The city has finished improving two new territories with trees and shrubs. People can now visit
the upgraded Yunosti Square in Zelenograd and the new Akademichesky Park near the
Endocrinology Research Centre in southwestern Moscow.
“Prior to improvement, Yunosti Square, Zelenograd’s first and main square, was quite
dilapidated. Earlier, it seated a chaotic parking area, the round fountain in the centre of the
square had disintegrated almost completely, and the road surface also left a lot to be
desired,” sources at the city’s Department for Major Housing Repairs noted. “Garages,
outbuildings and a parking lot for street-cleaning equipment were located in what is now
Akademichesky Park,” they added.
According to the department’s officials, the improved Yunosti Square and Akademichesky
Park will become new popular attractions. Sport facilities and playgrounds, promenades,
benches and street lamps have already been installed there. And the city is set to plant trees
there in late autumn.
Artificial hills, dinosaurs and a 16.5-hectare sport cluster
The 16.5-hectare Akademichesky Park, completed in southwestern Moscow, is located
between the Fersmana and Dmitriya Ulyanova streets and 60-Letiya Oktyabrya Prospekt and
not far from the Endocrinology Research Centre. This new area with trees and shrubs has
replaced a deserted lot formerly occupied by outdated facilities belonging to the Zhilishnik
housing maintenance agency. Several entrances line the park’s perimetre. From now on,
residents of nearby blocks of flats can cut through the park and reach local shops, a
kindergarten and a school or the Endocrinology Research Centre.
The park’s territory had an elevation of two-three metres. Builders underscored the park’s
unique terrain by installing stairways and ramps. This engineering solution divides the park
into an upper and lower section. Artificial hills up to three metres high are located among
trees and shrubs. Visitors can use footpaths covered with granite pavers that snake between
the hills. In the evenings, the hills and footpaths are illuminated by street lamps and
landscape lighting. The park’s main square with a semi-round pergola (awning) is highly
popular with visitors. Eleven other pergolas decorate the entire park, and walk-through
gazebos with benches line its footpaths.
The park has a sport and game cluster with an area of almost 3,000 square metres for
energetic visitors. This cluster features a football field with grandstands, a basketball court, a
street workout zone and a specially coated running track. The park also has three sport
facilities, including one for exercise therapy. And there are also six playgrounds here. One of
them features 3D models of chemical elements, including oxygen, uranium and lithium. Three
large extinct animals ‒ the herbivorous Olorotitan duckbilled dinosaur, Elasmotherium, the
Giant Rhinoceros of Siberia, and the carnivorous Eotitanosuchus (Ivantosaurus or "dawn
giant crocodile”), a genus of biarmosuchian therapsid ‒ greet visitors at the main entrance.
Incidentally, the State Darwin Museum is located not far from here. After romping in the park,
children can visit the museum and learn more about dinosaurs.
Source: mos.ru