Загородный сад, Recreation park in Central District of Tyumen, Russia.
Zagorodny Garden stretches along the Tura River banks with walking paths, fountains, sculptures, and planted areas featuring pines, birches, and lindens. The park connects the central district to the Profsoyuzny Bridge crossing the river.
The garden first appeared on wasteland in 1851, when merchant Ivan Ikonnikov funded the planting of thousands of lindens, birches, spruces and pines on about 100 desyatins (40,000 m²). It was named Alexandrovsky after the 1837 visit of Tsarevich Alexander, the future Alexander II. In 1868 Alexander II's son, Prince Vladimir, planted a cedar here; neither tree survives. After 1917 the garden was abandoned until 1948, when shipyard workers restored part of it.
The bronze figures installed in 2007 depict 19th-century townspeople: a Hussar, Ladies on a Walk, a Resting Girl and a Boy. They were made by Tobolsk architect Elena Kashchaeva and Marina Spirchenko of Tobolsk's urban planning department. The garden's name Alexandrovsky, made official in 2007, honours the 1837 visit of Tsarevich Alexander, later Alexander II.
The park lies near the Profsoyuzny Bridge over the Tura, in Tyumen's Central District. Its area shrank tenfold after housing and a road to the bridge were built across it in the 1970s, so the remaining grounds are compact and easy to cross on foot. Enter from the bridge side to reach the restored fountain and the 19th-century figure sculptures.
The cedar planted by Prince Vladimir in 1868 and the tree linked to Tsarevich Alexander's 1837 visit both died; neither survives. The park also once had a greenhouse where pineapples grew, and from 1948 it held a Stalin monument and a shipbuilders' honour board.
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