City Garden (Mound)

The city garden occupies several blocks between the streets of Karl Marx , Gogol , Lenin and Volodarsky . The City Garden has two architecturally designed entrances - Yuzhny (from Karl Marx Street) and Vostochny (from Lenin Street).

The composition of the City Garden includes:

• Festival Square (in the northern part, between the building of the Government of the Kurgan Region and the Kurgan State Drama Theater )
• Square of the Decembrists (in the northern part, between the building of the Government of the Kurgan region and the Cathedral of the Holy Prince Alexander Nevsky )
• Chess Square (in the western part, between the Cathedral of the Holy Prince Alexander Nevsky and Volodarsky Street)
• Happiness Square (in the central part, next to the alley in honor of the 65th anniversary of Ingosstrakh IJSC.

On the map of urban planning zoning, the territory of the city garden is included in the boundaries of the archeological monument, which is called the "Cultural layer of the city of Kurgan of the 17th-19th centuries" ^[1] .

History

In place of the current City Garden, the first city-wide cemetery in Kurgan was laid down in 1786 when designing the first plan for regular development. In 1860 , it was decided to close the cemetery, which turned out to be in the ring of dense urban development, and to establish the City Garden in its place, however, having built a cemetery church.

In the western part of the City Garden, Horse Square was located. In July 1895, the Kurgan City Duma decided to choose a place for the construction of the Alexander Nevsky Church on Konnaya Square, in the middle, on the back side of the cemetery fence, so that the altar would go out to the cemetery, and the church building should go to the square. Horse Square was called Alexander Square. In 1919 it was renamed Uritsky Square. Victims of the counter-revolution of the time of the White Bohemian coup of 1918 , the Kolchak government and the kulak uprising of 1921 are buried in mass graves in the square. In early April 1921, at the insistence of the city communal authorities, the burial in the mass grave “due to its overflow” and “insecurity in the sense of protecting residents from epidemiological diseases” were stopped. On November 7, 1921, an obelisk was opened on the mass grave, constructed according to the design presented by the 206th regiment.

In June 1924, the Kurgan City Council decided to organize a central garden park near mass graves, combining kindergartens: the former Gogolev School, the Moscow Society of Agriculture and the Alexander Cemetery. In 1930, the obelisk was transferred to the main alley of the city garden. Subsequently, an amusement carousel was arranged on genuine graves ^[2] (they stopped working in the 1990s and were dismantled).

In Soviet times, the City Garden was named after V.I. Lenin .

In the pre-war period, the newspaper “Krasny Kurgan” published special coupons for visiting performances held in the summer theater of the city council. At the same time, they played the role of a newspaper poster, they were indicated the name of the play, the genre of presentation, its beginning, and the general program of the evening (dancing, mass walks). And also in each issue it was reported that a brass band plays in the city garden in the evenings ^[3] .

Since May 1, 1959, the Rodina summer cinema (designed for 600 people) has been operating in the city garden. Cinema was shown until the early 90's. The building burned down in a fire on May 26, 2001.

August 15, 1969, at the site of the actual burial of the commissioners, designed by sculptor S.A. Goloshchapov and architect G.A. Zakharov built a memorial complex in memory of the fallen for Soviet power.

In 2004, the design organization LLC AS developed a project for the reconstruction of the city garden. This project was agreed by the Town Planning Council (Minutes No. 2018 dated September 28, 2004) ^[4] .

The land plot on which the city garden is located was leased in April 2004. The lease expiration date is April 2053. The lessee is Kurgan-Park LLC. The rent amounted to 776.8 thousand rubles. Kurgan-Park LLC began the reconstruction of the city garden: a Ferris wheel and other attractions were installed. In September 2011, rents are reduced and amounts to 64 thousand rubles ^[5] .

• Alexander Nevsky Cathedral
• Diocesan Administration of the Kurgan and Belozersky Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church
• Monument to the Decembrists, opened August 25, 2012, artist T. Ivanova.
• Parents (sculptural composition), opened November 23, 2007, sculptor L. Laperdina.
• The memorial complex in memory of the fallen in the struggle for power of the Soviets was opened on August 15, 1969, by sculptor S. A. Goloshchapov and architect G. A. Zakharov
• The obelisk in memory of the fallen commissars in the struggle for power of the Soviets was opened on November 7, 1921, the project was presented by the 206th regiment.
• Cross in memory of the dead as a result of the Chernobyl disaster and other technological disasters
• Decorative building "Council yes love"
• Decorative structure “Bench of lovers”, opened August 22, 2013, author N.F. Kreichi.
• Decorative construction "Horseshoe"
• Stela "The Golden Ring"
• Romantic composition “Meeting place under the clock”
• 2 fountains (at the eastern entrance and at the cafe "Nostalgie")
• Indoor scene
• Entrance group from the street. Lenin with flower shops
• Entrance group from the street. K. Marx
• The platform for the launch of salutes
• Public toilet

