Catherine Park

Catherine Park is located between Soviet Army Street, Olympic Avenue, Trifonovskaya Street and Suvorovskaya Square. It includes a monument of garden and park art "Ekaterininsky Park" and adjacent territories. Historically, the territory had no buildings for a long time, the Naprudnaya River flowed here, a tributary of Neglinnaya. Along its bed there were several ponds, of which only the lower one, located in the park, has been preserved. The development of the area began in the XV century, when in the upper reaches of the Naprudnaya river there was a royal village, where in 1492 the church of Tryphon was built. In the XIV century in the area of the river Naprudnaya transferred Cross-Vozdvizhensky monastery. In the 1630s, the stone church of John the Warrior was built here. Most of the territory during this period was occupied by groves, meadows and pastures. Since the late 1860s. The Catherine Institute began to lease the former garden lands located north of the pond. By the end of the 1880s, a system of small plots had formed northeast of the Institute’s ownership. To approach them, new streets are laid: Large and Small Catherine. Another plot within the boundaries of ownership in 1888 was leased by an honorary citizen, commercial adviser, Alexander Immer, created an experimental seed station and a plant nursery, with greenhouses and greenhouses. At the beginning of the XX century, the development arose in the area of Trifonovsky Lane in the immediate vicinity of the Naprudnaya River, which in 1920-1930 is enclosed in a pipe, after which the site began to gradually be equipped with residential wooden houses. In the 30s. demolished the Church of John the Warrior, and within the boundaries of church ownership erected seven-storey buildings of the hotel TsDKA. In 1935-1941, the Red Army Theatre was built on Catherine Square. In 1979, the Olympic Avenue was laid through the park, which completely violated the historical structure of the district. The whole old building was demolished. In 1970-1980, construction began on the territories adjacent to the park. Sports complex "Olympic", hotel, multi-storey residential development. From the north-west is laid the street of the Soviet Army. On the territory of the park (Green Beam) the Museum of the Armed Forces and the Grekov Studio of Military Artists were built. On January 3, 1999, the Mayor of Moscow decided to create a complex of social services and cultural recreation. Catherine Park is part of the Northern Green Ray and has the status of a natural complex of the city and a valuable urban landscape. The core of the park zone is the monument of garden and park art - the park of the Catherine Institute ("Ekaterininsky Park"), occupying almost half of the entire territory of the park zone, which is comprehensively landscaped and additionally landscaped. The park has preserved its historical layout, consisting of straight alleys with diagonal intersections. The area of gardening occupies more than 10 hectares. The main age of the trees is from 30 to 70 years, there are also young plantings. Old-growth trees (more than 100 years old) form the basis of the park and occupy an area of 15%. The main species of trees: ash, American maple, lime, birch, ash, spruce, willow, lilac, elm. More than 20 thousand square meters occupy 3 historical ponds, there is a decorative bed of the Sinichka river. 5 playgrounds have been built. Arranged comfortable sofas-benches (about 300), stylized floor lamps and decorative lower suspension, 1.5 thousand square meters. m. Broken flower beds. This green massif is the central resting place for veterans of war and labor, residents of the residential area between the Garden Ring, Trifonovskaya and Novoslobodskaya streets and Mira Avenue.