Hello dear.
Moscow is an old city. And very difficult, from any point of view. Including in relation to various complex, unusual and, one might say, anomalous and mystical zones. And given the size of the Mother See, you can guess how many of these "complex territories" there are. Let's take a look at just a few of them today.
We will not touch on areas where there are many ghosts, such as the Igumnov House, Pashkov House or Myasnitskaya 17, we will not stop at Aktorkiny Ponds and the whole Ostankino in general, we will skip numerous objects associated with Yakov Bruce since they remember), we will not remember the damned paintings of the Tretyakov Gallery, or the terrible dungeons of Khitrovka, the grave of Fyodor Gaz and the Patriarch's Ponds.
Jacob Bruce
Let's talk about several zones, it is not possible to determine whether they are completely positive or not. I call such territories "places of power" and even I, a person who is definitely weakly sensitive to external influences and energy flows, and who is also skeptical of such things, feel somewhat different in them. Sometimes very well, and sometimes vice versa. Depending on the location. I will roughly indicate my feelings from these territories, and they may differ from yours :-)
So...
Votes ravine in Kolomna park.
It divides the museum-reserve into two equal parts. The steep-sided ravine at Kolomenskoye is over a kilometer long. To get down to it, you have to go through long wooden stairs. It is believed that Golosov (formerly Volosov, Velesov) ravine has the power of the pagan god Veles, who patronized material wealth. In the ravine itself, stretching from the Moskva River to Andropov Avenue, there are ancient (sacred) stones: Gus-stone and Devin stone. They allegedly served as altars to this deity. Some researchers are sure that the ravine is a preserved relief of the seabed.
In the local "voice ravine", according to legend, George the Victorious fought with a snake. Where the hero's horse dug into the ground with its hooves, the springs went, and the remains of the reptile were preserved in the form of huge magical boulders protruding from the ground. And they also say that time gaps happen here - supposedly people disappeared in these places and returned only decades later.
Basically, I think this place is right and good.
bypass channel in the very center of Moscow. It was laid from the Kremlin along the Moskva River in the 18th century, it was supposed to protect the city during floods and floods.
Never felt there any anxiety or inconvenience. Especially on Balchug? I always feel uncomfortable there and try to avoid it. 
The workers who built it told a legend about a sorcerer sacrificed by the Swedes - they say, the place is cursed, nothing can be built here. But the Bypass Canal with ten bridges nevertheless appeared. Since the end of the 19th century, suicides began to occur in one of its sections: the unfortunate people threw themselves into the water. In the 1920s, during underground construction work in the canal area, granite slabs with incomprehensible texts were discovered.
I don’t know about the lyrics, but the place is really strange and IMHO, dark
Museum-Reserve "Tsaritsyno"
About five hundred years ago, here, among centuries-old dense forests, there was a small village called “Black Mud”, which got its name from the nearby healing springs and mud. If you smear yourself with greasy dark slurry, and then swim in a spring gushing from the ground, many ailments will be removed as if by hand, the locals believed. Some time later, the spring was consecrated, and pilgrims flocked to it, including from the surrounding nobles and service people. 
Soon the rumor about the miraculous properties of water and mud reached Moscow, not passing by the Grand Duke's towers in the Kremlin. That is why Catherine the Great, losing her beauty and youth, chose this place to build her palace. For some reason, Tsaritsino is considered a dangerous place. A particularly strong area is under the main palace and under the bridges. But personally, I find the park peaceful and positive. For me, he is very, very good.
And here Lefortovo park I try to avoid 
It was modeled after the famous Versailles Park, which is why contemporaries also called it "Versailles on the Yauza". In 1722, Peter I purchased the estate with the intention of turning it into his Moscow residence and redoing the park in the Dutch manner. The following year, by his decree, Nicholas Bidloo begins to equip the park, decorating it with sculptures, dams, cascades and other decorations. At this time, a huge amount of excavation work is carried out in the park, the direction of the flow of streams changes, symmetrical paths appear.
