🌳 Moscow Victory Park

A big park with ponds, islands and avenues, laid out in 1945 in honour of Victory.

The park was first begun in 1939–1941 as a park of culture and rest, designed by Tatyana Dubyago.
During the siege the bodies of the dead were burned at a brick factory on the park's site — by some accounts up to 110,000 Leningraders.
The Admiralty Pond is a former factory pit into which the ashes of those cremated during the siege were dumped.
Victory Park was founded on 7 October 1945 and opened on 7 July 1946.
The “Glasses” pond is marked on pre-revolutionary maps — one of the park's oldest elements.
The propylaea of the main entrance appeared in 1957.

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