1 An aerial view of Gorky Park in 1979 ... 2 The park was a major center of "leisure and culture" during the Soviet era. 7 Although the park and its attractions remained popular with Muscovites ...

Gorky Park was where poor Muscovites would take ... to squeeze the public out of as much space as possible, kicking Soviet-era children's libraries and music schools and pensioners' clubs out ...

This year, I think we will do it in Gorky Park: today there is such a general ... who told this far-from-sweet story about Soviet-era ice cream: “My father, Vladimir Devingtal, was a dairy ...

Of all Russia's communist-era landmarks, arguably none carries more resonance than Gorky Park. After this imposing ... it quickly became synonymous with Soviet life, and was even regularly ...

It was the extreme sport of the era. These kind of competitions were often held on Feb. 23, which was Red Army Day in the Soviet Union, a national holiday. Gorky Park, 1930s. / Source: archive of ...

The park, named after the Soviet-era socialist realism novelist Maxim Gorky, first opened in 1928 when far fewer people visited the site than do today, and no plans were ever made for nearby ...

the Central House of Artists was built in the Soviet Union … and a landscaped park was formed next to it,” Elena Soboleva, head of the historical and cultural sector at Moscow’s Gorky Park ...

Imprinted in many Western minds by the Soviet-era crime novel and film of the same name, Gorky Park celebrates its 85th anniversary this month. It is not just a park in the leafy retreat sense ...