Sosnovka Park
Sosnovka Park is the most spacious in St. Petersburg, the greenest and, perhaps, the wildest; Sosnovka’s area exceeds 302 hectares. The territory is limited by Maurice Thorez, Svetlanovsky, Tikhoretsky and Severny avenues. Sosnovka park. Park plan. Photo March 26, 2014. Sosnovka consists of two parts: a landscaped park and an undeveloped forest.
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Sosnovka Park
All, albeit few, buildings for “cultural leisure” are located along Svetlanovsky Avenue and Maurice Thorez Avenue. A dense forest with thickets and swamps begins as soon as you cross Jacques Duclos Street, “disguised” as an ordinary alley, which crosses Sosnovka.
There are no attractions, cafes, rentals, or karaoke in Sosnovka Park. For the entertainment of vacationers, there are several sports and children's playgrounds, a football field, tables for chess players and a stage where there are concerts on holidays.
Instead of a shooting range in Sosnovka, there is a shooting range where you can learn to shoot skeet.
As for the “forest,” there really are swamps in which you can get stuck up to your knees, waist-deep, or even higher. And hummocks on which cranberries and even cloudberries grow.
In Soviet times, it was believed that swimming in the ponds of Sosnovka was unhygienic. And there’s no need - there’s Basseyka. Now the so-called Dog Pond near the shooting range has become very popular among swimmers. The remaining five peat ponds still do not seem attractive to swimmers, and serve more of an irrigation rather than a recreational function.
For a long time, feeding squirrels was the main attraction of the park. Sosnovsky squirrels ignored “forest” food - acorns or mushrooms - recognizing only nuts, preferably hazelnuts. By the end of the 1980s, the number of furry inhabitants of Sosnovka began to decline, almost in proportion to the expansion of new buildings around the forest park. In the 2000s, the population replenished again: thirty animals were brought from the national park on Vodlozero in Karelia.
Several dozen songbirds live in the forest park, and in the summer wild ducks nest near the ponds. Other forest birds have not yet hatched: woodpeckers, wagtails, magpies.
There are no attractions, cafes, rentals, or karaoke in Sosnovka Park. For the entertainment of vacationers, there are several sports and children's playgrounds, a football field, tables for chess players and a stage where there are concerts on holidays.
Instead of a shooting range in Sosnovka, there is a shooting range where you can learn to shoot skeet.
As for the “forest,” there really are swamps in which you can get stuck up to your knees, waist-deep, or even higher. And hummocks on which cranberries and even cloudberries grow.
In Soviet times, it was believed that swimming in the ponds of Sosnovka was unhygienic. And there’s no need - there’s Basseyka. Now the so-called Dog Pond near the shooting range has become very popular among swimmers. The remaining five peat ponds still do not seem attractive to swimmers, and serve more of an irrigation rather than a recreational function.
For a long time, feeding squirrels was the main attraction of the park. Sosnovsky squirrels ignored “forest” food - acorns or mushrooms - recognizing only nuts, preferably hazelnuts. By the end of the 1980s, the number of furry inhabitants of Sosnovka began to decline, almost in proportion to the expansion of new buildings around the forest park. In the 2000s, the population replenished again: thirty animals were brought from the national park on Vodlozero in Karelia.
Several dozen songbirds live in the forest park, and in the summer wild ducks nest near the ponds. Other forest birds have not yet hatched: woodpeckers, wagtails, magpies.
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