Ehrenpark
Coordinates: 48 ° 20 ′ 41.5 " N , 33 ° 30 ′ 11.8" E
| Ehrenpark парк Слави |
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| Park 2013 | |
| Basic data | |
| place | Schowti Wody |
| Created | 1957 |
| Buildings | Palace of Culture |
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| User groups | Foot traffic ; Leisure , events |
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| Parking area | 200,000 m² |
The Honor Park (Ukrainian парк Слави ; Russian парк славы ) is the central and the cityscape formative Park of the city Zhovti Vody in the Ukrainian Dnipropetrovsk Oblast .
The "Ehrenpark" is a city park of around 20 hectares in the center of Schowti Wody that was created in connection with the expansion of the city and the construction of the "Palace of Culture" in 1957 and, in addition to a few fountains , a café and an area for dance events, the greatest landmarks and most of the monuments in the city.
In addition to its function as an inner-city recreation and recreation area, it also serves the city's population as a venue and meeting place for demonstrations.
Attractions
First and foremost is the “Palace of Culture” (or “Center of Popular Culture and Leisure” as it is also called today), which was put into operation on the eve of the 40th anniversary of the October Revolution , November 6, 1957 Building for cultural events with, among other things, a 720-seat concert hall and the city's registry office . The designer of the building, originally called the “Palace of Culture Lenin”, is the Russian architect Oleksij Mykolaiowytsch Aleksandrov. Given its uniqueness, the “palace” was added to the list of architectural monuments of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast in 1985 . Also known is the 11.5 meter high " equestrian statue of the heroes of the war of liberation of the Ukrainian people 1648–1654", which depicts the three Cossacks Bohdan Khmelnyzkyj , Ivan Bohun and Maksym Krywonis , who led the Khmelnitsky uprising against the aristocratic republic of Poland-Lithuania. whose first battle took place at Schowti Vody .
To commemorate the fallen soldiers of the Great Patriotic War, there is a memorial and the " Eternal Flame " in the park, as well as a memorial to the memory of the Holodomor , a famine in 1932 and 1933, a memorial to commemorate the people killed the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and the Lenin Monument, inaugurated in 1967 in honor of the founder of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin . As a result of the change of government after the turmoil of the Euromaidan, the Lenin monument was removed from its base with a crane on February 26, 2014 and moved to the city's historical museum.
Eternal Flame
Equestrian statue of the Heroes of the War of Liberation of the Ukrainian People 1648–1654
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ A protest rally in Schowti Wody ( Memento of the original from August 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Ukrainian).
- ↑ uranium plant Vostgok Palace of Culture (Ukrainian).
- ^ Video of the fall of the monument in Schowti Vody , last accessed on February 27, 2014.
