Gorky Park

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Gorky Park (disambiguation) .

The central entrance portal of the Gorky Park on the Gartenring

The Gorky Park ( russian . Центральный парк культуры и отдыха им Максима Горького , complete translation: Central Maxim Gorky Park of Culture and Leisure ) is a Moscow amusement park on the right bank of the Moskva River , between the Garden Ring and the Sparrow Hills . It was opened in 1927 and is about 1.2 km² in size. The first director and artistic director was Betti Nikolajewna Glan .

The park houses small lakes with boat rentals as well as playgrounds and sports fields. There is also an event area where open-air concerts are regularly held. The OK-TWA prototype of the Buran space transporter is exhibited on the grounds of the park . It is a non-flightable test system that is used today as a cinema . In winter, some of the park's paths are converted into ice rinks .

The park can be reached via the two metro stations Park Kultury (Kolzewaya line) and Park Kultury (Sokolnitscheskaya line) on the opposite bank of the Moscow River .

In March 2011, Sergei Kapkov was appointed director of Gorky Park. He abolished the entrance fee and renewed and modernized it according to the western model.

In the media

The park named after the writer Maxim Gorky was also mentioned in the song Wind of Change by the band Scorpions ("... follow the Moskva, down to Gorky Park ..."). He is also eponymous for the book Gorky Park by the writer Martin Cruz Smith and the US feature film Gorky Park based on it .

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  View of the park from across the river

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  The big roller coaster until 2011, the former Euro star

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  Interior view of the colonnade of the central entrance portal

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  The Buran prototype moved to the VDNKh in the summer of 2014 .

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  The park of the Moscow River seen

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  The Art Garage museum

literature

• Yuri Trifonow , photos: Wilfried Bauer : Gorkipark: Garden on the Moskva. In: Geo-Magazin. Hamburg 1979, 10, pp. 36-56. Informative experience report from an insider. ISSN  0342-8311

Web links

Commons : Gorky Park  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of Gorky Park (Russian / English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Maria Bacharewa: New old splendor: Moscow's parks have been cleared out
2. ^ Maria Bacharewa: New old splendor: Moscow's parks have been cleared out
3. ↑ Friedrich Schmidt: Comfortable, safe, modern. Moscow is dressing up, Western metropolises are the model, in: FAS No. 1, January 7, 2018, p. 2.

Coordinates: 55 ° 43 ′ 41.3 "  N , 37 ° 36 ′ 7.8"  E