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Maxim Gorky Central Park for Culture and Recreation ((ウクライナ語:Парк культури і відпочинку «Максим Горький»)) is a Kharkiv city park consisting of over 130 hectares of land. It is bounded in the southern corner by Vesnina Street in the east - Sumy Street to the north - the so-called elite private settlement construction, and in the west - Dynamo street corner and Novgorod. == History == The origin of the park was from the City governing council who "put forth a proposition to plant trees on 20-40,000 square metres on both sides of the Sumskoy road"〔Newspaper “Yuzhniy Kray" 1893〕 The idea was that the area would be used for horse riding in a similar manner to the Boulogne Forest. Teachers, university students, and school students all assisted voluntarily with the tree planting. Each tree had a plaque planted next to it showing who had planted it. In 1899 in honour of the 100th birthday of Alexander Pushkin the size of the park was doubled. In 1932 the park was increased again in size to its ultimate size of 130 hectares. It was in 1938 that the park was given its name of ''Maxim Gorky Central Park for Culture and Recreation'', two years after the death of influential Russian and Soviet writer Maxim Gorky. In 1940 the first Children's railway, 3.6 km long, was opened in the park. During the Second World War all the facilities in the park were ruined and thousands of trees were felled, including the city's only cedar grove. On the cessation of hostilities the Kharkiv community immediately set about rebuilding the park. In the 1950s and 1960s 1.2 million people per year would visit the park. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Park of Maxim Gorky」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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