🌳 Gorky Park

A big central park along the Moskva River with fountains, lawns, cafés, rentals and a skating rink in winter.

The park opened on 12 August 1928 on the site of the 1923 All-Russian Agricultural Exhibition, whose layout was designed by Konstantin Melnikov.
The park received Maxim Gorky's name in 1932.
On its very first day the park was visited by more than 100,000 people.
The main entrance arch was built in 1955 to a design by the architect Georgy Shchuko.
In the 1930s the park had an amusement parachute tower.
In spring 1943 captured German equipment was displayed here, including the first Tiger tank taken in working order.
From 1993 to 2014 a 50-tonne mock-up of the Buran spacecraft stood in the park.

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