Getting there
The very centre of the city. On foot from Gogol Street.
A city garden that has gone through five names.
The park began as the City Garden in the second half of the 19th century, then became the Pushkin Garden, Lenin Park and the Park of the Federation of Soviet Republics. It took the name of the 28 Panfilov Guardsmen in 1942.
The Memorial of Glory with its eternal flame opened on 8 May 1975. The story of the 28 soldiers remains disputed: a 1948 report by the Soviet Chief Military Prosecutor's Office, published in 2015, called the canonical account fiction, while some historians disagree.
The park also holds Ascension Cathedral and the wooden Museum of Folk Musical Instruments. It makes one of the nicest walks in the centre.
- Founded
- second half of the 19th century
- Current name
- since 1942
- Memorial of Glory
- 8 May 1975
