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CountryRussia Russia LocationNizhny Novgorod Nizhny Novgorod DistrictNizhny Novgorod Historic DistrictNew Construction Date of foundation(like a cemetery), (like a park)

MetroGorkovskaya Square24 hectares

At the Peter and Paul Cemetery (then one of the two cemeteries in the city, not counting the surviving graveyards near the parish churches) in late XVIII- early 20th century a significant part of the population was buried Nizhny Novgorod, including public figures, merchants, writers.

Burials continued until 1918. The cemetery was closed, all graves and family crypts were torn down and (according to some sources) looted, and tombstones were broken and taken away. B - a park was built on the territory of the cemetery. The graves of I.P. Kulibin and Akulina Ivanovna Peshkova, the grandmother of M. Gorky, have been preserved.

By the 1960s, the territory of the park was completely improved: a number of park pavilions and attractions were erected, a monument to Gorky was erected, and a memorial sign was erected at the supposed site of the grave of M. Gorky’s grandmother. The Church of Peter and Paul housed the Pioneer cinema and then a discotheque. In 1963, the Sputnik cinema building was built.

Architecture

On the territory of the park there are:

All Saints Peter and Paul Church ()
children's playground
in the rebuilt building of the Sputnik cinema (-) are located entertainment center, cafe, night club
chess pavilion

Monuments

Tombstone at the grave of I.P. Kulibin ()
A monument with a high relief of Kulibin next to his grave, sculptor P. I. Gusev, was erected in 1985 (at the entrance to the Peter and Paul Church).
Bust of Kulibin - the work of sculptor A.V. Kikin in the early 1980s (at the entrance to the park from Maxim Gorky Street near the Youth Theater).
A stele with a bas-relief (sculptor L.F. Kulakova) at the supposed site of the grave of Maxim Gorky’s grandmother Akulina Ivanovna Kashirina (in the center of the park behind the altar of the Peter and Paul Church).
Chapel in memory of Nizhny Novgorod residents who died in the First World War (2014). In its place until 2012 there was a monument to Maxim Gorky, sculptor A.V. Kikin, early 1940s.

List of those buried at the Peter and Paul Cemetery

Ivan Petrovich Kulibin (April 10 (April 21), lyrics Podnovye Nizhny Novgorod. u. - July 30 (August 11), Nizhny Novgorod) - self-taught mechanic, grave preserved
Fyodor Petrovich Perepletchikov (1779-1845) - head of Nizhny Novgorod in 1816-1819, 1825-1828 and 1834-1837
Akulina Ivanovna Kashirina - grandmother of M. Gorky, the heroine of his story “Childhood”
Leonid Grigorievich Grave (, Ryazan -, Nizhny Novgorod) - Russian poet and translator
A. I. Volkov (?-1900) - merchant and public figure
I. A. Afanasyev (?-1901) - merchant and public figure
According to some information, in the part farthest from the church in the 1910s (“Stolypin reaction”), participants of the revolutionary movement executed in the Nizhny Novgorod prison were buried, and there are also mass graves of those who died in the First world war and the graves of those killed during the typhus epidemic in 1917-1920.

