturally, the food spoiled during the day without refrigeration, and of course there was no way to wash after the road. We arrived in the evening, at about 11 p.m., building 6 was closed, they wouldn’t open it when the bell rang, they let the guests in, neither the administrator nor the security guard, went back at 5, the administrator spent a long time proving that everything was in place. In the end, she gave the keys and went to open the storage room. When I arrived at building 6, I really didn’t find any employees. Then the administrator of the 6th building finally appeared, but he could not explain where he had been. This all took another 30 minutes, instead of resting at a later time. No one even thought to apologize somehow, all communication was indifferent. Having collected our things and received the keys, we went up to the 3rd floor, and there waiting for us was the parquet floor, which apparently had not changed since the time of construction, dried out, creaky, dangling boards, which were covered with a dirty, threadbare carpet, and all this was accompanied by the ancient smell of the 70s. Entering the room, what a surprise it was when there was no chandelier in one of the rooms(!). Only two nightlights on the bedside tables. How is this normal? Okay, let's say. The room is dirty, the cleaning was formal, the tables and window sills were wiped down, it seemed clean. And no one knows that dust collects on other surfaces, apparently there was a candy wrapper lying under the bed. To the san. there’s someone’s hair in the bathtub drain, the tiles are falling off, the shower has apparently been replaced, they bought the cheapest one, but the fact that when you insert it into the mount, instead of pouring from top to bottom, it pours horizontally to the opposite wall is of no interest to anyone, like that will do. Water is drawn into the barrel of the toilet with the sound of a passing diesel locomotive. Tapak, there are no dental supplies. They gave us 5 towels for three people. It is not clear how they should have been divided. The mattress was sagging, you could feel the springs, you had to lay out a blanket and cover yourself with a blanket. Breakfast in their “restaurant” is a separate issue. There are a lot of people, there are no dishes, seats not enough, tables are dirty. Several times I asked the staff to bring the dishes and clear the tables, but they answered in a raised tone that they couldn’t keep up.
07/09/2019 Ruslan Pashkov
Number of meeting rooms 6, cafe, date of construction 1955, solarium, parking, massage, restaurant, sauna, luggage storage, transfer, non-smoking rooms, beauty salon, Internet, refrigerator, number of bars 1, number of restaurants 1, rooms 478, soundproofed rooms , 24-hour reception, lobby/public area, hairdryer, Wi-Fi, ATM, TV in the room, business center, reconstruction date 2014, iron, cleaning, bar, conference room, heating, room price from 2500 ₽/night, hairdresser, meeting room, shared toilet, children's menu, smoking rooms, payment by card, dry cleaning, pharmacy, laundry, safe, garden, elevator, snack machines, banquet hall. Business center equipment: computer, scanning, printer, photocopying. Number of stars: 3 stars. Hotel type: business hotel. Check-in time: 14:00. Check-out time: 12:00. Internet access: in rooms. Parking type: paid. Transfer: to/from the airport. Meals: according to the menu, full board, half board, breakfast only (buffet), no meals. Safe type: in the room, at the reception desk. Rent: bicycles.
This may seem surprising to some, but alpine skiing in our country they practiced not only in the mountains, but also in the hills near Moscow. Future winners of all-Union competitions began their training in Moscow at Sparrow Hills and on the slopes near Moscow.
Perhaps the real ski Mecca in the Moscow region was the vicinity of the Turist station on the Savelovskaya railway. Located in the north of the Moscow region at the foot of the Klinsko-Dmitrovskaya ridge, this area was truly ideal for skiing.
Nowadays, few fans winter holidays I haven’t heard about Leonid Tyagachev’s ski club, or about the sports and entertainment parks Volen, Yakhroma, Sorochany. However, the mass passion for alpine skiing began long before the appearance of these modern complexes equipped with last word technology.
« Ski club Leonid Tyagachev opened in February 2001, and people started skiing on these hills much earlier. Already in the 70s of the last century, the first lifts were installed here. These were handicrafts, most often made in a single copy. And almost each of them was a very original technical solution.
“The best ski area in the Moscow region...”
Train station It was opened here much earlier - in 1901, and they called it Blachernae - after the name of the nearby monastery. In 1934, the Society of Proletarian Tourism and Excursions, or simply OPTE, opened the first tourist base in Vlaherna. Routes around the base and access to it were described in a reference book published in 1935: “Vlakhernsky junction of the Savelovskaya line of the Northern railway. One hour 45 minutes drive from Savyolovsky station. The base is located on the picturesque bank of the Yakhroma River. The Vlahernskaya area is the best ski area in the Moscow region.” By that time, the construction of the Moscow-Volga canal, which was mainly created by the labor of prisoners, had been completed. The barns, stables and school building - the former estate of the Luzhin nobles - which previously housed Dmitlag prisoners, were given over to the base.
