Central Park, Public park in Medeu District, Almaty, Kazakhstan

Central Park covers 42 hectares in Almaty's Medeu District, down from over 100 hectares in 1983. Its tree cover includes elm, oak, aspen, maple, pine, spruce, poplar and birch, and the grounds hold artificial reservoirs, a water park, a cinema, a sports complex and a children's railway. A 2018 reconstruction added modern lighting, benches, basketball and football fields, a rollerdrome and a skate track.

In 1856 gardener G. Krishtopenko laid out the State Garden in the floodplain of the Malaya Almatinka River as a leisure ground for officers of the Verny garrison, planting the first deciduous and coniferous trees with help from local gardening enthusiasts. Seedlings and seeds arrived in 1868 from the Nikitsky Botanical Garden and the Penza School of Horticulture. Renamed after Maxim Gorky in 1935, the park was privatized in 2004 and reconstructed in 2018.

The park's name honours writer Maxim Gorky, whose monument was erected here in 1940. In 1919 the grounds hosted an aytysh, a traditional Kazakh verbal contest, and in 2018 an amphitheatre was renovated for open-air events.

The park lies in the Medeu District along the Malaya Almatinka floodplain; the 2018 reconstruction added modern lighting, benches, children's and street workout playgrounds, basketball and football fields, a rollerdrome and a skate track. The irrigation ditch system is not currently operating, and the grounds shrank from over 100 hectares in 1983 to 42 hectares by 2013.

The park's irrigation ditch system, laid out during the 1934 reconstruction to water the whole grounds, is no longer in operation. In 2018 about 1.6 billion tenge of private funds went into reconstruction: modern lighting and benches, renovated fountains and an amphitheater, plus basketball and football fields, a rollerdrome and a skate track on the former parking site.