Lopukhinsky Garden, Regional cultural heritage garden in Saint Petersburg, Russia

Lopukhinsky Garden covers 5.7 hectares on the odd side of Kamennoostrovsky Prospect between Akademika Pavlova Street and the Malaya Nevka. A flat lawn runs from a low stone retaining wall at the pond, where lily pads float, back to a large stone building; slender trees and shrubs stand near its facade, and a red-and-white lattice tower rises at the left edge.

In 1705 Russian trenches stood on this ground during the Great Northern War. In 1717 Peter I gave the plot to Siberian governor Prince M. P. Gagarin, executed for bribery in 1721; an Apothecary Garden followed, closed to outside settlement. Admiral G. G. Kushelev then passed it to Prince P. V. Lopukhin, whose name the garden keeps.

The garden's name comes from Prince P. V. Lopukhin, who acquired the estate in the early 19th century; his son Pyotr fought in the 1812 war. In 1849 the Parisian conductor Levino opened the Villa Monplaisir and a music pavilion on the Kamennoostrovsky Prospect side, and promenades and concerts were held here in the 1850s and 1860s.

The garden covers 5.7 hectares on the odd side of Kamennoostrovsky Prospect, between Akademika Pavlova Street and the Malaya Nevka. The 1990s restoration by architect Lyudmila Khangu returned the landscape layout and repaired the terrace, granite descents and fence. A low stone retaining wall borders the pond, and the red-and-white lattice tower marks the left edge.

The wooden two-storey villa built for merchant V. F. Gromov by architect G. I. Wintergalter in 1848 housed the Leningrad Television Studio from 1938 to 1961; the first experimental broadcast went out on 7 July 1938, with regular broadcasting starting 1 September.