In 1730, celebrations were held in the Lefortovo residence on the occasion of the coronation of Anna Ioannovna. The Empress proclaims Lefortovo her main Moscow residence and renames it in the German manner to "Annenhof". There is a legend that the "Annenhof Grove" appeared in the park overnight, when, at the whim of Anna Ioannovna, mature trees were brought and planted.
There's always been some crazy stuff going on in this park. Palaces burned constantly. In 1904, he was badly damaged by a tornado. Beliefs connect this with the grave of Franz Lefort himself, who is buried somewhere in the park. And although this is a legend that has no basis, the place is so ... peculiar. Doesn't work well for me personally.
A estate Kuskovo very, very good. This is the former estate of the Counts Sheremetevs, where the architectural and artistic ensemble of the 18th century has been preserved. It is located in the east of Moscow on the territory of the Veshnyaki district. 
Kuskovo was mentioned for the first time at the end of the 16th century and already as a possession of the Sheremetevs. In 1623-1624, a wooden church, a boyar court, and serfs' yards stood here. In the possession of the Sheremetevs, Kuskovo remained for more than three hundred years, until 1917.
Initially, in this area, the Sheremetevs owned only one small plot, a “piece”, as Count Boris Petrovich Sheremetev called it. At the same time, all other lands in the district belonged to the future State Chancellor Alexei Mikhailovich Cherkassky. After the marriage of the son of Boris Petrovich, Count Pyotr Borisovich, with the only daughter of Prince Alexei Mikhailovich, Varenka, the Sheremetevs became the sole owners of these lands.
In the 1750s-1770s, by order of Pyotr Sheremetev, an extensive estate was created in Kuskovo with a palace, many "entertainment undertakings", a large park and ponds. The creation of this ensemble is closely connected with the names of the fortress architects Fyodor Argunov and Alexei Mironov. The architectural complex was created in the Baroque-Rocaille style of the mid-18th century.
Good and beautiful place.
And finally, a rather strange place is the so-called Petrovskaya mountain in Tushino. Here in the fourteenth century. on the top of the Old Mountain (as it was called before) stood the Transfiguration Monastery. But now not even ruins remain of it.
According to legend, this place is cursed. Somehow, they say, merchants, who were afraid of thieves, knocked on the gates of the monastery and asked to let them in for the night. However, the monks refused.
They say the merchants stood at the gate for a long time, begging them to be let in. But the inhabitants of the monastery remained adamant. Finally, the merchants drove off. After some time, the monks became ashamed that they had treated good people in this way, and the abbot sent messengers after them. However, it was already too late. Not far from the monastery, robbers attacked the merchants. The next morning they were found by messengers from the monastery in a nearby grove "beaten and without goods."
The robbers killed everyone, only one of the merchants was still alive. When he saw the monks, he whispered in his hearts: “May your monastery fail!”
Since then, the Old Mountain began to subside. The Transfiguration Monastery of the Savior soon turned into ruins, and then no matter what they tried to build here, everything collapsed. Once there was also the residence of False Dmitry II, better known as the Tushinsky thief. And there were no traces left of her. 
False Dmitry II
Under Soviet rule, local residents tried to plant vegetable gardens here. But everything failed...
Today, a large hole can be seen on the top of the mountain, similar to a funnel from a meteorite. But no meteorite has ever flown by here. It's just a failing place. I don't know about the merchant's curse, but the place is really strange. Very, very much.
That's about it.
Do you know any similar places in Moscow?
Have a nice time of the day.
Today we will go for a walk to the north-west of the capital, where there is one historical landmark - the Bratsevo estate. The Bratsevo estate is located at the address: Svetlogorsky proezd, 13 (buses and minibuses run from the Skhodnenskaya and Planernaya metro stations) - a monument of architecture and gardening and park art.
We enter the estate from Salomei Neris Street. The territory of the estate was designed according to the canons of an English regular park. Its green alleys and shady paths, the layout itself are reminiscent of the English romanticism of the 19th century.
