Lenin Park ( Esplanade Park ) is the central park of Vyborg . It extends from Market Square in the west to Suvorovsky Prospekt in the east (about 700 meters in length) and from Lenin Avenue in the north to Fortress Street in the south (about two hundred meters in width). Leningradsky Prospect divides the park into two parts.
| Park named after Lenin | |
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 Elk at Aalto Library | |
| basic information | |
| Type of | a park |
| Established | |
| Status |  Identified object of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation ( normative act ). (Wikigid database) |
| Location | |
| A country |
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| City | Vyborg |
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History
It was originally known as an esplanade city park, broken down on the site of the ramparts and moats of the Horned Fortress demolished in the middle of the 19th century. The park owes this circumstance to its unofficial name, since the word esplanade means the space in front of the fortress, freed from buildings, that is, the foreground . When breaking down the park, more than 200 species of trees were planted in it, including white willow, larch , Amur velvet .
The park restaurant was very popular. Originally the wooden building of the Belvedere restaurant and hotel was erected in 1868 according to the design of F. Odenvall . It burned down in 1887 and was replaced by the new Esplanade Pavilion restaurant (later Espilya ), built in 1890 by architect B. Blomkvist . Maxim Gorky mentions the restaurant in his work “The Life of Klim Samghin”. Estrada, built by B. Blomkvist near the restaurant in 1899, was destroyed during the Civil War in Finland , but was again built in 1935 during the reconstruction of the restaurant by the architect W. Ulberg .
After independence, Finland received the name Torkel Park (Fin. Torkkelinpuisto, in honor of Torkel Knutsson ). The park was replenished with sights: sculptures were installed - "Elk" by Jussi Mäntyunen , as well as "Forest Boy " (author Yuriyo Liipola) . According to the project of Alvar Aalto, the building of the city library was built. Near the restaurant and stage there was a playground with a small drinking fountain, depicting frogs.
After the transfer of Vyborg to the USSR as a result of the Soviet-Finnish war, the park was renamed in honor of V.I. Lenin and expanded due to the former park of the Cathedral, located between the building of the city library and the demolished ruins of the Lutheran Cathedral . At the place of the restaurant lost with the stage during the war, rides were placed. Instead of the lost fountain, a sculpture of a bear from the station building destroyed in wartime was installed on the playground. The green spaces of the Teatralnaya (former Parade, then Pionerskaya) Square near the Peter and Paul Cathedral , where the bear sculpture was moved in the 1960s, actually merged with the park. The new borders of the park are fixed in 2009 by the installation of a grill [1] . In the same year, the monument to Mikael Agricole was restored in the park (earlier in the park of the Finnish city of Lahti , copies of the sculpture of Elk and the monument to Mikael Agricole were installed; copies of these monuments are also available in other cities in Finland). Another attraction of the park - the building of the restaurant "Espilya" - was restored in 2016.
Fountains
There are three fountains (there are two - at the library of Alvar Aalto and on Theater Square). In the decoration of the restored [2] fountain near the Cathedral of Peter and Paul, a sculpture of a bear from the station building destroyed in wartime was used . [3] The fountain sculpture "Girl of Imatra" has been lost; the fountain is not functioning.
Photos
Monument to Michael Agricole
Forest young man
Peter and Paul Cathedral
City library outside the park
See also
- Esplanade in Helsinki