Park Sosnovaya Polyana is located on the southwestern outskirts of St. Petersburg in the Krasnoselsky District ( Konstantinovsky District).
| Pine Glade | |
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 One of the alleys of the park in spring | |
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| Square | 60.93 ha |
| Status |  Object of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation of regional significance. Reg. No. 781620573130005 ( EGROKN ). (Wikigid database) |
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| A country |
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| City | St. Petersburg |
| A district of the city | Krasnoselsky district |
| Underground |  "Prospect Veterans" |
It is confined to the south by the Baltic branch of the Oktyabrskaya railway , from the east by Pilot's street, from the north by Veterans Avenue , and from the west by the Mitkazi (Sosnovka) river. Serves as a border of mass urban development .
History
Until the beginning of the 18th century , this place was predominantly coniferous forest, stretching to the south towards the Volkhonskoye Highway and to the west to the area of the Volodarskoye settlement.
At the end of the XVIII and XIX centuries. the park represented the whole landscape gardening ensemble with the Novo-Znamenka estate and started from the homestead hospital (modern Higher School of Militia). The Sosnovka River, bordering the park from the west at the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th centuries, was turned into a pond system.
In the north, there was a regular Vorontsov dacha manor park , and in the south, under A. L. Naryshkin , a landscape park was arranged in the English manner: straight diagonal paths were laid, elegant canals were dug, diagonal and curved paths were drawn.
Before World War II , Sosnovaya Polyana Park justified its name with a large number of coniferous trees, but during the war years it suffered greatly as a result of military operations (there were artillery batteries and parts of the second echelon of the German forces on its territory).
After the war, with the city setting to the western outskirts, Sosnovaya Polyana Park was divided into two parts by Veterans Avenue, and its northern part was built up with 5-9-storey residential buildings, and the territory of the estate hospital was occupied by a military-political school and the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs with a fence and barbed wire. As a result, the southern part of the park was cut off from the estate Novoznamenka. In the late 80s - 90s, the park was actually abandoned.
Modernity
At the beginning of the XXI century, the park was returned to its original historical layout, but from coniferous it turned into a deciduous-coniferous.
The park suffers greatly from holidaymakers (especially in the summer, when almost all of its territory turns into a picnic with kebabs and inevitable mountains of garbage).
Occasionally in the park competitions on orienteering .
In the 70s of the twentieth century, couples were going to cut down for mass construction, then the leadership of local schools, which organized living chains of students, stood up for it, so the park was saved