←A Walk Around Grozny

A Walk Around Grozny

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6 points3 km2.5 hours

This route takes you past the main sights on the right bank of the Sunzha River: a park, monuments, a church, and the main mosque of the Chechen Republic.

Route author

Susanin Team

Things to do

  • 👀 Watch city life
  • 📜 Learn the city's history

Route points (6)

  1. Avenue of Akhmat-Khadzhi Kadyrov, First President of the Chechen Republic and Hero of Russia — point on route “A Walk Around Grozny”

    Avenue of Akhmat-Khadzhi Kadyrov, First President of the Chechen Republic and Hero of Russia

    📜 Historic site · 🕵️ Urban legend

  2. Grozny City — point on route “A Walk Around Grozny”

    Grozny City

    🏙 Modern architecture · 🔭 Viewpoint

  3. Flower Park — point on route “A Walk Around Grozny”

    Flower Park

    🌿 Public garden or park

  4. Church of the Archangel Michael — point on route “A Walk Around Grozny”

    Church of the Archangel Michael

    🕍 Place of worship

  5. Chechen State University — point on route “A Walk Around Grozny”

    Chechen State University

    📜 Historic site

  6. Minutka Square — point on route “A Walk Around Grozny”

    Minutka Square

    🏙 Modern architecture

Minutka Square in Chechen Republic

Point on route “A Walk Around Grozny”

Minutka Square — point on route “A Walk Around Grozny”
Minutka Square — point on route “A Walk Around Grozny”
Minutka Square — point on route “A Walk Around Grozny”
Minutka Square — point on route “A Walk Around Grozny”

Point 6

Minutka Square

🏙 Modern architecture

Overview

Today Minutka Square can be called Grozny's calling card. Here stand domed high-rises designed by famous Azerbaijani architects. A complete reconstruction of the square was finished in 2022. The main attraction of the renewed Minutka is a unique spiral-shaped structure, a high-definition LED screen, which shows public service videos, footage about Chechen history and culture, and more.

Myths and Legends

One of the city's landmark squares divides roughly in half the Avenue of Akhmat-Khadzhi Kadyrov, First President of the Chechen Republic and Hero of Russia. According to one local legend, the name took hold back in Soviet times at the wish of local residents. At that time a narrow-gauge railway ran through the city. Where Minutka Square is now, there was a stop where the train halted for just one minute, hence the name Minutka (“Just a Minute”).