There are many places in Moscow where you can swim and just splash around.
Water is almost 800 times denser than air, so it is much more difficult to move in water. Swimming helps to develop flexibility, endurance, and train the main muscle groups.
What are the pools
Not all water bodies can be called swimming pools. You need to swim in sports facilities with a track length of 25 or 50 m. In such pools, as a rule, there are at least five tracks, and the water is heated only to 25-28C. Large pools also always have a gym, massage therapist, and beautician.
Swimming pool water is purified in different ways: chlorination, ozonation, ionization or ultraviolet light. But there is bleach in every cleaning method.
Chlorination is the most popular cleaning method. The chlorine in the water destroys bacteria and then the water is filtered.
The most technologically advanced purification method is ozonation. Ozone penetrates the bacteria shell and kills them.
During ionization, the water is treated with silver and copper ions, due to which bacteria stop multiplying.
Medical certificate
The pool certificate can be obtained in two ways. I have to go to the clinic to see an infectious disease doctor. The doctor can issue a certificate right away, or he may ask you to take urine and feces tests, and bring fluorography and a certificate from the KVD, and only after that he will give you the necessary document.
However, there is a much simpler method. You need to go to any paid clinic to see a dermatologist or infectious disease specialist and just buy a certificate, which will cost you about 700 rubles.
There are also medical rooms at the pools, where you can also get a certificate for 150–300 rubles.
Pool equipment
If you think that you do not need anything to visit the pool, you are deeply mistaken. To visit the pool you will need: rubber slippers, bathing suit, swimming goggles, rubber cap, towel, shower accessories.
Pool in the palace
The most popular pools are located in the sports palaces. All serious competitions are held here.
Swimming pool in the sports complex "Olympic"
The pool was built in 1980 for the Moscow Olympics. The pool has three baths, ten 50-meter lanes over two meters deep and a 65-meter water slide. The water in the pool is 25–26 C, therefore, in order not to freeze, you will have to swim vigorously.
The "Jumping Bath" has a size of 25x33 m, and its depth is 6 meters. Here you can jump from a tower, go diving or just swim.
This pool is considered one of the best in Moscow. There are a lot of children at Olimpiyskiy during the day. The pool building has a gym, massage room and solarium, sports shop, snack bar, hairdresser and more. On weekdays, daytime sessions from 07:00 to 15:15 cost 200 rubles, for evening sailing from 18:15 to 22:45 - 280 rubles. The last session starts at 22:00. In the morning on weekdays, benefits are provided for pensioners - 90 rubles for a demonstration and training bath, for students - 95 rubles for a jumping bath.
You can also purchase a subscription, according to which one day lesson will cost 120 rubles, and an evening one - 180 rubles. Subscriptions for the next month are sold from the 23rd to the 30th.
If you don't know how to swim, you can sign up for courses that run in cycles of September-November, December-February, March-May. A three-month subscription costs 2,400-3,000 rubles, classes are held once a week.
Also in "Olimpiyskiy" they conduct water aerobics classes for 250-320 rubles, family sessions for 250-270 rubles.
Swimming pool CSKA
The pool area is very nice, however many complain about uncomfortable lockers and dirty toilets. But in the pool itself it is quite free.
The pool was built in 1954, it has eight 50-meter paths with towers and a 17x3.5 m paddling pool for children.
A single visit to the pool costs 700 rubles, a monthly subscription for eight sessions - 3200 rubles. And if you buy a subscription for 4500 rubles, you can visit the pool at least every day.
Swimming pool MOCVD
The Moscow Olympic Aquatics Center consists of three separate buildings. The Neptune outdoor pool, which is 2.5 m deep and 50 m long, is only admitted to adults. On weekdays, the pool is open from 6:45 to 20:15, on weekends from 8:00 to 19:30. A visit to the pool costs 220 rubles for morning sessions and 260 rubles for evening sessions. If you purchase a subscription, the cost of the lesson will decrease by 30 rubles.
There are two indoor baths in the Swimming House of the MOSVS: a training one and a demonstration one. There is also a games room and a trampoline room with a foam pit.
Swimming pool of the sports complex "Luzhniki"
The pool has three baths: an open 50-meter and two indoor 25-meter. Swimming is allowed from 7:00 to 20:00 on weekdays, on Saturday from 7:00 to 18:00, on Sunday from 9:00 to 15:00.
A single visit to the outdoor pool costs 230 rubles per hour, and 600 rubles - no time limit. A medical certificate is bought on the spot for 300 rubles for a subscription or for 150 rubles for a month.
Swimming is taught in the indoor pools. The course lasts one month and is designed for 12 lessons. A group lesson costs 4,300 rubles per course, an individual lesson - 1,000 rubles per lesson.
Pool "Trud"
The pool has a voluminous bathtub 50 meters long and 5 meters deep. To visit the pool, you need to buy a subscription: for 2.5 months for 3100 rubles, for 6 months for 8900 rubles, for a year for 13 200 rubles.
Diving is also possible here. A swim with your own equipment costs 500 rubles, with a club one - 650 rubles.