Flipping through files of old newspapers, I came across an article that attracted attention with the headline - “Mountaineering near Moscow.” On the age-yellowed page of the Pravda newspaper, dated January 6, 1935, we read: “The favorite place for forays of Moscow climbers is the Vlakhernskaya station of the Savelovskaya railway. ...Hills overgrown with spruce, pine and birch, numerous slopes into deep ravines make this most beautiful place center of skiing for Muscovites."
In 1936, the station received its current name “Tourist”. A year later, the House of Young Tourists (YUT) opened at the base and schoolchildren began to come here to acquire the necessary tourism skills. But after the collapse of the Soviet Union, they were no longer given the “USSR Tourist” badge. The base is located at the turn to the village of Mukhanki. Currently, due to a change of ownership, the base is closed, but I would like to hope that it will continue to operate.
And here is a photo from my friend’s home archive. It was made in the winter of 1941, six months before the attack of Nazi Germany on the Soviet Union. In it, a skier, dressed in the fashion of the time and in appropriate equipment, on wooden skis and with bamboo poles in his hands, is captured in a dashing turn. Why don't you like freeride? This photo was taken on the slope of the Paramonovsky ravine, located 5 kilometers from “Tourist” near the village of Paramonovo. And this was long before the appearance of the first ski lifts, with which the local slopes were equipped only in 1973, and that’s another story.
Yuri Borisovich Trista, an experienced alpine skier, chairman of the Moscow amateur league, participant and organizer of various competitions, also skied in these places. He told me how, as a boy, he and his mother made their first ski trip from Tourist station. And this was in 1949, and Yuri was only six years old. A steam locomotive with several trailer cars then ran from Moscow to the Tourist. From the station they walked first to the village of Mukhanki, and then through Strekovo to the village of Paramonovo, where they rode along the steep slopes of the Paramonovsky ravine. Then, also on skis, we returned to the station. The length of this route, not counting the slides, was quite serious for a six-year-old boy - more than 10 km.
The village of Shukolovo, where the Tyagachev Ski Club is now located, is closest to the “Tourist”. In the 50s, Vadim Gippenreiter, the first USSR champion in alpine skiing and a wonderful photographer, skied on the Shukolov slopes. Of course, there were no lifts here then, and you had to go up on foot. In the 60s, local skiers began to explore these slopes, and soon the Sports School of the Trud Society was built here.
"We're getting on the train..."
The real heyday of the popularity of alpine skiing among the “ordinary” people was the stagnant 70s. The bulk of this “people” were the intelligentsia and students. There was even a song composed with the following words: “Intellectual, get on your skis, sew your anorak and move up the mountain!”
It is possible that it was the years of stagnation that contributed to the rapid growth in the popularity of alpine skiing. After all, speed, whirlwinds of snow, a state close to the feeling of flight, brought a lot of emotions, allowing you to forget about the dull grayness of everyday life.
Equipment was then obtained with great difficulty, but at a price it was affordable even for students. True, everything required some improvement. The boots were also leather, laced, soft and not very suitable for a rigid connection with skis. To increase rigidity, the boots were first heated in the oven and then covered with molten paraffin. After that, they were put on their feet, and the lucky owner patiently waited for the paraffin to harden. Having cooled down, the boots became hard as stone, but another problem arose: how to get out of them...
A little later, Czech “Botas” with clips appeared. They were already much tougher. And even too much, and for many they are also too narrow. Even when compared with the “Spanish boot,” the medieval inquisitors quietly “smoked” on the sidelines. And then the seventies began...
In the mid-seventies, the third car of the train became a special center of attraction for the ski-tourist fraternity. Yuri Vizbor usually rode in it. On Saturday - there, on Sunday - back. His place was always in the third row, and no one else occupied it. Those who managed to find themselves in this carriage were considered lucky - after all, there was not enough space for everyone. The train started moving, Vizbor picked up the guitar and began to sing. And he sang until “Tourist”. There, not far from the station, in the village of Novlyanka, he rented a hut. I took pictures, like many who came here to ski. In 1976, he even composed a song called “The Village of Novlyanka.” There are these words:
Let's get the horse here!
Bottles here, bagels!
Take me, friends
To my village - Novlyanka!
Upon reaching the station, the skiers were divided into three unequal groups. The most numerous were heading towards the village of Shukolovo, the other - towards the village of Mukhanki. And finally, the third was loaded onto a local bus heading to the village of Paramonovo. Even then there was a toboggan run more than a kilometer long, where all-Union competitions were held.
