Melitopol City Park of Culture and Rest named after M. Gorky - the main park of Melitopol , a monument of landscape gardening. It is interesting for the variety of trees growing in it, numerous attractions and the "Fairy Tales". It plays an important role in the cultural life of the city.
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Location
The park is limited by Bogdan Khmelnitsky Avenue, Heroes of Ukraine Square, Ivan Alekseev Street and a residential area along Schmidt Street. In the eastern part of the park is the Melitopol Regional Hospital, in the southwestern part - the Spartak Stadium named after Oleg Oleksenko , in the northwestern part - Melitopol Gymnasium No. 10 .
History
Foundation of the park
In the 1920s, in Melitopol there was already a city garden near the Milk River , operating since pre-revolutionary times, however, the recreation area for the numerically grown city became insufficient. The chief forester of the Staroberdyansk forestry Ivan Alekseev drafted a new city park. The implementation of the project began in 1926, when the city was visited by the first secretary of the Dnipropetrovsk regional committee Mendel Khataevich (at that time Melitopol was part of the Dnipropetrovsk region ).
| At 10:00 p.m., the heads of all enterprises of the city were called into the building of the city party committee (the current museum building on M. Grushevsky St. ) Khataevich ordered them to set a specific task: to create an amusement park on a vacant land, on empty land beyond the border Mezhevaya street . At 24:00, the heads of enterprises with the tasks received did not depart home, but to their jobs. At 8:00 the next day, construction and installation work was launched around the front.S. I. Benzik , director of the plant named after Mikoyan |
All work was directed by Ivan Alekseev . The wasteland was dug up manually. At first, the area of the park under construction was 3.5 ha, then it was increased to 7 ha [1] . Water was brought from a large pond of the city garden and from the hospital in wooden barrels, since there was no water supply in the city. The seedlings provided by Ivan Alekseev were transported from the Berdyansk forestry on a tractor with two trailers.
The park was opened six months after the start of work, in 1927. Initially, he was named after M. M. Khataevich [2] .
Park during the pre-war and war period
In the 1930s, the park was fenced around the perimeter by a forged fence on a brick foundation. According to the memoirs of the city’s old-timers, this fence belonged to the former stone cathedral of Alexander Nevsky on Bazarnaya Square . Crosses were cut out of the forged fence, and the city park was enclosed with bars. The main entrance was on Megeve Street. Before him were steps. The entrance consisted of three arched gates of red brick, much higher than the fence, and several passages with ticket offices. The ticket cost was 15 kopecks. The park was open on Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays, and the rest of the week was sanitary. The park closed at 11 pm [2] .
At the central fountain at exactly six
We will hear this good news.
Our tango is about spring and love
What the nightingales once composed!
(V. Kuleshov) [3]
Each enterprise of the city patronized a certain section of the park [2] .
In 1933, a summer stage, a playground and a shooting range were built in the park [2] [4] .
By 1934, the park expanded to 27 hectares.
In 1936, construction began on the stadium and fountain [5] . . At the same time, a 48-meter parachute tower was installed [2] .
In 1937, the Melitopol Children's Railway named after Lazar Kaganovich was opened in the park. It had a steam locomotive, a train of six cars, two stations (Pionerskaya and Pavlik Morozov) and a depot . Today, only the building of gymnasium No. 10 , located in the former building of the Pionerskaya station, recalls the children's railway destroyed in the war years.
In 1939, a school playground was opened in the park [6] .
During the Great Patriotic War, the Melitopol Park more than once turned into a battlefield, which is why the park’s structures and the green massif were badly damaged [1] .
Post-war park
After the war, the park was restored.
On February 2, 1951, the construction project in the Kaganovich Park (the old name of the park) of the stadium DSO "Spartak" for 4000 seats was approved [7] .
In 1954, the city executive committee decided to open a summer cinema in the park on the basis of the summer theater, which "is used no more than 8-10 days a month for events" [6] .
In 1960, on the basis of the Decree of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR, the park was approved as a historical park-monument of landscape gardening architecture [8] .
In the 1960s and 1970s, a large range of works on improving the park was carried out under the direction of director M.V. Osyanin [9] .
January 29, 1966 the park was declared a monument of landscape architecture [10] .
In 1968, by the decision of the City Executive Committee, the Melitopol Canteen Trust allowed the installation of the Levada cafe in the park next to the existing restaurant [11] .
