Dubky Park, Moscow, Protected regional park in Timiryazevsky District, Moscow, Russia.
Dubky Park is a protected regional park in northern Moscow with walking paths, recreational areas, and fitness zones across its grounds. The landscape contains trees and vegetation arranged to create different sections where visitors can move through and rest.
The oak grove beside the Petrovskoe-Razumovskoe estate was bought in 1861 for the Petrovskaya Agricultural and Forestry Academy, and part of it was cut for roads and dacha plots. In 1862 the grove was one of the sites proposed for Moscow's first zoo, rejected as too far from the centre. Residents saved the oaks from felling after the Great Patriotic War, when the park was laid out and took the name Dubki; they defended it again in the 1980s.
The name Dubky, meaning "little oaks", was fixed after the Great Patriotic War, when residents saved the oak grove from felling and young oaks were planted. The grove was once called Solomennaya Storozhka, after the cottage settlement beside it. On weekends horse riding is offered, and in summer fountains run in the ponds where ducks swim.
The park has multiple entrances and is open daily for visitors of all ages and fitness levels. Wearing suitable shoes is advisable since the paths have various surfaces and can become slippery during rain.
In 1862 the grove was one of the sites proposed to Moscow's Society for Acclimatization of Wild Animals for the city's first zoo; the plan failed because the area then lay too far from the centre for visitors to travel. In 2016 protests against felling century-old oaks for the Timiryazev Park complex nearby ended with injuries among the defenders.
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