At that time, there were few sports centers where you could stay overnight so that you could go out on the hill again the next day. There were several of them in Shukolovo - Trud, Krylya Sovetov, Zenit, and in Paramonovo - Lokomotiv. Many people rented from local residents rooms in village huts, they left their skis there so as not to carry them with them every time.
The first ski lifts in Shukolovo began to appear in the early 70s. In addition to stationary lifts with an electric motor, mobile ones with a two-stroke gasoline motorcycle engine were also used. At that time, a club system was developed, when each lift belonged to a specific club created at some large enterprise. Most often, such clubs were created at defense industry enterprises or research institutes. The clubs were provided assistance by the enterprises themselves. We built bases, purchased skis, and manufactured lifts at the production base. Kurchatov Institute, Red Star, Academy of Sciences. And it turned out that the lifts were used by privileged members of the clubs, and “uninitiated members” skiers climbed along the descent route using “ladders”. Which was, in general, a good physical workout. And during the climb it was possible to look at others and at the same time discuss technique.
On ski resort“Wings of the Soviets,” which no longer exists, was always noisy and fun. Not only training and competitions were held there, but also many other interesting events and all sorts of practical jokes... At that time, its director was a wonderful coach, Alexander Schroeders. He was a very lively and very cheerful person. And then one day “Papa Schultz,” as everyone jokingly called him, decided to breed carp in a local pond. As many as twelve selected specimens were released into a reservoir near the base. But then friends arrived and a dispute arose: who would catch the most of these fish. The bet is a box of cognac. Needless to say, there are no carp left in the pond...
"Russian miracle" from Shukolovo
If we talk about big-time sports, then we definitely need to talk about the Olympic Reserve School (SDYUSHOR), where one of the main ideologists was the coach of the USSR national team, Yuri Sergeevich Preobrazhensky. Among his first students were Viktor Belyakov (a participant in the 1968 Olympics) and Leonid Tyagachev, who studied at a sports school from the age of seven. Subsequently, Tyagachev would become the winner of the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR, a member of the USSR national team, and then its head coach. It was here that the most famous and titled skier of the USSR, Alexander Zhirov, made his first descents. His performances on the World Cup slopes glorified the Shukolov slopes throughout the world.
Leonid Tyagachev was born in the village of Dedenevo, next to “Tourist”. The most successful domestic skier, Alexander Zhirov, also comes from there. Alexander began skiing at the age of seven on the Shukolov slopes. His first coach was Valentin Mikhailovich Shirokov, then at the age of 15, Alexander moved to CSKA, where he trained with Viktor Talyanov. And in the USSR national team I was preparing for competitions with the participation of Leonid Tyagachev.
In 1981, under the leadership of Tyagachev, the USSR men's alpine skiing team achieved the greatest success in its history, winning five World Cup events within a month. Valery Tsyganov was the first to literally snatch victory in the downhill, and then Alexander Zhirov won four times in a row. In Borovets, Bulgaria, Zhirov was more than a second ahead of the legendary Stenmark. Subsequently, the Swedish alpine skier, who has 86 victories at the World Cup, will say the following words: “Zhirov was a wonderful alpine skier. I guess...he was a genius."
But before this, our skiers had never won a World Cup. This period was called “24 days of the Russian miracle”, and the then composition of the national team was called “golden”. In the same year, Leonid Tyagachev was recognized internationally as the best ski coach in the world.
For his phenomenal successes, Tyagachev is awarded a Citroen car, and Alexander Zhirov receives a Volvo 244 from the ski sponsor Rossignol.
Unfortunately, Zhirov’s sports career began to decline after this tremendous success. In the 1982/83 season he did not participate in the World Cup races, and in May 1983 he died in a car accident near his native village. By a tragic coincidence, he crashed in the same Volvo that he received for his victories at the World Cup. Alexander was buried in the Shukolovsky cemetery next to the slopes where his ascent to ski Olympus began.
The current train schedule Tourist - Moscow includes 49 trains ( commuter trains, diesel engines) that connect these stations, among which there are morning, afternoon, and evening stations. We recommend the fastest train (suburban train), which departs at 17:57 from Turist station and arrives at Moscow station at 18:57. If you need to spend the longest possible time on the way, you should choose train number 6253 in the schedule with the message Dmitrov - Kubinka 1, in this case the trip will take 1 hour 34 m. Between the stations Turist and Moscow, this electric train passes 17 stops. Among them are Morozki (14.29), Lobnya (15.10), Degunino (15.35), on which it is possible to change trains to other directions. On this page you can always find out the schedule of electric trains Tourist - Moscow, including the seasonal one, valid in summer and winter. Before planning a trip on the Tourist Moscow route, first read the schedule on our website, and also check this schedule at the nearest station, as some operational changes are possible.
Tickets for the Tourist - Moscow train can be purchased at the ticket office of the nearest station.
