Moscow Victory Park
Victory Park is located in the Moskovsky district of St. Petersburg. On the northern side it is bordered by Kuznetsovskaya Street, on the eastern side by Yuri Gagarin Avenue, on the southern side by Basseynaya Street, and on the western side by Moskovsky Avenue. Near it there is a metro station of the same name.
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Moscow Victory Park
Moscow Victory Park
Moscow Victory Park In 1935, a master plan for the development of Leningrad was adopted, in which Moskovsky Avenue was assigned the role of the new main thoroughfare of the city.
Representative residential areas began to be built around the new highway, a huge Palace of the Soviets was built, and administrative buildings appeared. It was decided to build a park on the site of the former Syzran field, occupied by the quarries of a brick factory. The park project was developed by a group of architects led by Tatyana Borisovna Dubyago. In 1939-1940, the project was ready, and the creation of a new park began. But the war that began in 1941 wrote its own project. On the territory of the future park, anti-tank ditches were dug and pillboxes were installed. At the beginning of the war, field training took place here. The brick factory itself became a crematorium during the siege of Leningrad. Leningraders who died from hunger, cold and bombing were brought here. Many thousands of bodies were buried right on the territory of the plant, since the plant did not have time to carry out its terrible work. The burial places were not marked. This place is rightly called the “second Piskarevka”. After the end of the war in October 1945 in Leningrad, in memory of the Victory, in defiance of the death and destruction caused by the war, two parks were simultaneously founded, the Moscow and Primorsky Victory Parks.
Later, similar parks appeared in other Russian cities. The territory on which the Moscow Victory Park is located is limited by Moskovsky Avenue and Yuri Gagarin Avenue, as well as Kuznetsovskaya and Basseynaya streets.
The total area of the park is 68 hectares. The post-war refinement of the layout of Moscow Victory Park was carried out by architects E. A. Katonin and V. D. Kirkhoglani. The main alley of the park, oriented towards the building of the Petersburg Sports and Concert Complex, is called the Alley of Heroes. Along it, on both sides, there are bronze busts of Leningraders, twice Heroes of the Soviet Union and Socialist Labor. The Alley of Heroes begins with a propylaea colonnade from Moskovsky Prospekt. The propylaea is decorated on the inside with bronze compositions dedicated to the exploits of Soviet soldiers and workers of besieged Leningrad. Behind the propylaea there is a fountain, which at the time of its creation was the largest in the city. The fountain is designed in the form of a granite bowl, decorated with bronze tulips and laurel wreaths. The diameter of the bowl is 25 meters. The layout of Moscow Victory Park combines elements of landscape and regular layout. The park was opened in July 1946, its territory was seven times smaller than what it occupies today. In a short period of time, in just one month, seventeen thousand trees were planted in the park. Now there are more than 100 species of different trees and shrubs in the park. Anti-tank ditches and craters from shells and bombs became ponds and canals in the park. There are a total of 10 ponds in the park. The park is decorated with numerous decorative sculptures. It is interesting that a monument to Stalin, as the main hero of the war, was supposed to be erected in the park, but as a result, a monument to Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov was erected in this place in 1995. The installation of the cuts in 1957 completed the work in the park.
In 1961, the Park Pobedy metro station was built in the southern part of the park on the site of a former brick factory. temple-chapel in the Moscow Victory Park in St. Petersburg On the sides of the park's main alley there are territories decorated in the spirit of an English landscape garden.
Picturesquely scattered pavilions, gazebos, granite slopes to figured ponds and canals with humpbacked bridges make these parts of the park especially attractive. The park has children's and sports grounds. In summer you can go boating and catamaran riding on the park's ponds, and in winter - ice skating. Once upon a time there was a chess club on the territory of the park. Now it is no longer there, but there are still many chess players in the park playing on the benches. In 2010, reconstruction of the park began, which will be carried out in parts until 2012. During this time, it is planned to plant new trees to replace the dead ones, repair paths and alleys, as well as hydraulic structures.
Moscow Victory Park In 1935, a master plan for the development of Leningrad was adopted, in which Moskovsky Avenue was assigned the role of the new main thoroughfare of the city.
Representative residential areas began to be built around the new highway, a huge Palace of the Soviets was built, and administrative buildings appeared. It was decided to build a park on the site of the former Syzran field, occupied by the quarries of a brick factory. The park project was developed by a group of architects led by Tatyana Borisovna Dubyago. In 1939-1940, the project was ready, and the creation of a new park began. But the war that began in 1941 wrote its own project. On the territory of the future park, anti-tank ditches were dug and pillboxes were installed. At the beginning of the war, field training took place here. The brick factory itself became a crematorium during the siege of Leningrad. Leningraders who died from hunger, cold and bombing were brought here. Many thousands of bodies were buried right on the territory of the plant, since the plant did not have time to carry out its terrible work. The burial places were not marked. This place is rightly called the “second Piskarevka”. After the end of the war in October 1945 in Leningrad, in memory of the Victory, in defiance of the death and destruction caused by the war, two parks were simultaneously founded, the Moscow and Primorsky Victory Parks.
Later, similar parks appeared in other Russian cities. The territory on which the Moscow Victory Park is located is limited by Moskovsky Avenue and Yuri Gagarin Avenue, as well as Kuznetsovskaya and Basseynaya streets.
The total area of the park is 68 hectares. The post-war refinement of the layout of Moscow Victory Park was carried out by architects E. A. Katonin and V. D. Kirkhoglani. The main alley of the park, oriented towards the building of the Petersburg Sports and Concert Complex, is called the Alley of Heroes. Along it, on both sides, there are bronze busts of Leningraders, twice Heroes of the Soviet Union and Socialist Labor. The Alley of Heroes begins with a propylaea colonnade from Moskovsky Prospekt. The propylaea is decorated on the inside with bronze compositions dedicated to the exploits of Soviet soldiers and workers of besieged Leningrad. Behind the propylaea there is a fountain, which at the time of its creation was the largest in the city. The fountain is designed in the form of a granite bowl, decorated with bronze tulips and laurel wreaths. The diameter of the bowl is 25 meters. The layout of Moscow Victory Park combines elements of landscape and regular layout. The park was opened in July 1946, its territory was seven times smaller than what it occupies today. In a short period of time, in just one month, seventeen thousand trees were planted in the park. Now there are more than 100 species of different trees and shrubs in the park. Anti-tank ditches and craters from shells and bombs became ponds and canals in the park. There are a total of 10 ponds in the park. The park is decorated with numerous decorative sculptures. It is interesting that a monument to Stalin, as the main hero of the war, was supposed to be erected in the park, but as a result, a monument to Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov was erected in this place in 1995. The installation of the cuts in 1957 completed the work in the park.
In 1961, the Park Pobedy metro station was built in the southern part of the park on the site of a former brick factory. temple-chapel in the Moscow Victory Park in St. Petersburg On the sides of the park's main alley there are territories decorated in the spirit of an English landscape garden.
Picturesquely scattered pavilions, gazebos, granite slopes to figured ponds and canals with humpbacked bridges make these parts of the park especially attractive. The park has children's and sports grounds. In summer you can go boating and catamaran riding on the park's ponds, and in winter - ice skating. Once upon a time there was a chess club on the territory of the park. Now it is no longer there, but there are still many chess players in the park playing on the benches. In 2010, reconstruction of the park began, which will be carried out in parts until 2012. During this time, it is planned to plant new trees to replace the dead ones, repair paths and alleys, as well as hydraulic structures.
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