Swimming pool of the sports school "Moskvich"
Pool access available from 7:00 AM to 10:30 PM The pool has eight 50-meter lanes with a depth of 1.5 to 2.5 m.
A single visit is allowed only on Sunday and costs 210 rubles. But there are many different subscriptions that cost from 500 to 1700 rubles per month.
The complex has a gym and solarium. There is a doctor at the pool who checks all the documents.
Swimming pool "October"
The pool has eight 50-meter lanes with a depth of 1.5 to 6 meters. There is also a small pool for children from 4 years old. The pool has a solarium, massage, shop. There are aqua aerobics classes and a diving club.
The cost of visiting the pool on weekdays from 12:00 to 15:00 is 220 rubles, at other times - 280 rubles. You can also purchase a subscription.
Outdoor pool "Chaika"
Pool access available from 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM. There are two baths: a training 50-meter and a 25-meter jump. Here you can attend classes for amateur water polo and aqua aerobics. A medical certificate can be purchased on the spot for 150 rubles per month, and 500 rubles for six months.
Pool addresses:
- The swimming pool in the SC "Olympiyskiy" is located at the address: Olimpiyskiy Avenue, 16/2. Phone: (495) 786-32-16, 786-32-04.
- The CSKA swimming pool is located at 39 Leningradskiy Avenue, building 9. Phone: (495) 613–69–07, 613–25–83, 613–18–05, 613–29–54.
- Swimming pool MOCVS is located at: st. Ibragimov, 30. Phone: (495) 369-48-03.
- The Palace of Water Sports is located at: st. Mironovskaya, 27. Phone: (495) 369-74-44.
- The swimming house is located at st. Ibragimova, 32. Phone: (495) 369-06-49.
- Swimming pool "Trud" is located at the address: Varshavskoe shosse, 14. Phone: (495) 958-15-01, 958-14-30.
- The children's pool of the Palace of Youth Creativity is located at st. 1st Vladimirskaya, 20а. Phone: (495) 672-59-44.
- Swimming pool of the sports school "Moskvich" is located at st. Lublinskaya, 15. Phone: (495) 179–31–23.
- The Luzhniki outdoor pool is located at: Luzhnetskaya embankment, 24, building 4. Phone: (495) 637–07–64, 637–07–95.
- Swimming pool "Youth" is located at: st. Academician Bakulev, 5. Phone: (495) 438-95-66.
- The outdoor pool "Chaika" is located at 1/3 Turchaninov lane. Phone: (495) 246-13-44.
- Swimming pool "Olympic Village" is located at: Michurinsky Avenue, 2. Phone: (495) 437-06-98.
- Pool "Coral" is located at st. Talalikhina, 28. Phone: (495) 676-54-66.
- Swimming pool "October" is located at st. Picturesque, 21. Phone: (499) 728-53-90.
- The pool of the equestrian sports complex "Bitsa" is located at the address: Balaklavsky prospect, 33. Phone: (495) 318-53-66.
Text / Olga Kosenok /
Preview photo / Etienne Girardet / unsplash.com
The construction of the pool on the site of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, which was demolished in the 30s, began in 1958, and in 1960 the pool received its first visitors. The new sports facility quickly became a favorite place for Muscovites to relax and play sports. The pool was open all year round, even in winter you could see the swimmers in it. It was the largest swimming pool in the USSR and one of the largest swimming pools in the world at that time. He implemented a fundamentally new concept of water recreation, when in the pool the lanes were only in a small segment, and the rest of the space was available for swimming up and down.
Start of construction of the Palace of Soviets. Photo of the 1930s ... 
The palace was never built ... 
It's time for a fascinating story. All of you probably know that there is a sea near Moscow (http://www.bibliotekar.ru/evrika/2-14.htm). It is located at depths of 1000 - 1400 m). So, when the famous Moscow pool was being built, there was an idea to fill the pool with this sea water, but for some reason this did not happen.
Moscow has experience in drilling wells to the sea. Wells for the extraction of ancient sea water were drilled by workers of the Promburvod Trust of the Ministry of Installation and Special Construction Works of the USSR. One of the wells is at the Moscow Meat Processing Plant on Talalikhin Street. There is another well on Talalikhin Street - at the balneological hospital. Wells were drilled in a number of sanatoriums near Moscow - "Dorokhovo", "Monino", "Arkhangelskoye" and others. In wartime, salt was mined from these waters, when the path to the original salt-producing regions was cut off by the enemy.
An eyewitness account: "Having heard about this, the director of the Moscow Basin I.S. Stopani, at his own peril and risk, began drilling work in the place where the monument to the tsar now stands. We walked 70 meters with a slotting machine. And no matter how you pass by, from there is a solid mat behind the fencing of the drilling rig. I am interested - what is the matter? Drillers say that the lid of the chisel is constantly clogged with something and does not allow to work, you have to raise the tool to the surface. Most likely, it was an alloy of lead and tin, poured into the wells during the construction of the Temple in 1839. Wow, the foundation, the elements of which went 70 meters.