In 2005 and 2006, the Melitopol PKiO them. Gorky was one of the 8 parks in Ukraine, which for the achievement of outstanding success in their work were awarded the honorary award "Golden Tree" [1] .
In 2008, a “Maintenance and Reconstruction Project” was developed and approved for the park.
Flora
About 50 species of trees and about 30 species of shrubs grow in the park. Of the trees, this is ordinary oak , robinia is pseudoacacia and its spherical shape, Japanese sophora , highest ylant, gladia tricuscleifolia, heart-shaped linden , horse chestnut ordinary , various types of maple , birch , poplar , pine ; of the bushes - tree-like caragana , privet ordinary, Cossack juniper , common mock -up, various forms of lilac . Some trees are around 80 years old. Of the exotics, there are yew berry, orange maclura, European cercis (Judas tree), forsythia drooping [1]
Fauna
35–38 bird species nest in the park [12] .
Attractions and rides
The park has a Ferris Wheel , Funky Slides, Chamomile, Boats, Sun, playgrounds, shooting gallery, and slot machines. Billiard and tennis tables, board games are available for rent. The Fun Express runs in the park [13] .
In the center of the park is the "Glade of Fairy Tales", which contains wooden sculptures on fairy tales, created by Melitopol masters.
The park has a summer stage, a zovernissage, a museum of the history of the park, dance floors, and cafes. The park is a traditional venue for children's parties, performances by Melitopol bards , and chess lovers' meetings.
Gallery
| central alley | monument to Gorky | park entrance from the avenue | bust of Taras Shevchenko | repainted letters at the entrance to the park from the side of the avenue |
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 City Park of Culture and Rest named after M. Gorky . “Melitopol Vedomosti” (2007). Archived on October 21, 2007.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Kharitonova E. L. Our youth park ... Book one . - Melitopol: Melitopol, 2007 .-- 146 p.
- ↑ Memoirs of S.P. Myachin about Gorky Park in the 1930s
- ↑ Boris Mikhailov , “Melitopol: nature, archeology, history”, chapter “Socio-cultural construction. Repression of the 30s
- ↑ Ilyichev A.I., Savina T.P. Living Cloud of the Fountain // Melitopol Local History Journal, 2017, No. 9, p. 73-76
- ↑ 1 2 Krylov N. V., Krylova A. N. - “History of Melitopol in dates: 2014. Calendar and brief references ”- Melitopol,“ Melitopol ”, 2013.
- ↑ Krylov N.V., Krylova A.N. - “History of Melitopol in dates: 2016. Calendar and brief references ”- Melitopol,“ Melitopol ”, 2015.
- ↑ Krylov N.V., Krylova A.N. - “History of Melitopol in dates: 2015. Calendar and brief references ”- Melitopol,“ Melitopol ”, 2014.
- ↑ "The Man Who Revived the Park" , an article in the Melitopol Vedomosti.
- ↑ Boris Mikhailov , “Melitopol: nature, archeology, history”, chapter “Education, medicine, culture, sport” .
- ↑ Calendar of Memorable Dates Archived copy of February 13, 2015 on the Wayback Machine on the site of the Local Lore of the Melitopol Region
- ↑ Dyadicheva E.A., Kinda V.V. Nesting birds of the Melitopol Park of Culture and Rest named after M. Gorky // Melitopol Local History Journal, 2013, No. 1, p. 79-87.
- ↑ "Melitopol. Fun in the park to them. Gorky has risen in price " , in the Melitopol Vedomosti.
Links
- N.V. Krylov, A.N. Krylova. The history of the park in dates // "Melitopol Local History Journal". - 2016. - No. 7 . - S. 57–61 .
- K. L. Kharitonova. Our youth park ... Book one. - Melitopol: Publishing house Melitopol, 2007. - P. 146.
- “The Park Gathers Friends” , a film about Gorky Park, TRC “Melitopol”, 2012.
- “The Mystery of the privatization of the summer theater” , an article in the “Melitopol Vedomosti”.
- “Park yesterday and today. And tomorrow? ” , An article in the“ Melitopol Vedomosti ”.
- "The official website of the city park of the city of Melitopol"
- In the Melitopol park, the rides are sawn into chermet
- Melitopol Tom Sawyer has gathered 1000 friends