Zaryadye Park, Urban park near Red Square in Moscow, Russia.
Zaryadye Park is a 13-hectare park next to Red Square in Moscow that presents four landscapes representing Russian climate zones: forest, steppe, tundra, and floodplains. These zones follow descending terraces from street level down toward the river edge.
The site replaced a Soviet-era commercial district in 2017 and became the first new park in Moscow in more than 50 years. The original medieval neighborhood had already disappeared during the 20th century.
The name comes from the district that lay "behind the rows" of trading stalls stretching from the Moskva River to Varvarka Street behind the Kremlin. In the 16th and 17th centuries the area housed artisans, clerks and Russian and foreign merchants; Ivan the Terrible's 1555 Mytny customs court on Varvarka included the Old English Court, now a museum of Moscow. The park's concert hall, opened 8 September 2018, holds the largest organ in Russia and Europe by number of registers.
The park is walkable from Red Square, and pathways connect all the terraced levels together. An underground media center offers exhibitions, and the concert hall hosts regular performances.
The Soaring bridge is a V-shaped structure whose deck is wood and whose bearing frame is concrete, with metal decorative elements. It cantilevers 70 meters over the Moskva River without a single support and is built to hold 240 tons, roughly three to four thousand people. High fences line its sides.
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