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      🌳 Aviators Park

      Кузнецовская ул. (вход с восточной стороны)

      A park on the site of the Korpusny Aerodrome: a pond and a MiG-19 on a 12-metre pylon (1968).

      Aviators Park
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      Aviators Park
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      Aviators Park
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      • The park was laid out in 1966 on part of the former Korpusny Aerodrome.
      • At 32.53 hectares it is the second-largest park in the Moskovsky district after Victory Park.
      • The aerodrome opened in 1910, and in September 1911 the first competition of domestically designed aeroplanes was held here.
      • In June 1914 Sikorsky's Ilya Muromets took off from here on a flight from Petersburg to Kiev.
      • Novoizmailovsky Prospekt was laid out roughly along the former runway.
      • The monument with the MiG-19 was designed by the architects A. S. Chervyakova and S. A. Ushakov with the engineer A. I. Rybin.

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      • Moskovsky District: Novodevichy, the MiG and Chesma
      • A MiG over the Pond and the Striped Chesme Church

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