Beket Pond, reservoir in Russia

Beket Pond is a reservoir in Russia surrounded by trees and grassy grounds with a wide walking path running around it. The water is shallow with rounded edges, creating a simple setting where visitors can walk, rest on benches, or watch waterfowl.

The pond takes its name from the former Beketov dacha, on whose site now stands the N. A. Alekseyev Moscow City Clinical Psychiatric Hospital, known from 1922 to 1994 as the Kashchenko Hospital. In the past a stream, the Beketovka, a right tributary of the Chura, may have flowed through the pond from south to north. The pond is fed by springs and is protected as one of Moscow's natural monuments.

The pond's name comes from the former Beketov dacha, whose grounds now hold the N. A. Alekseyev Moscow City Clinical Psychiatric Hospital, known from 1922 to 1994 as the Kashchenko Hospital. The southern shore keeps a sandy grass beach and two springs, and the water is fed by spring sources. Visitors come for waterside rest on the grass and benches; swimming is officially prohibited.

The pond lies where the Third Ring Road meets Bolshaya Tulskaya Street, in the Chura river floodplain by Zagorodnoye Highway. The southern bank is natural sand with a grass beach and two springs; the other banks are concrete with an asphalt path along the water. Swimming is officially prohibited, though anglers and walkers use the shore.

The pond lies in the floodplain of the Chura River and is fed by springs; two of them rise on the sandy southern bank behind the grass beach. In the past a stream, the Beketovka, may have flowed through the pond from south to north as a right tributary of the Chura. The pond is a protected natural monument of Moscow.