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PARKS File Created: 28-Jan-03
See also: GARDENS AND PUBLIC SQUARES
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St. Petersburg has a variety of parks for a Sunday afternoon excursion, especially for children. Some have recreation halls and sports fields, tennis courts, cafes, restaurants, bandshells, playgrounds, an amusement park with rides for children, pavilions with pastimes such as slot machines, electronic games, billiards, reading rooms, and even boating, skating and x-country ski rentals in winter, as well as paths and gardens. They are a favorite place for picnics.

Forest-parks called "Lesoparki" are just that, forests with trails for walking, x-country skiing and horseback riding, e.g., Sosnovka Lesopark.

Promenade parks are for walking and may have ponds with bridges, and a variety of trees and gardens,e.g., Tavricheskiy Sad.

Historical parks are usually located at beautiful sites such as old estates with beautiful old gardens, "landscape-parks", buildings, ponds, pavilions, etc., e.g., Summer Garden.

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These parks have many of the facilities mentioned at the beginning of this category

Park kultury I otdykha imeni I.V.Babushkina
Babushkina Park PKiO
Beautiful 14 ha park in industrial area with sports complex, lawn tennis, horseback riding, photographers, cafe & children's amusement park, winter skating.
Obukhovskoy Oborony prosp.,149........ 560-01-57
Daily 6-23; M. Lomonosovskaya

Central Park KiO, see Tsentralnyy park kultury I otdykha

Letniy Sad, Summer Garden and Palace of Peter I, see GARDENS

Moskovskiy Park Pobedy
Moscow Victory Park
Laid out in 1945. This 68 ha. park with beautiful lakes & walking paths commemorates the victory over Nazism. Boating, children's amusement park, winter skating & X-country skiing. The Sports and Concert Complex (SKK) is located south of city center next to the park. Convenient to Metro.
Kuznetsovskaya ul., 25........ 298-08-81
Daily 8-21; M. Park Pobedy

Primorskiy Park Pobedy
Coastal Victory Park
Laid out in 1945 to commemorate War II. This beautiful park has 160 ha. of English & French style alleys, open meadows, ponds, boat rentals, cafe. Its large Kirov Stadium on the Gulf of Finland is the site of football matches.
Krestovskiy prosp., 21....... 230-04-55
Daily 8-21; M. Petrogradskaya; Bus 71,T-bus 9; B-C-D-3-4 (B-C-1-2)

Tavricheskiy Sad, see GARDENS

Tikhiy Otdykh
Peaceful Rest
This quiet 18 c park with broad alleys & walking paths is site of Kamennoostrovskiy Palace & many beautiful dachas, now used as "recreation health spa", similar to a German "kurort".
Kamennoostrovskiy prosp., 77....... 234-91-62
Tram 28 or M. Petrogradskaya, then 15 min. by foot on Kamennoostrovskiy Prospekt or M. Chernaya Rechka
E-F-3 (D- E-10)

Tsentralnyy park kultury i otdykha
Central Park of Culture and Rest (TsPKiO)
Laid out on Elagin island in 1931. A very large park NW of city center on Petrogradskaya Storona with walking paths, lakes, catamaran rentals, tennis & badmin-ton courts, summer concert theater (1600), cafes, disco-, & children's amusement rides. Skating & X-country skiing in winter. A favorite place to relax in the summer.
Elagin Ostrov, 4........ 239-09-11
Daily 0-24; Eng, Fr, It; M. ChernayaRechka, Tram 2, 31C-D-E-3 (B-C-D-10)

Yuzhno-Primorskiy Park
South Coastal Park
Created in 1960-70, 50 ha. in French & English land-scape style with cafe, walking paths, fishing, children's amusements. Southwest St. Pbg. on Gulf of Finland.
Petergofskoe shosse, 27........ 151-52-85
M. Leninskiy Prospekt, Bus 83, 111, 142; T-Bus 35, 45

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Children's Parks, called Detskiy Park (denoted by DP) often have educational programs in art, natural history as well as playgrounds and children's amusements such as merry-go-rounds.
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Sosnovka
Pine Forest
Large forest park north of St. Petersburg with 310 ha. of pines, birches & oaks (and mushrooms), with walking paths, summer theater, tennis courts, X-country skiing. Peaceful! Open all the time.
Manchesterskaya ul., 18
M. Politekhnicheskaya
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This edition has five separate sections for the following beautiful palace parks and the surrounding towns.

Lomonosov Park-Museum

Pavlovsk Park-Museum

Petrodvorets Park-Museum

Pushkin Park-Museum

Gatchina Park-Museum