Stone bridge at the entrance to the estate
In fact, the park area around the estate is not landscaped in any way, everything here is "natural". Parents with strollers come here for a walk, and pensioners walk along the paths
Young artists paint the Bratsevo estate
The romantic history of the beginning of the 20th century is connected with the Bratsevo estate. Count A. Stroganov married Ekaterina Trubetskoy. It was his second marriage, and it ended in disaster - almost immediately after the birth of their joint child, the countess fell passionately in love with Adjutant General Rimsky-Korsakov, who was a retired favorite of Catherine II herself. He was an outstanding person, but the countess was also famous not only for her beauty, she was very smart and extraordinary, and the gallant adjutant general also became seriously interested in her. The novel flared up with such force that the countess decides, despite the condemnation of the world, to leave her husband and go to her beloved. In those years, this was a courageous act, but Count Stroganov also behaved very nobly. He did not take revenge on Catherine, let his wife go and even gave her the Bratsevo estate so that she could live there away from the world. There she lived with her common-law husband until her death.
The last owner of the Bratsevo estate was Shcherbatov N., who himself handed it over to the state after the revolution. The only thing he asked for was the status of a monument of culture and history for the estate, so that a unique place could be preserved for posterity.
The architect of the estate in many publications is called A. N. Voronikhin, who worked mainly on orders from the Stroganovs. In support of his authorship, they indicate that the main round hall of the house, with columns and a small staircase to the choir stalls, resembles the Mineral Cabinet of the Stroganov Palace in St. Petersburg, built with the participation of Voronikhin. The two-story main house has survived to this day (cross-shaped, with a portico and crowned with a domed belvedere)
The main house of the estate Bratsevo
The estate is located on the top of a picturesque hill, gently descending to the valley of the river Skhodnya.
At the bottom of the hill, locals like to relax in nature (cook barbecue, play volleyball, badminton, just sunbathe)
Mitinsky skyscrapers are visible from the hill
Shady alleys of Bratsevo Park
Front entrance of the main house of the Bratsevo estate
In Bratsevo, the shooting of the famous television series "Poor Nastya", the films "Say a Word About the Poor Hussar" and "The Young Lady-Peasant Woman" took place.
Fountain square with benches near the main house of the estate, although the fountain does not work
Alley leading to the main house of the estate
A two-storey wooden summer house with speakers, which served as a guest house, has survived to this day.
The most notable building of the manor's household yard is a water tower built on an artesian well in 1898.
Former stables and carriage-repair sheds, now there is a banquet hall where festive celebrations and weddings are celebrated
This is what the Moscow estate Bratsevo looks like next to the Moscow Ring Road. To be honest, it makes no sense to come here from the other end of the city ...
Near the estate, across the road, there is a unique natural monument - the so-called "Skhodnensky bucket"
The Skhodnenskaya (Tushino) bowl (ladle) is a natural monument, part of the Tushinsky Natural Park in Moscow.
Going down into the bowl is quite problematic, as the slopes are very steep, but you can walk a little and find a path for descent
The diameter of the "Bowl" along the edge of the slopes is up to 1 km, the depth is about 40 m, the area is about 75 hectares
The appearance of the bowl can be easily explained - it was washed by the river Skhodnya, which gave it its name
Skhodnensky bucket is an abandoned place overgrown with trees and bushes, where you can occasionally find paths and people on them
Bridge over the Skhodnya river
Factory Drive passes over the bridge
Behind the bridge is the Tushino Evangelical Church
Another bridge over the Skhodnya River (connects Pokhodny passage and Vasily Petushkov St.)
A place where fishermen like to gather
This is how the walk around the Bratsevo estate and the Skhodnensky bucket turned out
Pietro1988, December 23, 2016 (Edition: December 10, 2019)
Dear members of the Hamster!
Each of you knows about a very interesting and unique corner of nature in Tushino, and maybe even in Moscow - the Skhodnensky bucket. Some call it the Skhodnenskaya (Tushino) bowl or the Skhodnenskaya floodplain. This natural object received such a name in connection with its relief form, which is directly opposite to the mountain one, namely, depressions, i.e. depressions towards the center and elevations along the edges. Moreover, the Bucket is quite deep - it goes down almost 40 meters. Many interesting facts about him are described in the corresponding topic. I learned some of them from personal observations, others here on Khomyak, and some more from my grandmother's stories or from old photographs at Oldmos. Since 1991 Kovsh has been a specially protected natural area, and since 1998 it has been a natural monument and part of the Tushinsky natural and historical park.
