Park Imeni Yakutova, Regional cultural heritage park in Ufa, Russia.
Park Imeni Yakutova occupies the site of the former Ioanno-Predtechenskoe cemetery, founded in 1824 and closed in 1898, in central Ufa. Its grid of alleys between ulitsa Lenina and ulitsa Karla Marksa was laid out in 1904, when fast-growing poplars from a Penza gardening school were planted and each tree tagged with its planting date and the planter's name. Soldatskoye Lake lies in the northern part, with a boat station, a fountain and a restaurant on its shore.
The park began in 1903, when police chief Genrikh Bukhartovsky proposed a public garden between the Ioann Predtecha cemetery and Soldatskoye Lake; the city duma allocated land and 1,000 rubles on 11 November 1903. It opened in 1904 as the Garden of the Temperance Society, with poplars from a Penza horticulture school and birches and lindens bought from nearby peasants. Renamed for revolutionary Ivan Yakutov in 1918, it became a children's park in 1936 and was listed as a cultural monument in 1989.
The park was renamed in 1918 for Ivan Yakutov, a 1905 revolutionary and first chairman of the Ufa city soviet. In April–May 1918 railway workers and Red Guards killed fighting Ataman Dutov were buried here; a memorial complex opened in 1967. A children's railway, opened on 10 May 1953, still runs on the grounds.
The park is easily accessible by public transportation and located on a main street in central Ufa. Visiting during daylight hours gives you the best experience of all the pathways and areas.
The 1967 memorial complex marks the graves of railway workers and Red Guards killed fighting Ataman Dutov's White forces in 1918; they were buried here in April–May of that year. Nearby stands a 1952 bust of Ivan Yakutov by sculptor Tamara Nechayeva, moved several times before landing on one of the alleys.
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