Translation. Region: Russian Federal
Source: Moscow Government – Government of Moscow –
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Sergei Sobyanin visited the house-museum of Fyodor Konyukhov, located on Balchug Island (Sadovnicheskaya Street, Building 77, Building 4).
"More than 20 years ago, Konyukhov founded a creative workshop in the center of Moscow, and over time it grew into a full-fledged museum exhibition. And now Fyodor Filippovich has decided to donate it to Muscovites. Now the building houses Konyukhov's expedition headquarters, where his paintings, books, photographs, and a unique collection of artifacts brought back from his travels are kept. Here you can also see the Turgoyak boat that conquered the Pacific Ocean, the legendary gondola of the super-high-altitude balloon, and much more," Sergei Sobyanin wrote in
Source: Sergei Sobyanin's Telegram channel @mos_sobyanin
The history of the house-museum on Sadovnicheskaya Street began in 2000, when Fyodor Konyukhov received this building for use as a member of the Moscow Union of Artists to create a creative workshop.
The walls of the house are decorated with memorial plaques dedicated to the exploits of Russian travelers and explorers such as Khariton Laptev, Nikolai Przhevalsky, Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay and pilot Valery Chkalov.
The adjacent territory features sculptures of Semyon Dezhnev, Grand Duke of Moscow Ivan III Vasilyevich, St. Sergius of Radonezh, busts of Fyodor Ushakov, Vladimir Vysotsky, Pavel Nakhimov and Ermak Timofeevich. There is also a large exhibition, which includes ship anchors of various shapes and sizes, bells, anchor chains, steering wheels and mountaineering ice axes.
In 2024–2025, the house-museum underwent renovation.
"We are doing this for you, so that your feat, your achievements, unique, absolutely unique, are preserved and so that the younger generation learns what you have done," said Sergei Sobyanin. "The most important thing in this museum is you yourself. Your feat, your love of life, your energy. May God grant you health."
Fyodor Konyukhov (born in 1951) is an outstanding modern traveler who has conquered all five oceans and the seven highest peaks of the continents, and was the first person in the world to cross the five poles of the planet. He made a round-the-world flight in a hot air balloon on his first attempt, rowed across the Atlantic, Pacific and Southern Oceans alone, crossed the Atlantic 17 times, circled the Earth five times, became the oldest ocean rower and set a record of 269 days in the Southern Ocean.
"But, you see, I will say: I love Moscow. I can't explain why I love it. Well, I've traveled a lot… It has a soul. Well, thank you, of course, to everyone, and especially to you," shared Fyodor Konyukhov.
Fyodor Konyukhov is a member of the Moscow Union of Artists, the Union of Writers of Russia, an academician of the Russian Academy of Arts, the author of more than three thousand paintings and over 20 books. He is also ordained a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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