Mariinskyi Park

Coordinates: 50°26′49″N 30°32′23″E / 50.44694°N 30.53972°E / 50.44694; 30.53972
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Mariinskyi Park
Pechersk Raion
Nearest cityKyiv
Coordinates50°26′49″N 30°32′23″E / 50.44694°N 30.53972°E / 50.44694; 30.53972
Created1847
EtymologyMariinskyi Palace
StatusMonument of Garden Artistry
)
Information sign about the park

Mariinskyi Park (

Hrushevsky Street, and Park Road. The park is also a Soviet necropolis. The park is recognized as part of the Nature Preservation Fund of Ukraine, yet its official listing is not known.[1]

Mariinskyi park

Entrance to the park

The park is around 130 years old. It received its name from the nearby Mariinskyi Palace. Mariinskyi Park was founded in 1874 near central entrance of the Palace and the money for its foundation were budgeted by the wife of the Alexander II of Russia Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse). The appearance of the park changed a lot since that time. For example, at the end of the 19th-century marble busts and sculptures were erected along the alley. In 1900 cast iron fountain was established and it is still there.

At first, the park was called "Tsarskyi" (imperial), but after the revolution this name was inappropriate and it was changed into Mariinskyi. But the park had other names as well. In different periods of its history, it was called Park of the victims of the revolution, Proletarian park and Soviet park. In the 1970s – 1980s children's railway was functioning in the park. The last great reconstruction of Mariinskyi park took place in 2000.

Location

Fountain in Mariinskyi park

Park is located in the

Constitution Square). The Constitution Square is rather elongated and serves as the park's northwestern border. It runs perpendicular to vulytsia Mykhaila Hrushevskoho (Hrushevsky Street) which is the park's southwestern border. To the southeast the park is cut off by vulytsia Merezhka (Merezhko Street) and row of residential multi-story buildings. On the northeast side of the park towards Dnieper
's shores runs Parkova doroha (Park Road).

Within the Mariinskyi Park is located a complex of government administration buildings that belongs to the

Ministry of Health Care. To the north from the park along the Park Road are located building of a former hospital for chronically sick children and a big heliport
.

Buildings

  • administrative buildings of Ministry of Healthcare
  • Church of Alexander Nevsky (not preserved)

Monuments

  • Heroes of October Revolution
  • Participants of January Uprising
  • Headstone at Andriy Ivanov's grave
  • Blossomed chestnuts monument

Former monuments

Graves

According to the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory the exact location of the burials of the Bolsheviks and their "victims" is unknown.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Nature Preservation Fund of Ukraine official website". Nature Preservation Fund of Ukraine official website.
  2. ^ (in Ukrainian) Minkult allowed the dismantling of monuments to Chkalov and Vatutin in Kyiv: the first is already being demolished, Ukrainska Pravda (8 February 2023)
  3. ^ a b (in Ukrainian) Mariinsky Park without Vatutin. The monument to the Soviet general was finally demolished, Ukrainska Pravda – Zhyttia (9 February 2023)
  4. ^
    Ukrayinska Pravda
    (18 August 2021)
  5. Mirror Weekly
    . October 10, 2003

External links

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