Balashikha is the largest city in Moscow Oblast, Russia.
Understand
Balashikha was founded in 1830, and became the center of the textile industry, but that is now closed
Get in
By train
From the Kursk railway station (Kurskaya and Chkalovskaya stations) in Moscow, trains leave for the Balashikha station (41 minutes).
By car
The center of Balashikha is 6 km from the Moscow ring road. Gorkovskoe highway M7, Shchelkovskoe highway A103 and Nosovikhinskoe highway pass through the city.
Get around
There are 16 city bus routes and fixed-route taxis in Balashikha. Suburban routes connect Balashikha with the nearest metro stations and with the cities of Zheleznodorozhny and Reutov. Transit suburban routes follow from Moscow to settlements in neighboring districts of the Moscow region.
See
- Former estate of the Golitsyn princes, Pekhra-Yakovlevskoe, on the left bank of Pekhorka. In Soviet times, various higher educational institutions were located on the territory of the estate. Pehra-Yakovlevskoe is a monument of federal significance and is protected by the state.
- Gorenki is another old estate, on the southern side of Entuziastov highway, on the left bank of the Gorenki river. It has a cascade of seven ponds formed during the construction of the estate (three survived) with islands and bridges. In the second half of the 18th - early 19th centuries, the estate belonged to the family of the Razumovsky counts. Under Alexei Kirillovich Razumovsky, the largest botanical garden in Russia was built in Gorenki. The estate houses the Moscow regional sanatorium of extrapulmonary forms of tuberculosis "Red Rose".
- Museum of Local Lore, Lenin Avenue, 53, +7 495 529-02-13. M-F from 10:00 to 18:00, Sa Su from 10:00 to 17:00.
- Air Defense Museum, Zarya microdistrict, Lenin street, 6, +7 498 665-13-73, +7 498 665-41-38. W-Su 10:00 - 17:00. The only museum in Europe for the history of the Air Defense Forces. Adults - 100 руб per person. Students, schoolchildren, pensioners - 70 руб per person. Family excursions - from 500 руб. Photographing - 300 руб 2021-10-14
Do
- Sports and ski complex "Lisya Gora", Razinskoe highway, 69, +7 495 521-81-18, + 7-985-210-09-06. W-Su 10:00 - 17:00. 2021-10-14
Buy
Eat
Drink
Sleep
- Hotel complex , Karbysheva street, 2B . ☎ +7 (495) 521‒29‒52. From 1500 руб * Sport ,Razin street, 2. ☎+7 (495) 524-10-99. From 1400 руб * East Gate Hotel ,Lenin Avenue, 25. ☎+7 (495) 926-04-56. From 4300 руб * Hotel on Julius Fucik , Julius Fucik street, 1a . ☎ +7 (495) 521‒90‒76. From 4000 руб * Artiland , Novskoe shosse, 10. ☎+7 (495) 276‒21‒21. From 4500 руб. * Artilend , 143903, Moscow Region, Balashikha, Novskoe shosse 10. By public transport to the Shkola stop: From the Perovo metro station. Mar 2016