🌳 Primorsky Victory Park

Крестовский остров

A big park in the western part of Krestovsky Island with ponds, canals and wide avenues.

The park was laid out at a mass volunteer work day on 7 October 1945 and opened on 30 July 1950, in honour of the naval victories of the Great Patriotic War.
The construction was led by the architect Alexander Nikolsky.
A triple lime avenue about 2 km long runs the whole length of the park from east to west, with an octagonal square and a fountain in the middle.
Bronze sculptures, “The Black Sea Sailor” and “The Girl Welcoming the Victors”, stand by the central square.
In the late 1940s the park covered 200 ha, and after the western part was built over in the 2010s its area shrank by almost half.

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