Palace of Young Pioneers - part of Sparrow Hills Education Centre (Moscow)
Russia /
Moscow /
Moscow /
ulitsa Kosygina, 17
World
/ Russia
/ Moscow
/ Moscow
, 8 km from center (Москва)
World / Russia / Moscow City / Western
community centre / hall, 1962_construction, дом творчества юных/центр раннего развития детей (ru), Modern (architecture), revealed object of cultural heritage (Russia)
This more than 50-hectare site is the Moscow State Palace of Child (Youth) Creativity. Originally called the Palace of Young Pioneers, a community center for young people was founded on this site in 1936 though these particular buildings did not open until June 1962.
By the late 1950s, new ideas were introduced into both the Pioneer movement and Soviet architecture. This complex was built from 1959-1962 with a different architectural philosophy. The designers chose to combine architecture and visual arts in a single space in a way that previously had not been done in the Soviet Union. Different structures had different decorative themes to indicate what took place within, so there are musical notes hanging outside the concert hall. The main building is made reinforced concrete with a flat roof, plate glass windows and colored glazed brick murals. The interior has large spaces with an open plan layout and winter garden that, though a bit dated, still looks and works well over 50 years later.
The center includes the main structure or palace, with its study halls, studios and other rooms for indoor group activities, a small auditorium, a concert hall, a stadium, some playgrounds for sports, swimming pool, pond, nature trail, outdoor theater and some other structures for science experiments and other activities.
Today this Moscow Palace of Child (Youth) Creativity offers over 1200 groups and classes for children up to age 18. These extra-curricular activities cover a wide range of interests including visual arts, engineering, astronomy, ecology, technical sports, music, driving, creative development, scientific research and others. This center boasts that the vast majority of programs offered here (about 93%) are offered to young Muscovites free of charge.
By the late 1950s, new ideas were introduced into both the Pioneer movement and Soviet architecture. This complex was built from 1959-1962 with a different architectural philosophy. The designers chose to combine architecture and visual arts in a single space in a way that previously had not been done in the Soviet Union. Different structures had different decorative themes to indicate what took place within, so there are musical notes hanging outside the concert hall. The main building is made reinforced concrete with a flat roof, plate glass windows and colored glazed brick murals. The interior has large spaces with an open plan layout and winter garden that, though a bit dated, still looks and works well over 50 years later.
The center includes the main structure or palace, with its study halls, studios and other rooms for indoor group activities, a small auditorium, a concert hall, a stadium, some playgrounds for sports, swimming pool, pond, nature trail, outdoor theater and some other structures for science experiments and other activities.
Today this Moscow Palace of Child (Youth) Creativity offers over 1200 groups and classes for children up to age 18. These extra-curricular activities cover a wide range of interests including visual arts, engineering, astronomy, ecology, technical sports, music, driving, creative development, scientific research and others. This center boasts that the vast majority of programs offered here (about 93%) are offered to young Muscovites free of charge.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 55°42'10"N 37°33'16"E
- Vorobyovy Gory Metro Station 1 km
- Luzhniki Water Sports Centre 1.2 km
- Russian Academy of Sciences headquarters 1.7 km
- Rossiya Segodnya International Agency 4.5 km
- prospekt Vernadskogo, 41 строение 1 4.6 km
- New Tretyakov 4.8 km
- World Trade Center Moscow 6 km
- Central House of Tourists 6.2 km
- Peoples Friendship University of Russia 6.6 km
- Russian National Research Medical University 7.4 km
- Territory of the State Palace of Child and Youth Creativity 0.1 km
- Vorobyovsky Pond 0.4 km
- Leninsky prospekt, 52 0.6 km
- Leninsky prospekt, 60/2 0.7 km
- Gagarinsky District 0.7 km
- 2nd Quarter of the Southwest (Gagarin district) 0.9 km
- Square 1 km
- Akademichesky District 2.1 km
- Ramenki District 2.7 km
- Yugo-Zapadny Administrative Okrug 10 km
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