Берёзовая Роща, Regional cultural heritage park in Khoroshyovsky District, Moscow, Russia.
Beryozovaya Roshcha is a 42-hectare park in Moscow's Khoroshyovsky District, between Kuusinen Street and Beryozovoy Roshchi Passage. Its plantings are dominated by ash, linden and maple rather than birch; several century-old oaks and about ten Nedzvetsky apple trees also grow here. The park was reconstructed in 2014–2015 under the LAARDY design bureau, adding cycle paths, workout and dance areas, and Wi-Fi.
The park was laid out in the early 1960s on the site of an infantry camp on Khodynka Field, during housing construction in the area. In the second half of the 1960s it was landscaped under architect B. V. Belozersky of Mosproekt-3, when army huts and fences were demolished and alleys and flower beds were created. A hurricane on 21 June 1998 felled many trees, replaced by birches and lindens.
The name "Beryozovaya Roshcha" (Birch Grove) was used by locals before the park was officially created and appeared in print in the early 1960s; it was recorded in the 1980 Moscow encyclopedia despite birches not dominating the plantings, where ash, linden and maple are most numerous. Until the mid-2000s a wooden stage stood on a lawn facing Kuusinen Street, hosting concerts and cultural events during public holidays.
The park lies between Kuusinen Street and Beryozovoy Roshchi Passage, with Peschanaya Square and 3rd Peschanaya Street along its northwestern edge. The nearest metro stations are Polezhaevskaya and Khoroshyovskaya, and Zorge on the MCC. The southern part holds the district polyclinic, an administrative building and the last surviving barracks, now a dormitory; the northern part has a private restaurant and a dog-walking area.
The grove was named for birches, yet ash, linden and maple dominate its plantings; birches were planted mainly after the 1998 hurricane. Among the trees are century-old oaks and about ten Nedzvetsky apple trees, and squirrels, owls and ravens live here.
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