The bucket is located in the South Tushino region, extending from north to south from the site of the former village of Petrovo to the former Knitting Factory, and from west to east - from Svetlogorsky passage to Donelaitis passage. In the southern part of the Kovsh there is the bed of the Skhodnya River, which makes a sharp turn there, on the map - as if in the shape of a horseshoe or a bagel.
According to Wikipedia, "the bowl was formed in the post-glacial period, when the more full-flowing Skhodnya flowed at the current upper edge of the cliff. Over time, the riverbed deepened, retreating southward under the pressure of bedrock, until the somewhat shallow river was at the bottom of the gulley."
In this article, I would like to talk about how the Bucket looks like in winter. Like any other time of the year, it is beautiful and you can admire it endlessly. I don't know of such another unusual place. So I decided to take a walk recently, on December 18, along the slopes of the Skhodnensky bucket and admire its beauty and wide expanses. My route ran from the observation deck at Svetlogorsky passage to the former Tushino knitting factory.
Thus, I went from the place where the routes along the Kovsh usually begin, approximately opposite the school 821 and the former First Workers' Town, near the house 47 on Jan Rainis Boulevard. From this point, beautiful views of the Kovsh open up and it is often photographed from there. Once upon a time, in the 1980s, near that place there was a ski lift, according to eyewitnesses, related to the Omega ski club, there was a corresponding sign. The lift was collapsible and stood all winter. I can’t say for sure whether beginners trained there or only professionals skated. Rather, the second, since the slope in the northwestern part is quite steep. The remains of the booth have not been preserved, since this place turned out to be under the asphalt during the expansion of Svetlogorsky passage.
In addition, from that place in the 1970-80s. hang gliders started, again professionals who could catch the direction of the wind and, without a takeoff run, flew up with the help of a dynamic flow.
Now I present to you the beautiful and breathtaking winter views of the snowy Bucket from the observation deck:
As you can see, in recent decades, the Bucket has been gradually overgrown with trees, primarily American maple. But this does not diminish its natural beauty, its saturation with vegetation also has its own unique look. Previously, Kovsh was more "bald", almost without trees and shrubs, and in the 1990s. in times of crisis, vegetable gardens were often planted on the slopes of the Kovsh - they planted potatoes and other vegetables. The most persistent kept vegetable gardens until the early 2000s.
What beautiful views open up to our native Skhodnensky bucket from the northwestern slope!
In the background of the photograph, residential areas along the Donelaitis passage on the opposite slope are visible, on the right - house 14 Donelaitisa street near the Knitting Factory. In the center you can see the pipes of the district heating station "Tushino-4" along Fabricius, even further - high-rise buildings along Lodochnaya. If you look to the right, you can see the skyscrapers on Shchukinskaya and behind them - the Triumph Palace. In good clear weather, you can also see Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov.
I also photographed the northern slope of the Bucket. It is also steep, but not to the same extent as the northwestern one. It still needs to be passed. In the background, you can see the quarters along Jan Rainis (3rd microdistrict of the Skhodnenskaya floodplain, the former village of Petrovo) and along Donelaitis:
Then I went towards the former village of Petrovo and approximately along Jan Rainis boulevard. A splendid panorama of this natural monument stretched out before me, the western slope of the Kovsh appeared on the right in the photo. It is the steepest, almost steep, and at the same time the most overgrown. Even earlier, in the 1980s - 90s, there was always vegetation on it, unlike other slopes in the 1980s. To the right of it passes Svetlogorsky passage - a highway, so you won’t take a walk there and practically won’t see the Bucket because of the abundant vegetation.
The view in the background of the photo appears to have changed as well. Now house 14 on Donelaitis is in the center, and to the right of it you can see the yellow (new) and red (old) building of the hostels of the Knitting Factory, to the right of them the yellow building behind the trees is the factory itself. In the very right part of the photo you can see the tall tax building in Tushino, a little to the left - the Olympia residential complex in Strogino, even more to the left and completely in the background - the Continental residential complex skyscraper in Khoroshevo-Mnevniki. If I'm not mistaken, in the center in the very background you can see the radio and television mast of the Oktyabrsky Radio Center (OKTOD). Here, it turns out, how many interesting things can be seen from the Bucket, in addition to the Bucket itself! A real observation deck, as if "Tushino Vorobyovy Gory"!
