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Shchukino, Moscow — Area Guide & Where to Stay
The Kurchatov Monument marks Shchukino, a district of Moscow in the North-Western Administrative Okrug, grown around Laboratory Number 2.
About Shchukino
Where to stay in Shchukino
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
Shchukino is a residential district of Moscow, science more than tourism. Its streets run from the Kurchatov Center of Culture along Marshal Vasilevsky Street toward the green of Pokrovskoye-Streshnevo, more homes and laboratories than hotels. Rooms are few in this science-and-homes quarter of Shchukino.
Stay here if you want a quiet base near the Kurchatov House-Museum and the Pokrovskoye-Streshnevo parkland, with central Moscow a short metro ride away. The parkland softens the edge.
About Shchukino
What are the main landmarks in Shchukino?
Shchukino wears its science on its streets. The Kurchatov Monument, the Kurchatov House-Museum, and the Kurchatov Center of Culture honour the physics town of Laboratory Number 2, while the Andrey Bochvar Monument marks another of its researchers. Marshal Vasilevsky Street threads through it.
Nearby, the Church of the Protection of the Theotokos in Pokrovskoye-Streshnevo and the sculpture Athlete with a grenade add older and Soviet-era notes to the district.
What is the history of Shchukino?
Shchukino changed with Soviet science. Along its southern edge lies the old estate of Pokrovskoye-Streshnevo, an older ground of church and parkland beside the newer science town. Then came the laboratories.
The Academgorodok of Laboratory Number 2 rose here as a centre of Soviet physics, and the Kurchatov Monument honours the work that gave Shchukino its name in science.
Where is Shchukino?
Shchukino lies in the North-Western Administrative Okrug of Moscow, bordering Strogino District to the east and Khoroshevo-Mnevniki District to the north.
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Updated July 2026