$90/NIGHT, $500/WEEK, $1400/MONTH
(utilities
included; no surprise fees)
AIR! WI-FI!
Available for rent every summer. There is a distinct possibility it will at some point be rented out full time as a move either to Israel or to Kandalaksha is presently being contemplated..
Back to the
List of apartments
Write to Alexandra
with a copy to me
More
neighbourhood
attractions
April
2012:
See new description at
www.cheap-moscow.com/blog/
AIR
CONDITIONING!!!
ELECTRIC
WATER HEATER FOR TIMES WHEN THE CENTRAL HOT WATER SUPPLY IS DOWN.
The kitchen
Pasha himself in the nearby Sokolniki park working on the apartment description
Children's bed
is good enough for not too large of an adult.
Another view of the kitchen
The bedroom
If you want a cheap ($25/night, $500/month) room in the Gardens area see Snejana Mother's Room at the Rooms & Homestays page.
The "Apothecary Garden" run by the Botanical Department of the Moscow
State University is about 20 min. walk south towards the city center
from Alexeyevskaya, at Prospekt Mira 26, opposite the Olympic Center.
Their site: www.hortus.ru (Russian
only).
The place may be cheap but the owner is very particular
about paper quality.
Three minutes walk from Metro Alexeyevskaya, north west from the city center, between Rizhsky Railroad Station and the Exhibition Grounds. Ten minutes by Metro to the center of Moscow.
The area is populated by "intelligensia" - writers, TV people, movie studio employees and the like. Very few factory types and their noisy prodigy.
Close to Metro, easy access to the city center, several parks within walking distance. 15-20 min. walk to VDNKh, Ostankino TV center, Ostankino park, or Sokolniki park. 15 min. ride to the Botanical Gardens. 15 min. ride to the Losinny Ostrov (Moose Island) park. 3 min. metro ride to the Riga Train station, and 15-20 min. to the Leningradsky, Yaroslavsky, and Kazansky train stations.
Lots of shops, banks, cafes, and restaurants. Safe. Next door to the district police headquarters.
Washing machine, TV, DVD player, music center.
Feb. 3 2011: No more TV. While we have nothing against the box, as of recent it has been showing nothing but crude government propaganda mixed with entertainment for retards. Alexandra placed an ad in www.avito.ru and within hours the TV set was gone! DVD player is also gone. The music center from what I know is still there though..
The bedroom has a double bed and a small desk.
The larger room has a single fold-out bed and a desk, and a combination of children desk/bed that will suit an adult who is not too large. I, with my 5'8" and 170lbs, spent a night there and found the arrangement comfortable and fun.
The apartment has not been renovated for a while, has some clutter that cannot be removed, and is available only in the summer, thus the low rate.
The
kitchen is brand new. Except for the refrigerator.
About Alexandra, the owner of the apartment:
A writer with specialization in compiling biographies of weird and fanatical researchers of the Far North. Spends every summer at the Kandalaksha Nature Reserve on the White Sea feeding mosquitoes, measuring Eider eggs, and collecting their castings. The rest of the year she makes a living as an editor. Loves old cemeteries and can be hired to do archive work. Although Alexandra denies that she speaks English I'm more than sure she does. Has a son, 11, who attends a school that specializes in natural sciences, and a Chow-Chow dog over which I regularly stumble.
A few photos of Prospekt Mira, the neighbourhood's main drag
Alexeyevskaya Metro. 3-5 min. walk.
Easy car and Metro access to the city center. Near a major
highway that will take you north from Moscow, towards Sergiev
Posad, Pereslavl-Zalessky, and Yaroslavl. See my
www.staritsa.info project in you plan to travel through
towns between Moscow and St. Petersburg or visit the "Golden
Ring".
A cluster of stores (pharmacy, mobile phones, shoes, flowers, newspapers and what not) by the Metro entrance.
The first snowfall of the year. Traffic is standing still..
Almost walking distance to the Exhibition Grounds, the
Ostankino Palace, and the TV center.
That's the building itself. Alexandra's apartment is on the 5th floor facing south-east and north-east.
The Riga train station. 9-10 hours and $40 and you are out of Russia.
Street toilets. Entry fee 20 roubles (about 70 cents). Often dirty and poorly equipped but it still needs to be admitted that, while the country as a whole is going to hell, the shitter situation is steadily improving.
A view from the window looking south-east. The middle
of winter, soggy weather. (Soon to be replace with something green
and cheerful and otherwise deceitful.)
Remnants of the water theme playground by the water pump factory
The water pump factory
Despite Alexeyevskaya being a upscale area you will find
a good and inexpensive local-style lunch at the Water Pumps Factory
cafeteria.
More
>>
Sokolniki (Falconer) Park
Same pond in summer. A rare yellow duck that
normally nests in cliffs can now live in cracks in apartment buildings
while flying to the pond for their specifically duck things.
Seen
Jan. 24 2011 by the railroad crossing, 10 min. walk from Alexandra's
apartment. Ironically, you'll see more moose close to Moscow or even in
the city because here they are not being hunted, unlike in more remote
places.
Polar bears club at one of the park's ponds
Children's Shelter built and supported in 1896 by the marchant
family Bakhrushins. Presently occupied by the bankrupt Mir Publishers. A
delight for the connoisseurs of urban decay.
The "urban decay" territory is liked by drug users.
Why is it so cheap? 70s "Soviet" decor. Small. No frills. A bit of clutter that can't be removed. Just a place to stay and work, no more and no less.