And I went further and continued to photograph, and now we see a perspective similar to the first photo, only the houses have become a little closer. The tree in the foreground (I think it's ash) adds sophistication to the photo. In the Kovsh itself, we see places that are not yet so overgrown and remind us of the 80s, and our native Russian birches:
Now - a view of the Knitting Factory and the tax office, and in the foreground there are also trees. In the right part of the photo, behind a tree, residential quarters of the 3rd microdistrict of the Skhodnenskaya floodplain, built in the early 1990s, appear:
And now we can see not only the 3rd microdistrict, but also the 4th microdistrict of the Skhodnenskaya floodplain with new skyscrapers, i.e. the former First Workers' Town, more than half of whose houses were demolished in the late 1990s. It is also clearly seen here that the western part of the Kovsh is the most overgrown, and on the right side of the photo a more “bald” slope is drawn, possibly left over from the ski slope near the former Omega ski lift:
After that, if we look at the map, we find ourselves in a small "bay" of the Bucket, namely, in the place where we used to often like to ride on a sled, especially longitudinal ones. In the 1970s - early 1980s, when there was still the village of Petrovo, the hill on this slope, on which the lugers gathered, was popularly called "Petrovka". In other words, this is the northern slope of the Bucket. It was he who was the most popular, and not only among lugers, but also among hang gliders. There were so many people on it that it was easy to bump into each other. The last one on this slope was also the most convenient, since it is not very steep and it was possible to take a run on it, so that later it could fly up, catching a southerly wind. Oldmos has many old photographs of lugers and hang gliders congregating on the northern slope. A little to the west of the northern slope, approximately in the area of \u200b\u200bhouse 43 on Jan Rainis, there was another ski lift - Hydroproject, but much less information about it has been preserved. Unlike "Omega", he worked mainly only on weekends, and the cable was pulled to him every time, and each time they were removed, they carried a yoke with them. The lift worked from 1978 to about 1983, until the demolition of the village of Petrovo.
This slope has not been overgrown with vegetation even now, at least part of it is closer to the edge of the Bucket, and the kids still ride there, now not only on sleds, but also on ice rinks, snow scooters and tubing. Despite the fact that in the center there is a sign "Skating is prohibited." Everyone follows traditions. And I remember that I rode small hills when I was little, but I was afraid to go further into the depths - so as not to fall. And then, in the 90s, the Bucket was not yet so overgrown. It can be seen that the slope is now "empty", only a lone tree stands in the middle:
In the place where the children now ride, at the peak of the popularity of "Petrovka", lugers had an ice slide, in the people of "Bobslake", quite dangerous. People who had already gained a fair amount of experience in sledding from the Petrovka were moving down this hill and flying at full speed down into a liquid, viscous dirty swamp in the depths of the Bucket, and already in front of it, in order not to get into it, they tried to slow down. Now you can see that the children are rolling down to the place on the northern slope where the first vegetation begins:
It can be seen that the former "Petrovka" is still popular among the people, although not as much as before:
If you turn in the direction of the Bucket itself, you can see that a little to the right after the "bald spot" the Bucket breaks off, and there is already vegetation below. The same perspective is visible in the background - Knitwear and the 3rd microdistrict of the Skhodnenskaya floodplain:
And we move on along the former village of Petrovo. And now we pass on the edge of the northeastern slope, steeper and overgrown with vegetation than the northern one. Earlier, in the 1970s and 80s, some trees also grew on it, in contrast to the northern slope. And, besides, this slope was not knurled, there were very rare cases when someone skated from it. There were also accidents. At the same time, this slope is not as overgrown as the western one, and from it you can still see the prospect of the Skhodnensky bucket. Unlike the western slope, trees grow only in the depths, and there are no trees on the surface:
Now the tax office is in the background in the center, on the left is the Knitting Factory and the southern part of Donelaitis, and on the right is the 3rd microdistrict of the Skhodnenskaya floodplain.