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Whether they were playing ring, string or ruble, or talking, as now, Nikolai did not leave Sonya and looked at her with completely new eyes. It seemed to him that today, only for the first time, thanks to that corky mustache, he fully recognized her. Sonya really was cheerful, lively and beautiful that evening, like Nikolai had never seen her before.
“So that’s what she is, and I’m a fool!” he thought, looking at her sparkling eyes and her happy, enthusiastic smile, making dimples on her cheeks from under her mustache, a smile that he had never seen before.
“I’m not afraid of anything,” said Sonya. - Can I do it now? - She stood up. They told Sonya where the barn was, how she could stand silently and listen, and they gave her a fur coat. She threw it over her head and looked at Nikolai.
“What a beauty this girl is!” he thought. “And what have I been thinking about so far!”
Sonya went out into the corridor to go to the barn. Nikolai hurriedly went to the front porch, saying that he was hot. Indeed, the house was stuffy from the crowded people.
It was the same motionless cold outside, the same month, only it was even lighter. The light was so strong and there were so many stars on the snow that I didn’t want to look at the sky, and the real stars were invisible. In the sky it was black and boring, on earth it was fun.
“I’m a fool, a fool! What have you been waiting for so far? thought Nikolai and, running onto the porch, he walked around the corner of the house along the path that led to the back porch. He knew that Sonya would come here. Halfway along the road there were stacked fathoms of firewood, there was snow on them, and a shadow fell from them; through them and from their sides, intertwining, the shadows of old bare linden trees fell onto the snow and the path. The path led to the barn. A chopped barn wall and a roof covered with snow, as if carved from some kind of gemstone, sparkled in the monthly light. A tree cracked in the garden, and again everything was completely silent. The chest seemed to breathe not air, but some kind of eternally youthful strength and joy.
Feet clattered on the steps from the maiden porch, there was a loud creaking sound on the last one, which was covered with snow, and the voice of an old girl said:
- Straight, straight, along the path, young lady. Just don't look back.
“I’m not afraid,” answered Sonya’s voice, and Sonya’s legs squealed and whistled in her thin shoes along the path towards Nikolai.
Sonya walked wrapped in a fur coat. She was already two steps away when she saw him; She also saw him not as she knew him and as she had always been a little afraid. He was in a woman's dress with tangled hair and a happy and new smile for Sonya. Sonya quickly ran up to him.
“Completely different, and still the same,” thought Nikolai, looking at her face, all illuminated by moonlight. He put his hands under the fur coat that covered her head, hugged her, pressed her to him and kissed her on the lips, above which there was a mustache and from which there was a smell of burnt cork. Sonya kissed him in the very center of his lips and, extending her small hands, took his cheeks on both sides.
“Sonya!... Nicolas!...” they just said. They ran to the barn and returned each from their own porch.

When everyone drove back from Pelageya Danilovna, Natasha, who always saw and noticed everything, arranged the accommodation in such a way that Luiza Ivanovna and she sat in the sleigh with Dimmler, and Sonya sat with Nikolai and the girls.
Nikolai, no longer overtaking, rode smoothly on the way back, and still peering at Sonya in this strange moonlight, looking for in this ever-changing light, from under his eyebrows and mustache, that former and present Sonya, with whom he had decided never again to be separated. He peered, and when he recognized the same and the other and remembered, hearing that smell of cork mixed with the feeling of a kiss, he full breasts he breathed in the frosty air and, looking at the receding earth and the brilliant sky, he felt himself again in a magical kingdom.
- Sonya, are you okay? – he asked occasionally.
“Yes,” answered Sonya. - What about you?
In the middle of the road, Nikolai let the coachman hold the horses, ran up to Natasha’s sleigh for a moment and stood on the lead.
“Natasha,” he told her in a whisper in French, “you know, I’ve made up my mind about Sonya.”
-Did you tell her? – Natasha asked, suddenly beaming with joy.
- Oh, how strange you are with those mustaches and eyebrows, Natasha! Are you happy?
– I’m so glad, so glad! I was already angry with you. I didn't tell you, but you treated her badly. This is such a heart, Nicolas. I'm so glad! “I can be nasty, but I was ashamed to be the only happy one without Sonya,” Natasha continued. “Now I’m so glad, well, run to her.”
- No, wait, oh, how funny you are! - said Nikolai, still peering at her, and in his sister, too, finding something new, extraordinary and charmingly tender, which he had never seen in her before. - Natasha, something magical. A?
“Yes,” she answered, “you did great.”
“If I had seen her before as she is now,” thought Nikolai, “I would have asked long ago what to do and would have done whatever she ordered, and everything would have been fine.”
“So you’re happy, and I did good?”
- Oh, so good! I recently quarreled with my mother over this. Mom said she's catching you. How can you say this? I almost got into a fight with my mom. And I will never allow anyone to say or think anything bad about her, because there is only good in her.
- Is that good? - Nikolai said, once again looking for the expression on his sister’s face to find out if it was true, and, squeaking with his boots, he jumped off the slope and ran to his sleigh. The same happy, smiling Circassian, with a mustache and sparkling eyes, looking out from under a sable hood, was sitting there, and this Circassian was Sonya, and this Sonya was probably his future, happy and loving wife.
Arriving home and telling their mother about how they spent time with the Melyukovs, the young ladies went home. Having undressed, but without erasing their cork mustaches, they sat for a long time, talking about their happiness. They talked about how they would live married, how their husbands would be friends and how happy they would be.
On Natasha’s table there were mirrors that Dunyasha had prepared since the evening. - Just when will all this happen? I'm afraid I never... That would be too good! – Natasha said getting up and going to the mirrors.
“Sit down, Natasha, maybe you’ll see him,” said Sonya. Natasha lit the candles and sat down. “I see someone with a mustache,” said Natasha, who saw her face.
“Don’t laugh, young lady,” Dunyasha said.
With the help of Sonya and the maid, Natasha found the position of the mirror; her face took on a serious expression and she fell silent. She sat for a long time, looking at the row of receding candles in the mirrors, assuming (based on the stories she had heard) that she would see the coffin, that she would see him, Prince Andrei, in this last, merging, vague square. But no matter how ready she was to mistake the slightest spot for the image of a person or a coffin, she saw nothing. She began to blink frequently and moved away from the mirror.

