Moscow Victory Park in St. Petersburg
st. Petersburg, St. Kuznetsovskaya, 25
Description:
Moscow Victory Park was founded in 1945 in honor of the victory in the Great Patriotic War. At the time of its opening in 1946, its territory was one-seventh of the current one. The planting of trees was carried out by ordinary residents who participated in subbotniks.
Previously, on the site of the park was a brick and pumice factory, which during the siege of Leningrad was used as a crematorium. And the numerous ponds connected by canals that can be seen today are nothing more than craters from shells and the quarry of a brick factory.
The central alley, on which there are monuments to Heroes of the Soviet Union, is the border between the regular and landscape parts of the park.
The park also houses a monument to the Rotunda and an Orthodox memorial cross with a commemorative plaque, and in 2001 a trolley of a brick and pumice factory was installed, raised from the bottom of one of the ponds, and used during the war.
To the sixtieth anniversary of the lifting of the blockade, a memorial Alley of Memory was created in memory of the dead Leningraders, and in 2010 a Christian memorial chapel was built on the site of the plant.
