Recreation Park them. T.G. Shevchenko (from the 1790s until 1925 - the Potemkin Garden ) is the central and oldest park of the city of Dnepr . Address: pl. Shevchenko, 1.
One of the two main landscape gardening complexes of Yekaterinoslav-Dnepropetrovsk-Dnepr (along with the Globa Park ). It has about 8,000 trees and more than 2,000 shrubs of 68 species.
The park area together with the Monastic Island is 36 hectares . It is divided into coastal and island parts.
- The coastal part : the Summer Theater (lecture hall constructed in 1977 by the project of architect P.R. Nirinberg ), the Potemkin Palace , now the Palace of Students of the DNU, several playgrounds, in particular tennis courts. The bust of V.P. Karuna was installed. There is a monument "Grieving" [1] . There is also a sculpture group "Deer" and a metal lion. There was a sculpture of Stalin [2] [3] .
- Monastic Island (formerly Komsomolsky ). A pedestrian bridge and a rope-way (from Dmitriy Dontsov str.) Are spread over the island. The island has a zoo, a freshwater aquarium, attractions, several water sports clubs and bases where you can rent a boat. Beaches are located in the lower part of the island.
History
It was founded at the end of the 18th century on the site of a wintering place of Zaporizhia-based Esaula Lazar Globa, who had an extensive orchard.
In the 1790s the palace and park ensemble of the residence of G. A. Potemkin - the Potemkin Palace , now the Palace of Students of the DNU (architect I. Ye. Starov ), an English park - landscape designer V. Guld (an Englishman by origin) was created on the site of the garden and the adjacent free territories of the hill.
In the second half of the XIX - early XX centuries. The park served as one of the main places of recreation for Yekaterinoslav.
As a result of the reconstruction of 1925 - mid 1930s. turned into "Shevchenko Culture and Recreation Park".
In 1957, the Monastery Island was joined to the park.
The last major reconstruction of the park was made in 1971-1974.
In 1974, at the Exhibition of Economic Achievements , among 63 parks of the USSR, he received the title of the best and a diploma of the first degree.
Separate landscaping works were carried out in 2005–2006 [4] .
Since 1990, the park is a monument of landscape art of national importance.