Kulibina Park Peter and Paul Cemetery

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At the Peter and Paul Cemetery (then one of the two cemeteries in the city, not counting the surviving graveyards near the parish churches) at the end of the 18th - beginning of the 20th centuries. A significant part of the population of Nizhny Novgorod was buried, including public figures, merchants, and writers.

Architecture

On the territory of the park there are:

All Saints Peter and Paul Church ()
children's playground
in the rebuilt building of the Sputnik cinema (-) there is an entertainment center, a cafe, a night club
chess pavilion

Monuments

Tombstone at the grave of I.P. Kulibin ()
A monument with a high relief of Kulibin next to his grave, sculptor P. I. Gusev, was erected in 1985 (at the entrance to the Peter and Paul Church).
Bust of Kulibin - the work of sculptor A.V. Kikin in the early 1980s (at the entrance to the park from Maxim Gorky Street near the Youth Theater).
A stele with a bas-relief (sculptor L.F. Kulakova) at the supposed site of the grave of Maxim Gorky’s grandmother Akulina Ivanovna Kashirina (in the center of the park behind the altar of the Peter and Paul Church).
Chapel in memory of Nizhny Novgorod residents who died in the First World War (2014). In its place until 2012 there was a monument to Maxim Gorky, sculptor A.V. Kikin, early 1940s.

List of those buried at the Peter and Paul Cemetery

Ivan Petrovich Kulibin (April 10 (April 21), lyrics Podnovye Nizhny Novgorod. u. - July 30 (August 11), Nizhny Novgorod) - self-taught mechanic, grave preserved
Fyodor Petrovich Perepletchikov (1779-1845) - head of Nizhny Novgorod in 1816-1819, 1825-1828 and 1834-1837
Akulina Ivanovna Kashirina - grandmother of M. Gorky, the heroine of his story “Childhood”
Leonid Grigorievich Grave (, Ryazan -, Nizhny Novgorod) - Russian poet and translator
A. I. Volkov (?-1900) - merchant and public figure
I. A. Afanasyev (?-1901) - merchant and public figure
According to some information, in the part farthest from the church in the 1910s (“Stolypin reaction”), participants of the revolutionary movement executed in the Nizhny Novgorod prison were buried, and there are also mass graves of those killed in the First World War and the graves of those killed during the typhus epidemic in 1917- 1920s

