🌳 Sosnovka Park

вход со Светлановского проспекта

A huge pine forest park that was a military airfield during the war: trails, ponds and lots of squirrels.

The park covers 302 hectares and is one of the largest in the city.
In February 1840 Lermontov fought a duel here with Ernest de Barante, roughly at the crossing of Toreza and Svetlanovsky.
In summer 1844 Turgenev and Belinsky strolled along the pine alleys here.
In 1893 the forest was bought by the city mayor V. A. Ratkov-Rozhnov.
In 2003 the Republic of Korea gave 15 wooden jangseung totem posts; in 2015 they were removed because of vandalism.
In summer 1942 a special school training saboteurs in case Leningrad was captured was moved here.

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