Sokolniki Park, Public park in Sokolniki District, Moscow, Russia.

Sokolniki is a 516-hectare park in Moscow's Sokolniki District, bounded by Sokolnichesky Val, Bogorodskoe Highway, Rostokino Drive and the Yaroslavl Railway, and merging with Losiny Ostrov to the north. Its layout of radial clearings fanning out from a central circle dates from the 1840s, with two arc-shaped cross clearings and a five-circle labyrinth beyond the Putyaev ponds. Pines, spruces, birches, oaks, limes and maples fill the grounds, alongside larches, cedars, walnuts and red oaks.

Falconry by grand princes and tsars took place here in the 16th and 17th centuries, giving the park its name; Ivan the Terrible hunted in the forest in the 16th century and Alexei Mikhailovich from 1657. The groves were bought by the city in 1878 and turned into a public park, and in 1931 it became a city park of culture and rest.

The name comes from the Russian word for falcon, recalling when hunting birds were bred here for the court. Today families use the paths for walking, joggers train under the trees, and in summer visitors row on the lakes.

The main entrance is located near a metro station, making the journey easy. Several wide avenues lead to different areas, in summer there is boat rental on the lakes and in winter an outdoor ice rink.

In 1959 the American National Exhibition took place here, where Nixon and Khrushchev held their famous debate in front of a kitchen model. A museum in the park has been showing objects from different centuries on the history of leisure culture in Moscow since 2015.