🏛 Main entrance to Sokolniki

The arched entrance complex of the park at Sokolnicheskaya Square, from which a wide avenue leads deep into the forest.

The name comes from sokolniki, falconers who trained hunting birds: Ivan the Terrible and Alexei Mikhailovich hunted here.
In 1878 the city bought the Sokolnichya and Olenya groves and set up a public park.
In 2019 a memorial sign was placed at the main entrance to Mayor Sergei Tretyakov, thanks to whom Sokolniki became a city park.
In 1931 Sokolniki was declared a park of culture and leisure; until 1937 it bore the name of People's Commissar Andrei Bubnov.
The park covers 516 hectares and borders Losiny Ostrov to the north.

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