🌳 Polezhaevsky Park

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The remains of the Ligovo estate park: an Avenue of Glory with 900 birches, bridges over the Dudergofka, the foundation of a mill from 1755.

The park covers 156 hectares between Peterhof Highway, Marshala Zhukova and Veteranov avenues and Avangardnaya Street.
Serfs of Count Grigory Orlov began draining this area in the late 18th century.
From 1840 the estate was owned by General G. G. Kushelev, the manor was rebuilt by Andrey Stackenschneider, and the English landscape park was laid out then.
The park is named after the gold-mine owner and banker K. M. Polezhaev, who bought the estate around 1889.
The Ligovo manor palace was taken down for brick in winter 1932–1933.
For more than two years of the Siege the front line ran through the park.
Ligovsky Pond was drained before the war and was never restored after the locks were destroyed.