🌳 Nagatinskaya Poyma Park

A large park on a peninsula in a bend of the Moskva River, with an embankment, lawns and sports grounds.

The peninsula appeared in 1968, when a 3.5 km canal was dug to straighten the Moskva River.
To drain the marshy floodplain, more than 1 million cubic metres of soil were piled up here.
The name comes from the village of Nagatino; by one version, from the many gats (log roads over marsh).
In 1977 the 60th Anniversary of October Park was laid out here, created by workers of the ZIL plant and local residents.
In 2008 there were plans to build Norman Foster's 450-metre skyscraper, Crystal Island, here; the project was not realised.

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