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We were again greeted by the same gloomy, ominous landscape, which I almost didn’t pay attention to, since it, like everything else, after so many trips to the Lower Astral, had become almost familiar to us, as far as one could get used to such a thing in general. ..
We quickly looked around and immediately saw Maria...
The baby, hunched over, sat straight on the ground, completely drooping, not seeing or hearing anything around, and only affectionately stroked the shaggy, motionless body of the “departed” friend with her frozen palm, as if trying to wake him up... Severe, and bitter, completely not childish tears flowed in rivulets from her sad, extinct eyes, and, flashing with brilliant sparks, disappeared into the dry grass, watering it for a moment with clean, living rain... It seemed that this whole already quite cruel world had now become even more cruel for Maria colder and even stranger... She was left completely alone, so amazingly fragile in her deep sadness, and there was no one else to console her, or caress her, or even just protect her in a friendly way... And next to her, a huge , a motionless mound lay her best friend, her faithful Dean... She clung to his soft, furry back, unconsciously refusing to acknowledge his death. And she stubbornly did not want to leave him, as if knowing that even now, after death, he still loved her just as faithfully and also sincerely protected her... She really missed his warmth, his strong “furry” support, and that familiar, reliable, “their little world,” in which only the two of them lived... But Dean was silent, stubbornly not wanting to wake up... And some small, toothy creatures were scurrying around him, trying to grab at least a small piece of him hairy “flesh”... At the beginning, Maria still tried to drive them away with a stick, but, seeing that the attackers were not paying any attention to her, she gave up on everything... Here, just like on the “solid” Earth, there existed “ the law of the strong,” but when this strong one died, those who could not get him alive, now with pleasure tried to make up for lost time by “tasting” him energy body at least dead...
From this sad picture my heart ached sharply and there was a treacherous pinch in my eyes... I suddenly felt wildly sorry for this wonderful, brave girl... And I couldn’t even imagine how she, poor thing, could, completely alone, in this terrible, sinister world, stand up for yourself?!
Stella’s eyes also suddenly sparkled wetly – apparently, similar thoughts came to her.
- Forgive me, Maria, how did your Dean die? – I finally decided to ask.
The little girl raised her tear-stained face at us, in my opinion, not even understanding what they were asking her about. She was very far away... Perhaps where she was true friend was still alive, where she was not so lonely, where everything was clear and good... And the baby did not want to return here. Today's world was evil and dangerous, and she had no one else to rely on, and there was no one to protect her... Finally, taking a deep breath and heroically gathering her emotions into a fist, Maria told us sad story Dinya's death...
– I was with my mother, and my kind Dean, as always, was guarding us... And then suddenly he appeared from somewhere scary man. He was very bad. I wanted to run away from him wherever I could, but I just couldn’t understand why... He was just like us, even handsome, just very unpleasant. It smelled of horror and death. And he laughed all the time. And this laughter made my blood run cold... He wanted to take my mother with him, said that she would serve him... And my mother struggled, but he, of course, was much stronger... And then Dean tried to protect us, which he always managed to do before. Only the man was probably something special... He threw a strange orange “flame” at Dean, which could not be extinguished... And when, even while he was burning, Dean tried to protect us, the man killed him with blue lightning, which suddenly “blazed” from his hand. That's how my Dean died... And now I'm alone.
-Where is your mother? – Stella asked.
“Mom is still here,” the little girl was embarrassed. “She just gets angry very often... And now we have no protection.” Now we're all alone...
Stella and I looked at each other... It was felt that both of us were simultaneously visited by the same thought - Luminary!.. He was strong and kind. One could only hope that he would have a desire to help this unfortunate, lonely girl, and become her real protector at least until she returned to her “good and kind” world...
-Where is this terrible man now? Do you know where he went? – I asked impatiently. - And why didn’t he take your mother with him?
“I don’t know, he’ll probably come back.” I don't know where he went and I don't know who he is. But he is very, very angry... Why is he so angry, girls?
- Well, we will find out, I promise you. And now - would you like to see good man? He is here too, but, unlike that “scary” one, he is really very good. He can be your friend while you're here, if that's what you want, of course. His friends call him Luminary.
- Oh, what beautiful name! And good...
Maria little by little began to come to life, and when we invited her to meet a new friend, she, although not very confidently, nevertheless agreed. A cave already familiar to us appeared in front of us, and golden and warm sunlight flowed from it.
- Oh, look!.. This is the sun?!.. It’s just like the real thing!.. How did it get here? – stared dumbfounded at such an unusual creepy place beauty, baby.
“It is real,” Stella smiled. - We just created it. Come take a look!
Maria timidly slipped into the cave, and immediately, as we expected, an enthusiastic squeal was heard...
She jumped out completely stunned and, out of surprise, still could not put two words together, although her eyes, wide with complete delight, showed that she definitely had something to say... Stella affectionately hugged the girl by the shoulders and returned her back to the cave. .. which, to our great surprise, turned out to be empty...
- Well, where is mine? new friend? – Maria asked upset. “Didn’t you hope to find him here?”
Stella could not understand in any way what could happen that would force the Luminary to leave its “solar” abode?..
- Maybe something happened? – I asked a completely stupid question.
- Well, of course it happened! Otherwise he would never have left here.
- Or maybe that one was here too? angry man? – Maria asked in fear.
To be honest, the same thought flashed through my mind, but I didn’t have time to express it for the simple reason that, leading three kids behind him, the Shining One appeared... The kids were mortally frightened of something and, shaking like autumn leaves, timidly huddled to the Luminary, afraid to move even a step away from him. But children's curiosity soon clearly overpowered their fear, and, peeking out from behind the broad back of their protector, they looked at our unusual trio in surprise... As for us, we, having forgotten even to say hello, probably stared at the kids with even greater curiosity, trying to figure out where they could have come from in the “lower astral plane”, and what actually happened here...

