🌳 Internationalists Park

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A park around Volkovsky Pond — the former bed of the Volkovka river — with a memorial to internationalist soldiers and an amphitheatre.

The park is named after the internationalist soldiers — participants in the Afghan war of 1979–1989.
There used to be the village of Romanovo here, later Ryleyevo: the houses were demolished, but some of the fruit trees survived.
Landscaping went on from the early 1980s, and the park was finally handed over in 1986.
The monument to the internationalist soldiers (sculptor N. Gordiyevsky) was installed in 1998.
The amphitheatre opened in September 2011, and the monument to special-forces fighters on 24 October 2012.
In 2018 residents collected more than 10,000 signatures against building a shopping centre on part of the park.

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