But back to modern drilling operations. The day came when the slotting machine had to be replaced on the rig in order to travel approximately 1650 meters more. For the work done, the drillers gave the Moscow Sports Committee a bill equal to almost its annual budget. And the case hung in the proceedings. In the end, the well was shut down in accordance with the established norms. "
The first time after its opening in Moscow there were rumors that people often drown in it. Especially in winter. Allegedly, a certain sect of "drowners" was operating, avenging the construction of a "giant puddle" on the church site. How much this corresponded to reality is not known. Most likely another urban legend.
The Moscow pool had a round shape, was divided into several sectors, with men's and women's dressing rooms. There was also a sports sector with a separate entrance and no access from the general sectors. The sports sector had a diving tower with different heights, a sauna and a steam room.
In order to swim in the Moscow pool, a doctor's certificate was not required. Tickets were sold at the box office near the exit from the Kropotkinskaya metro station. In the pool, swimwear, swimming trunks, slippers, hats, fins, masks and snorkels were rented out. Various disinfectants were used to disinfect the water. The medical staff of the Moscow swimming pool strictly monitored the sanitary condition of the water, outflows and shower rooms.
For all 33 years of the existence of the Moskva Basin, the Sanitary and Epidemiological Station has never made a claim to the quality of the water. The pool water was not only passed through sand filters, but also chlorinated. The pool had its own laboratory constantly working, water sampling for samples was carried out every three hours (and the sanitary and epidemiological station selected samples weekly). 
In the first ten years, bactericidal installations were included in the water treatment cycle, irradiating water with ultraviolet light (PRK-7 mercury-quartz lamps, 1.0 kW). Studies have shown that the water treatment cycle can be carried out without them, while the water quality does not suffer.
Eyewitness story: "I worked part-time in the pool as a" watch "(kept order on the water). Every day we took water samples for analysis. There was chlorine and copper sulfate in the water. I swam for 5 years and did not catch the infection when the water began to bloom, then they drained the water and cleaned the bottom. There are more chances of catching the infection in the bathhouse. By the way, there are a lot of children whom we taught to swim there. Coaches from the Children's Sports School came and selected the most promising. "
Student joke - Archimedes' law for the Moskva swimming pool: A body immersed in the Moskva swimming pool displaces another body from the water.
Eyewitness recollections: “I remember that it was not always cleaned on time, and somehow I had to swim with algae (green ones that covered the bottom and walls of the pool). There were benches along the pool, and many people, starting in April, could not I still remember that in the last years of the pool's operation, there were some kind of "discos" arranged there, there were either night or just evening sessions, accompanied by loud music and multi-colored lighting.
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1968. Please note: most of the area of the "Moscow" pool in those years was closed for swimming (in the picture on the left). This was due to the fact that the bottom was very poorly visible at a depth of 2.40 meters. Especially in winter, when there was already strong steam above the water, and here the bottom was overgrown with green algae. The visibility was poor and it was difficult to see the man sinking to the bottom. It will take several years - the depth will be filled with concrete, the bowl will rise to the level of 1.85 m, and the entire pool area will again become available for swimming. 
The pool was open all year round, even in winter. The water temperature was maintained by artificial heating ... Memoirs dedushkin1: "In winter, I remember, it was scary to look from the land at the" crazy ", splashing in the 20-degree frost in the clouds of steam. But he himself went in winter more than once. The water was warm, absolutely It was not cold. Only I had to dive often, otherwise my hair began to be covered with ice. " 
The pool had such a huge evaporation area of the water surface that it caused corrosion in neighboring buildings. This was especially evident in winter, when a wall of steam constantly stood over the entire structure. The pool was located opposite the Pushkin Museum, from the latter there were complaints that such a neighborhood spoiled the exhibits in it. 
The central swimming pool Moskva ceased operations four years before its demolition. In 1991, prices for hot and cold water and electricity skyrocketed and the cost of service became unprofitable. For more than 3 years, the pool bowl stood without water, which led to deformation of the expansion joints. The pipeline network is badly corroded.
On September 16, 1994, I was sitting in the office of the pool director, when the chief accountant brought an order from the Sports Committee to liquidate the pool.
The condition of the expansion joints of the pool after it has stood for several years without water 
Having removed the concrete cushion of the pool, the builders discovered huge pits (clogged with debris and flooded with groundwater, left over from the pillars of the Palace of Soviets. 
An eyewitness account: "When the concrete basement of the Palace of Soviets was cleared, they drove a small drill rig to explore the underlying soil. And when they took out the drilling tool, a fountain of water hit a 10-15 cm high from the hole. And so in several places. Even before the start of construction, we predicted a strong backing of the foundation by groundwater, this is not only the under-channel runoff of the Chertoriy brook driven into the pipe (it is under-channel, that is, not included in the collector). direction - from the side of the Museum of Fine Arts on Volkhonka. / --- / Earlier I thought that it would be very difficult to pass the concrete, because the cement brand "DS" was developed for it. But the drill wall tool easily pierced the base mass. surprise, the chief construction engineer replied that concrete might be good, but the quality of the sand left much to be desired ... "
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