What is Kulibina Park famous and remarkable for? Let's start with the fact that its location itself is amazing. It is located on the territory of the former Peter and Paul Cemetery, where prominent residents of Nizhny Novgorod were buried. To this day, the park has preserved a stele with a bas-relief at the supposed site of the grave of Gorky’s grandmother, Akulina Ivanovna Kashirina, a monument to Maxim Gorky and, of course, a tombstone at the supposed site of Kulibin’s grave and next to it is a monument with his high relief. The All Saints Peter and Paul Church, built at the end of the 18th century, has also been preserved. Therefore, this green island can be called our cultural heritage of regional significance.

The park is notable for another thing. He invariably, from year to year, gathers avid chess players and those who like to play a game of dominoes under the crowns of his linden trees. It’s unlikely that you can name another such haven for board game lovers in our city. mind games. In the evenings, walking along the alleys of the park, you can hear the characteristic sound of knuckles hitting wood. Follow the sound and you will come to shabby, half-rotten chess tables, crooked and miserable, but still ready to serve the players.

Kulibina Park is also called the “lungs” of the old city. On the territory of the park (24 hectares) centuries-old maples, birches, poplars, and lindens have been preserved. The townspeople are saved by the little oxygen they provide. After all, as we all know very well, the city center is a place where traffic jams constantly form, and the air there is poisoned with benzopyrene. Cars shifting from wheel to wheel in a traffic jam are forced to constantly re-gas on the spot, emitting many times more exhaust than is required for a quiet journey from point A to point B.

To combat eternal congestion, last November (finally!) the first metro station “Gorkovskaya” appeared in the upper part of the city, near Gorky Square. Also, an excellent interchange appeared on Lyadov Square, and Gorky Street was expanded from it to the Volgotransgaz building. Why not to the end? The reason is precisely in the Kulibinsky Park, which has the status of a specially protected natural area(T1), which means it is inviolable.

However, the street cannot be left like this, otherwise it turns out that expanding its upper part was a pointless undertaking. Just imagine - half the road has six lanes and sharply narrows to four lanes. It looks ridiculous. And this is the picture that opens from the windows of the Ibis hotel, where tourists and guests of the city from different regions and countries stay.

So, should we expand Gorky or leave everything as it is? Get rid of traffic jams or save the park? The question is ambiguous.

about the victims

Let's talk about victims. Continuing the expansion of Gorky Street all the way to Freedom Square will require cutting down 64 relict linden trees along the alley along the street from the park. Thus, due to the trees, the road will be expanded 5 meters into the park, which is 1% of its area. What are the consequences of such intervention? Firstly, the reduction of the green zone in Nizhny Novgorod is in itself a crime, because instead of the required 16 per person square meters There is only 4.2 square meters of green space per person in our city. The figure is catastrophically small. Moreover, it was installed back in Soviet times, when the city of Gorky did not know such a quantity of vehicles.

Secondly, as we know, not far from the Kulibinsky Park there was a prison, the prisoners of which died from anthrax, cholera and tuberculosis. It is possible that their burials are located on the site of the alley planned for cutting down. It is very dangerous to disturb this land.

Thirdly, a phytopathology analysis showed that the linden trees that were designated for uprooting are in excellent condition, despite their advanced age. Compensatory planting is unlikely to compensate for such a loss.

About compensatory landings

The project of the Department of Urban Development and Architecture assumes that, as compensation for the destroyed relic linden trees, a boulevard with landscaping will be organized on Gorky Street from the assignment of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to Kulibina Park. Its area will be 14,000 square meters. It is planned that 2,000 mature trees and shrubs will be planted in this area.

