Where to Stay in Mytishchi, Moscow Oblast

What is Mytishchi known for?

The aqueduct of 1804 was the first pipeline built to supply Moscow, and the ensemble of the Mytishchi water-lifting station, with its pumping station and its first engine hall, still stands from that work. Machinery and armaments came later, and Mytishchi grew into one of the principal industrial centres of Moscow Oblast on the strength of them. The Water tower of Mytishi marks the same story in miniature.

Trade came earlier still, when the Yauza River carried goods past this point.

What are the main landmarks in Mytishchi?

Taininskoye Church is the oldest thing most visitors come for, with the ground of the Tayninskoye Palace beside it. Water dominates the rest. The aqueduct of 1804, the Water tower of Mytishi and the Mytishchi water-lifting station, with its pumping station and stables, form one industrial group running through the city.

The Church of the Vladimir Icon of the Our Lady and the Church of the Epiphany in Nikolskoye-Bogoyavlenskoe cover the parish side. Older housing survives in the Buyanovy house and in the Old building of Mytishchi railway station.

What is the history of Mytishchi?

Mytishchi is on record from 1460, long before industry or pipes. Traders moving goods along the Yauza River used the place as a waypoint, which is the oldest reason the settlement mattered at all. Taininskoye Church and the site of the Tayninskoye Palace belong to that earlier landscape, when this was river country rather than a city.

Then came the water. The aqueduct of 1804 was built to carry supply into Moscow, the first pipeline of its kind, and the Mytishchi water-lifting station grew around the same task, its pumping station and engine hall standing alongside stables and a filtration building. Rail followed water.

The Moscow-Yaroslavl railway put a station here, and the Old building of Mytishchi railway station survives from that period, while the Yaroslavl Highway carried road traffic through the same corridor. Machinery and armaments turned Mytishchi into one of the principal industrial centres of Moscow Oblast, and housing and civic building followed the factories. The zemstvo hospital and the House of Soviets date from those two waves.

Dachas belong to the story too, through the Grube dacha ensemble and houses such as the Buyanovy house. Mytishchinsky District has been administered from the city.

Where is Mytishchi?

The Yauza River runs through Mytishchi, which covers roughly 35 square kilometres of Moscow Oblast about 19 kilometres northeast of Moscow. The river ordered the early town. Taininskoye sits on the older river side, while the works and the blocks that serve them fill the ground between the Yaroslavl Highway and the Moscow-Yaroslavl railway.

Sgonniki lies out beyond the built-up edge, with its Church of the Epiphany in Nikolskoye-Bogoyavlenskoe.

What is the climate of Mytishchi?

The Yauza River freezes over in the depth of the year, and the aqueduct that made Mytishchi's name had to be built for a place where water locks solid for months at a stretch. Summer is brief and green. Snow lies on the grounds at Taininskoye through the long middle of the year, which is why the Mytishchi History and Art Museum takes the weight of the visiting season.

Spring runs late.

How do you get to Mytishchi?

The Moscow-Yaroslavl railway is the direct answer, running out of Moscow through Mytishchi and stopping beside the Old building of Mytishchi railway station. Roads work as well. The Yaroslavl Highway passes through the city, which keeps the drive out from the capital to a matter of 19 kilometres rather than an expedition into the country.

Inside Mytishchi, the Water tower of Mytishi and the Yauza River are the two things that orient a newcomer fastest.