Moscow > Garden - Gorky Central

Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leisure

The Park was opened in 1928 and became a symbol of the happy Soviet childhood for long. The central entrance, made in a sonorous, even rousing style (architect Vladimir Shchuko) is a sample of architecture embodying the entire epoch in the history of our country. In Gorky Park of the Soviet times, there were attractions for children, exhibition booths, a fountain, and flowerbeds. Since 90s of the preceding century, the Park has changed to some extent and not all the changes do good to it The revamped Park appeared to its visitors upon reconstruction in 2011. Entrance became free again, and it is also 24/7. New, up-to-date attractions for kids and adults became available: Bikes and pedal cars rental ping-pong tables, tennis and badminton courts, a rink, boat stations with pedal boats and catamarans hire at Pionersky and Golitsinsky ponds. Here, you will find a color-and-light musical fountain, programs for kids, and for the elder ones - free Wi-Fi, 'Olive Beach' for 500 visitors, free classes in fitness, dances, Yoga, and Qigong. And many, many other things.? On the tracks of Sigeric

Garden - Gorky Central

Park of Culture and Leisure (without visiting museums) is 3-4 hours 'golden brains' has become a familiar decoration of the entire district. Please note that another viewing point is situated near to it Neskuchny (the Jolly) Garden. This cozy park is made of areas owned by different people, each of whichloved this place very much and set it upi For example, industrialist Prokofy Demidov created a botanical garden here, having collected a plenty of plant species from all over the world. They say that even pineapples grew in his garden. And the crowd-pleaser of entire Moscow, Count Orlov Chesmensky arranged festivities for his daughter here. Emperor Nikolas I of Russia unified the lands having secured for them the name of one of the manors - Neskuchnoye, and presented it to his spouse. However, since the royal couple was in St Petersburg more frequently, a free access was opened for all the citizens here, and they used that opportunity with pleasure. N

owadays, Neskuchny Garden is a part of the Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leisure, and it is still a separate place that became additionally known for its Hunting Box after the 'What? Where? When?' intellectual show game had started being broadcasted from there. Among the places of interest we should specially mention the Old Building of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences - a palace that was first owned by Prokofy Demidov, then by Aleksey Orlov, and then - by the royal couple, Emperor Nikolas I of Russia and Alexandra Feodorovna, and also a round arbor constructed in honor of the 800th anniversary ofMoscow and some other park structures of centuries 18th-19th. The Green Theatre. The building of the theater was built in 1956-1957, although the theater history of the Neskuchny Garden is rooted deeper.

Thus, its former owner, Count Alexey Orlov, had his own hir theatef, using the softscape as decorations for it Now, Stas Namin's Music and Drama Theater is situated here, offering its spectators interesting music performances and musicals. Moreover, concerts of well-known musicians are conducted in the 'Green Theatre', too.