There is an opinion that such plantings have never served as a way out of the situation: either they will be completely forgotten, or the trees will not take root and will die, as happened on the Yesenin Boulevard or on the Kazanskoe Highway - at most 10% of the compensation plants took root.

Citizens' opinion

The famous Nizhny Novgorod resident, writer, and politician Zakhar Prilepin says this: “You can’t serve a nail, they’ll bite off your whole hand.” Not a single strip or a single tree should be allowed to be cut down in this green area. The park, in his opinion, is just a park because the trees are in a complex, and not scattered around the city here and there, so compensatory planting is not a solution. Kulibinsky Park is a place of recreation, with which he personally, as well as many other Nizhny Novgorod residents, has many dear memories associated with his heart.

A resident of house No. 7 Granitny Lane, on the contrary, hopes for the speedy felling of a percentage of the park. Teacher primary classes first category, pensioner Olga Leonidovna says: “Our house belongs to a dilapidated building. Residents have been treated to promises of resettlement for 40 years. We don't have any hot water, no normal heating. In winter, I, a pensioner, spend unaffordable sums of money to buy firewood. 30,000 rubles are spent per winter on wood heating. Every day I remove bricks from the stove - it is slowly crumbling and collapsing. In the summer, when it’s hot, you have to spend money on going to the bathhouse - there’s nowhere else to rinse off. The windows are completely warped from age, have dried out and do not close. After they make the decision to expand Gorky, our houses will inevitably be demolished, and then their residents will finally know life under normal human conditions.”

Olga Leonidovna also said that the houses that are intended for liquidation undoubtedly retain historical value. For example, their house was once built for the priest of the Peter and Paul Church. On the ground floor there was a kitchen and servants. On the second is the family of the confessor. Another house from the history of the century before last is house number 127 on Gorky Street. It once housed the apartment of the Nevzorov sisters. Here in 1900, at a conservative meeting, Gorky's Marxists supported Lenin's idea of creating the newspaper Iskra. Until recently, the house housed the Museum of the Nizhny Novgorod Intelligentsia. Recreated from genuine household items, the interior of the Museum is a typical apartment of a middle-income intellectual of various ranks. Modesty, rigor, functionality, and the artistic taste of the owner are the main characteristics of the furnishings of the apartments. Now the building is in disrepair and is closed to the public.

There are many different pros and cons. Whatever our position, the plan for changing the zoning of the street has already been adopted by the City Duma, but it has not yet entered into force, which gives hope to activists and defenders of the urban environment. In August, 23,000 signatures in support of the park's alley landed on the city mayor's desk.

General plan

Developed by the city's Department of Urban Development and Architecture, the project involves changing the zoning of Kulibina Park from a recreational protected zone (T1) to a street zone (T-3). Thus, the liquidation of 1% of the fleet will become possible. The expansion of Gorky Street to six lanes is in accordance with the general plan of Nizhny Novgorod, since this street is a main street and has urban significance. Bandwidth it does not correspond to the intensity of traffic flows passing along this highway, connecting two major transport hubs of the city: Maxim Gorky Square and Freedom Square.

The mayor of the city, Oleg Sorokin, says that nothing threatens the park this year. “Neither the city budget nor any other documents provide for funding for road work, therefore, they will not be carried out. In addition, the results of pre-design work are expected, as well as a series of public hearings, at which the opinions of Nizhny Novgorod residents will be heard and taken into account. Only after this the question of whether to start the project or not will become clear.”

Alternative offers

It seems reasonable to ban parking along Kulibinsky Park. This will free up an additional lane for traffic.

It is also proposed to turn Gorky Street into a pedestrian zone or open access to it only for public transport.

In light of the events boiling around the park area, it is proposed to finally pay attention to it itself. The territory of the park will be reduced from the side of Gorky Street - that is, exactly where it is most populated and landscaped. The area closer to Belinsky Street is rather nondescript and not landscaped. If the authorities care about the park’s vacationers, they should think about installing lighting on its territory, thinking through the logistics of entertainment, and updating the park with new plantings so that it does not deteriorate. Install normal chess tables, after all. If city residents remain satisfied with their own park, their indignation will fade away, because what citizens need most is a constructive dialogue with the authorities, and not a game of tug-of-war.

