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In 1932 the park was named after M. A. Gorky. The idea of a need for a central park of culture and leisure in Moscow arose in the late 1920s in relation to Moscow's reconstruction with notions of a socialist "city of the future". The park was named after the writer and political activist Maxim Gorky. [5]
- Occupies almost 220 hectares on the bank of Moskva River. Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leisure – that’s what this public space is officially called, with people simply calling it ‘Gorky Park’.
- Began its history before the revolution. The history of Gorky Park began from Neskuchny Sad. In the 18th century, the country estates of noble Russian families were located there, along the right bank of the Moskva River – the Golitsyns, the Orlovs and the Trubetskoys.
- A ‘shop front’ for Soviet authorities. After the revolution, Neskuchny Sad was nationalized and opened for visitors. In 1923, it hosted the first large agriculture and craftsmanship exhibition, long before a separate park was built for it, presently known as VDNKh.
- Designed not just for leisure but also for culture. On August 12, 1928, one of the first Soviet parks of culture and leisure was opened here. Cafes, dance and fitness grounds, hammocks – all the conditions for leisure were created for the working masses.
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Aug 27, 2013 · The park is named for Maxim Gorky, the Bolshevik writer and political activist who died in 1936.
Aug 2, 2022 · The official name of the park is Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leisure, though it is usually briefly known as Gorky Park. The park is named after the Soviet writer Maxim Gorky , founder of the literary movement of socialist realism and nominated five times for the Nobel Prize for Literature.
After Gorky's return to the Soviet Union, the novel was declared by authorities as "the first work of Socialist realism", and Gorky as its "founder". Nevertheless, Gorky himself was highly critical of Mother , saying that it was "an unsuccessful thing, not only in its external appearance, because it is long, boring and carelessly written, but ...
The Central Park of Rest and Culture Named After M. Gorky, to give it its full name, is one of the most famous places in Moscow (thanks presumably to Martin Cruz Smith's grizzly tale of a psychopathic professor, and the Hollywood film it inspired - shot mostly in Stockholm).
The park was not named after Maxim Gorky, writer and founder of Socialist Realism, until 1933. In 1929, Betty Glan – at the mere age of 26 – became director of the park. She decided to reconceptualise it, uniting leisure, design, and ideology with the help of Moscow’s most eminent architects, designers and artists.