On the territory of Gorsad are located:

• Palace of Youth Creativity (54 Gogol St.)
• The Government Building of the Kurgan Region and the Kurgan Regional Duma (56 Gogol St.)
• Kurgan Drama Theater (58 Gogol St.)
• Residential buildings on K. Marx St., 87 and Lenin, 21

Cafe

• Cafe Nostalgia
• Coffee House "Theater" (in the building of the Drama Theater , entrance from Lenin Street)

Attractions

Acting

• Trampolines
• Dash "For the Homeland"
• Train “Circus”
• Wedding Carousel "Horses"
• Pirates' ship
• Lightning Makvin "double wave"
• Children's play complex

Dismounted rides

• Water Balloon Pool (Dismantled in 2015)
• Shooting Range (Dismantled in 2015)
• Helicopters (Dismantled in 2015)
• Carousel (Dismantled in 2015)
• Children's railway "Assorted" (Dismantled in 2015)
• Angry Birds (Dismantled in 2014)
• Ferris Wheel (Dismantled in 2014)
• Swans (Dismantled in 2014)
• Mini Carousel (Dismantled in 2014)
• Funny traffic light (Dismantled in 2014)
• The Sun (Dismantled in 2014)
• Elephants (Dismantled in 2014)
• Tea Set (Dismantled in 2014)
• Mini train
• Emelya
• Kangaroo
• Waltz
• Bell
• Scarlet Sails (Jung)
• Surprise

Kurgan city, st. Lenin, 23

Travel by buses No. 75, 104, 304, 378 to the stop "Drama Theater" (Lenin St.).

By buses No. 7, 30, 31, 75, 301, 306, 308, 312, 329, 349, 391 to the stop "Cinema" Russia "."

Buried in a Cemetery

• Povalo-Shveikovsky, Ivan Semenovich (1787-1845) - Decembrist
• Voigt, Ivan Fedorovich (1794-1842) - Decembrist

Buried in Uritsky Square

• Argentovsky, Lavr Vasilievich (1891-1918) - commissar of the city police
• Argentovskaya, Natalya Vasilievna (1900-1918) - member of the revolutionary movement, sister of Lavra
• Grunt, Martin Petrovich (? —1918) - commissar of the Kurgan prison, member of the Kurgan district revolutionary tribunal
• Gubanov, Vladimir Vladimirovich (? —1918) - commissioner of labor, member of the Soviet of Deputies, military commissioner
• Zaitsev, Evgeny Leontyevich (? —1918) - Chairman of the Kurgan Council of Deputies
• Zyryanov, Grigory Mikhailovich (? —1918) - member of the investigative commission of the Kurgan district revolutionary tribunal
• Klimov, Alexander Pavlovich (1890-1918) - chairman of the first Bolshevik committee of the Kurgan party organization, member of the executive committee of the Soviet of Deputies, first military commissar of the city of Kurgan
• Kuchevasov, Philip Ivanovich (? —1918) - chairman of the commission of inquiry of the Kurgan district revolutionary tribunal
• Martynyuk, Alexander Evstafievich (? —1918) - secretary of the Kurgan district revolutionary tribunal
• Purits, Yan Yanovich (Ivan Yakovlevich) (? —1918) - the first editor of the Bolshevik workers and peasants newspaper "Izvestia of the Council of Workers, Soldiers and Peasants' Deputies" in the city of Kurgan
• Saveliev, Fedor Mitrofanovich (1899-1923) - assistant to the head of the Kurgan criminal investigation department at the department of workers and peasants militia
• Solodnikov, Sergey Alexandrovich (? —1918) - Secretary of the Kurgan Council of Deputies

Buried in the Crypt of Alexander Nevsky Cathedral

• Michael (Raskovalov) (1953-2008) - Bishop of Kurgan and Shadrinsky
• Smolin, Dmitry Ivanovich (1833-1898) - industrialist, honorary citizen of Kurgan
• Smolina, Elizaveta Fedorovna (1835-1908) - the widow of D.I. Smolin

• To the history of burial mounds. Committee for Archives Management of the Kurgan Region