Be that as it may, the decision to change the zoning of the park has been made, the city is constantly growing, the number of cars is increasing, and leaving a narrow neck of an important street along which thousands of people move, including in order to transfer to the metro, is pointless.

On our website you can take part in the survey “Is it worth cutting down relict linden trees in Kulibin Park to expand Gorky Street?” and cast your vote for the most acceptable, in your opinion, decision regarding fleet reduction. Accordingly, we can draw a conclusion about the position of the portal’s readers.

In the appendix to this publication you will find schemes for changing the zoning of the park and a plan for organizing a compensation park on Gorky Street.

One of the most favorite places of many Nizhny Novgorod residents is the Kulibin Park. This is no coincidence - after all, here you can leisurely stroll along the paths, sit in the shade of spreading linden trees, and there is a place for children to frolic. The park is located very conveniently: from north to south between Gorky and Belinsky streets, from west to east - between Ashgabat and Osharskaya streets. You can get to it from all areas of the city by public transport(3 tram routes and more than 15 bus routes operate).

I love coming here, because this is where I often walked with my parents in preschool age. I only recently learned about the history of this park from the stories of my elderly relatives.

The Kulibin Park was founded in 1940 on the territory of the former Peter and Paul Cemetery. Named in honor of the self-taught Russian mechanic Ivan Petrovich Kulibin, who was born in Podnovye and buried in the Peter and Paul Cemetery in 1818.
The cemetery itself was founded in 1775 on the Varvarsky field with the aim of moving burials outside the city limits, since previously the dead were buried in graveyards near parish churches, and as the city expanded, the presence of parish cemeteries made it difficult to build roads and streets.

A significant part of the population of Nizhny Novgorod was buried at the Peter and Paul Cemetery, including public figures, merchants, and writers. During the First World War, mass graves of fallen Nizhny Novgorod soldiers were built on the territory of the cemetery. Burials continued until 1918. In 1937, the cemetery was closed, the graves and family crypts were destroyed.

In 1939-1940, a park was founded on the territory of the cemetery, the construction of pavilions, attractions, and the laying of paths began. In 1960, work on the improvement of the park was completed. Only two graves remained intact from the cemetery - I.P. Kulibin and M. Gorky’s grandmother Akulina Ivanovna Kashirina. In their place, a bust of Kulibin, a bas-relief with his image, and a stele with a bas-relief of Akulina Kashirina were installed.
By 1990, all attractions were dismantled. In 2012, the monument to M. Gorky, erected in the 1940s, was dismantled. Now there is a chapel in its place.

Despite the numerous changes that the park has undergone over its history, it still remains the most beautiful and favorite recreation area for many citizens, including my family. We especially like to wander under its spreading trees, silent guardians of time, and enjoy the spring trills of birds, which find it so difficult to find shelter in a modern metropolis. I would like modern developments not to encroach on its boundaries, and for it to continue to remain a quiet green island in the middle of the big city.

Sobyanina Alexandra
school No. 103, class 2a

My native Nizhny Novgorod is a city with a long history. One can talk endlessly about almost every street, building and attraction. And how much has already been said: how much has been studied by historians, how much has been written by publicists! Each district of the city creates many memories in the minds of its residents. Something is happening before our eyes, on the neighboring streets, but we learn about former times from books, television shows, and hear the stories of our grandmothers. I would like to tell you about my favorite corner of Old Nizhny, which is located a five-minute walk from my house.

Although calling this place a “corner” is quite difficult. Its area is at the moment is about 24 hectares, and it is limited by two iconic streets for Nizhny Novgorod - Belinsky and Gorky. As you already understand, I’m talking about Kulibina Park.

I, like many other Nizhny Novgorod residents, have favorite places in the city. This is for example: our beautiful Kremlin, with its majestic towers and walls; streets - B. Pokrovskaya, Rozhdestvenskaya with their beautiful architecture, monuments to M. Gorky, V.P. Chkalov, Kuzma Minin and others. We can also show residents of other cities and countries the museum - the house of the Rukavishnikovs, the merchant Sirotkin; cable car; Nizhny Novgorod Fair and much, much more.