We turn back a little and now we see the same northern slope, popular with lugers. Obviously, this place immediately stands out among the Skhodnensky bucket with a pronounced slide for skiing:
We go further and slowly approach the residential quarters of the Donelaitis passage, i.e. to the eastern part of the Bucket. It is arranged differently, unlike the northern one: there the slope is even less steep, but there is a lot of vegetation. The bucket there has a not too high mountain, while it is very elongated in horizontal relief. There are a lot of trees in the foreground, and in the background on the right now there is a house 47 on Rainis, where we started our walk:
But we go even further, we go out onto the sidewalk at the very roadway of Donelaitis, and the houses are all moving away from us. It can be seen that in this place the Bucket no longer descends so much, so it can not be seen so well, but the views are still very beautiful. Somewhere "lost" strongly leaning tree. Once upon a time there was an old dump of rusty things and a useless trolleybus was lying there, later lowered from the slope to the Skhodnya River. The slope, however, is even more gentle here:
Now we come to the south-eastern part of the Bucket, to the area of house 14 on Donelaitis. The slope is almost gone, the relief is almost flat, but in the background there is now a good view of the quarters along Jan Rainis at the site of the former village of Petrovo and the northern slope. It can be seen here that in the central part of the Kovsh there is especially a lot of vegetation:
It can be seen that the first houses are already far away, but it seemed to me that when I shot from the northern slope, house 14 seemed to be even further away. An interesting sensation, an optical illusion...
And now we have almost come to the Knitting Factory. We go down from the Donelaitis passage along a small path down to the passage between the hostel and the factory itself, then we get to the pedestrian bridge over the Skhodnya River. It always seemed to me that this place has some kind of its own atmosphere, as if Soviet, and that you feel there not at all in Moscow, but as if in a small town near Moscow or even far away in the provinces. Now, unfortunately, the factory is no longer working (already since 2004), the premises in it are leased for offices. But walking there is still nice, as if you remember your childhood. We can see the pipeline across the Skhodnya, sometimes used as a footbridge. However, there used to be a footbridge there. And even further - the dam across the Skhodnya. On the left - the yellow building of the former factory, which was built before the revolution, in 1905:
Now let's turn in the opposite direction and see on the right the old brick building of the hostel of the Knitting Factory, which has recently been overhauled with the replacement of floors. Behind it is a small yellow building, a new hostel building:
And now we come to the dam itself. It is interesting to watch and listen to how the water in the dam rustles down in the river Skhodnya:
Finally, a close-up of the factory building:
And at the end of our walk we get to the stadium "Trud", previously owned by the Tushino knitting factory. Now it is used as a field for training and rugby games. Previously, not only sports competitions between workshops, but also cultural events were often held there. In fact, this stadium is closely adjacent to the Skhodnensky bucket. In the background, we can again see the 2nd microdistrict of the Skhodnenskaya floodplain on the site of the former village of Petrovo. I apologize for the quality of the photos, because at that time it was already getting dark:
See you at Tushinsky Khomyak! See you!
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Only own photographs were used - date of shooting 15.06.2013
Address: Moscow, Svetlogorsky pr., Skhodnenskaya metro station.
How to get there: from Skhodnenskaya metro station 1.7 km, Avt. 43,212,267, march. "Jan Rainis Boulevard, 20"
Near the estate of Bratsevo and the now demolished village of Petrovo, in the bend of Skhodnya, there is a natural monument, the so-called "Skhodnensky bucket" (otherwise "Skhodnensky bowl") - a giant depression of unclear origin, 40 m deep. The bowl has an ideal round shape, and is itself filled with marshy soils.
The Skhodnya valley immediately south of Bratsevo has been quite densely populated since ancient times, as evidenced by the Finno-Ugric settlements of the early Iron Age (Dyakovo culture, turn of the AD): Tushino at the Skhodnenskaya bowl and two Spas-Tushinsky behind the Spas.
The Skhodnenskaya (Tushino) bowl (ladle) is a natural monument, part of the Tushinsky Natural Park in Moscow. The bowl is an amphitheater with landslide relief around the swampy floodplain of the Skhodnya River.
