South River Terminal, Passenger river terminal in Nagatinskiy Zaton district, Moscow, Russia
South River Terminal is a facility with multiple piers along the Moskva River where river cruises and passenger services depart. The various docks provide connections to destinations along the Moskva and Oka rivers during the navigation season.
The first South River Terminal opened in 1932 at the Kozhukhovsky harbour, a wooden building by Roman Khiher with an octagonal hall under a dark-blue star-painted dome. After a temporary pontoon stage from 1972, the reinforced-concrete terminal on the left bank was completed in 1985 and opened to passengers in 1986. The architect was Yuri Kogan of Giprorechtrans, not Alexei Rukhlyadev, who died in 1946. The first vessel to leave was the Pavel Yudin, bound for Astrakhan.
The terminal is the starting point of regular river route No. 2, ZIL — Pechatniki, and long-distance cruises. The first vessel to leave the 1985 building was the Pavel Yudin, on a tourist run to Astrakhan. The five female figures on the facade stood for the five seas linked to Moscow by water: Azov, Baltic, White, Caspian and Black.
The terminal sits on the left bank of the Nagatinskaya floodplain, where the Moskva River was straightened, and is served by Tekhnopark metro station nearby. Its 501-metre quay held nine berths: the first four for transit and cruise ships, the fifth and sixth for displacement motor ships on city lines, and the last three, fitted with bollards, for Raketa hydrofoils. It forms part of regular river route No. 2 between ZIL and Pechatniki.
The first vessel to leave the 1985 building was the Pavel Yudin, on a tourist run to Astrakhan. On the facade stood Salavat Shcherbakov's sculptural group of five female figures for the five seas linked to Moscow by water: Azov, Baltic, White, Caspian and Black. A large compass with Moscow at its centre closed the end wall.
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