The distinctly English styled Hyde Park housing estate is located 25 km off the Moscow Circular Road on the highway leading to Kaluga. The village master plan envisages the construction of 224 cottages varying from 171 to 500sq.m of indoor space on plots of land varying from 800 to 2500sq.m.
Each dwelling is furnished with:
- Gas
- Running water
- Centralized sewer
- Autonomous heating
- Electricity
- A trouble shooting service communication line
The housing estate features:
- 24-hour security
- video surveillance
- overall perimeter fencing,
- each cottage fencing,
- sidewalks,
- convenient approaches to each cottage,
- street lighting,
- telephone
- the Internet connection.
The housing estate is located within the boundaries of a nearby village Sof’ino, which entitles cottage owners to a permanent registration in the Russian Federation.
Owners of the cottages located next to the adjacent forest are entitled to a 49-year lease of plots starting from 100sq.m in that forest.
The reliability of every structural element was a key factor in the conceptual basis of the cottage construction. We used only top quality building materials of European origin.
The cottages’ internal walls are made of cast-in-situ reinforced concrete with the use of retained foam-polystyrene shuttering manufactured by Mosstroy-1 Public Corp. The front walls are tiled with brick-replicating Kamrock tiles featuring an attractive appearance and an outstanding durability. Roofs are covered with flexible Katepal tiles.
The roof supporting structure is made of wood beams. The thermal insulation is composed of mineral wool mats. There are five options available in the roof construction. Windows are made of dual insulated glass units.
A footing of cast-in-situ reinforced concrete supports every cottage. Two options are available as far as the footing design is concerned.
At a customer request, the fencing can be made of bricks with a face fitting the general housing estate design. The history of Sof’ino goes back to the 14th century. The village together with a wooden St. George shrine belonged to the Savvo-Storozhevsky Monastery according to the 1558 cadastres. A 1461 Charter testifies to the effect that in the preceding century it had been called Chudinovsky by Sofia after the death of her husband Andrei Gavshin-Kobilyn who owned the village in the early 15th century. Then it was renamed as Sof’ino after the matron’s name. It lost most of the inhabitants in the Time of Trouble to become literally non-existent. Repopulated again, the village was gifted by the Tsar to the monastery that owned it until the mid 18th century.
There is an estate with a remaining part of a park of the early 19th century in Krasnoye village that is 2.5 km away from the Krasnaya Pakhra River. The Krasnoye estate is located on top of a hill towering over the Pakhra River. It came into existence long ago in the first quarter of the 17th century. Its first owner was I.B. Cherkassky, then his nephew Ya.K. Cherkassky. I.D. and I.M. Miloslavsky succeeded them as the estate owners in the second half of that century. The estate was small and nice looking against the background of a huge park and the Pakhra River. There is a St. John shrine about five kilometers outside Troitsk on the higher bank of the Stradanka River close to the confluence with the Pakhra River. It was constructed in 1703 by an Imeretian Duke Archil V. Bagrationi who moved to Russia from Georgia under the influence of his son Alexander. Duke Alexander Dadiani added an aisle to the shrine in the 18th century. There is also an Annunciation shrine built in 1777-1779. At least two other shrines preceded it. The Polivanovs had the first one made of logs in 1631. The Saltikovs later chose another site to build a stone shrine. A huge 12 hectare-park with two ponds and numerous alleys flanked with orchid trees, abeles and Siberian larches was added to the mansion at the Duke Rasumovsky’s request.
Analysts maintain that the highway to Kaluga acquires a growing popularity and rates next to the Rubliovo-Uspenskoe and Novorijskoe thoroughfares. The area between Moscow and Kaluga is also regarded as most favorable from the ecological point of view.
Kalujskoye highway runs across a land of the primordial Russian nature, uniquely beautiful, full of picturesque landscapes. The expanses of land on both sides of the highway are overgrown with those famous mixed forests interspaced with fields and meadows on the banks of the rivers Desna, Pakhra, Socenka, Mocha, Pol’anitsa, Lopasn’a and Nara. The area is rich in springs of clear drinking water. It is there that the “Shishkin forest” potable water is produced.
The environmental conditions provide for numerous opportunities of active leisure. The Mocha River is popular among kayak-paddling enthusiasts. The Silicati catacombs with the underground caves and 11km long labyrinths are a place of attraction for speleologists. Mushroom pickers find the area adorable, too. No one is left unimpressed by the Nara River 5-meter high Raduzhny waterfall formed by the confluence of numerous crystal-clear springs.