On three sides, the "Bowl" is bounded by high steep banks, in the southern part there is a loop of the channel of the Skhodnya River. The diameter of the "Bowl" along the edge of the slopes is up to 1 km, the depth is about 40 m, the area is about 75 hectares.
The bowl was formed in the post-glacial period, when the more full-flowing river Skhodnya flowed at the current upper edge of the cliff. Over time, the riverbed deepened, retreating southward under the pressure of bedrock, until the somewhat shallowed river was at the bottom of the gully.
In the floodplain, a vast sedge-cattail bog has been preserved. At the end of the XX century. on the territory of the bowl it was possible to meet the following species of animals listed in the Red Book of Moscow: moored frog, common newt, viviparous lizard, common snake, weasel, hare; birds - snipe, moorhen, meadow pipit. In 2004, hares and weasels could no longer be found.
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The Tushinskaya bowl, better known as the Skhodnensky bucket, is one of the parts of the specially protected natural area of regional significance in the city of Moscow of the Tushinsky Natural and Historical Park.
In fact, when I lived in this area, it never occurred to anyone to call a ladle a bowl, and even more so, no one ever thought that he and other regional "greens" have the status of a Natural and Historical Park.
We just knew that this huge wooded pit, along the bottom of which the Skhodnya River flows, is a natural monument, and we were always amazed at its size: I can’t say for sure, but they really amaze the imagination. Thanks to this, the Skhodnensky bucket has become one of those places where you can feel yourself far from the city without leaving it.
It is surrounded by residential buildings from all sides: although the area is outlying, it has been developed for a long time, and this is even surprising - given the pace and customs of our modern life, it is strange that it has not yet yielded to developers and has retained its almost wild appearance.
It is noteworthy that although the slopes are not very steep, it is quite difficult to go down them. You still need to find the path, and after that - try not to lose it in the thickets of grass :) I climbed down several times, but today I still fell several times, because the shales turned out to be far from the best shoes for such a walk - sneakers or any other shoes would be much more suitable , which is not a pity.
By the way, regarding the emergence of the ladle in the form in which we can observe it now (a huge pit), there is a very interesting legend that I once heard from friends. The legend says that there used to be a hill at this place, on top of which there was a temple. There was a road past the temple, and once, late in the evening, merchants were walking along it, who asked to go to the temple for the night, but they were not allowed to go.
The merchants had to go further, but at night robbers attacked them and killed everyone except one, who miraculously managed to escape. You, of course, have already guessed what the merchant wished the temple? That's right, fail.
The place is considered "bad" - in Soviet times, they tried many times to adapt it to any needs, but the attempts were unsuccessful. And they handed out plots, and they wanted to flood them - but in the end there are neither summer cottages nor a reservoir there.
There is an opinion that one of the "coolest" geopathogenic zones of Moscow is located here.
However, you can't say anything about the local flora :) The landscapes are quite typical for the "countryside" (but do not forget that we are not in it!) - there are, for example, meadows and clearings.
In one of the glades, I finally stumbled upon a more or less civilized path, along which I went further.
In addition to the "usual" trees and grass, sea buckthorn grows in the bucket, which has already become a curiosity for the residents of the city. If you were sure that sea buckthorn is such an intricate sexual position - welcome! 
Yes, and all sorts of wild flowers, which you just won’t see in the city, there’s plenty here.
But the most interesting thing here is the atmosphere. Sometimes you really forget that you are in the city - only the noise of Moscow roads and other city sounds reminds of this.
Not only people, but also animals agree with this opinion - there is evidence that hares, squirrels, foxes and weasels live in the bucket, as well as large (hawks, falcons and woodpeckers) and small birds, including those from the Red Book. On the information plate at one of the slopes it is written that this is the only place in Moscow where nests of snipes and meadow pipits have been seen recently.
The path I found soon led me to the Skhodna River. Its shores are a favorite place for vacationers and local fishermen, so almost all "civilized" paths come to it sooner or later.
It is not surprising that the area along the river looks much more "inhabited" than other areas of the bucket.