Today we will go to the very north of the capital, to the River Station area and get acquainted with the sights of Friendship Park and the park surrounding the River Station itself.
These parks represent a single forested area on the eastern bank of the Khimki Reservoir, divided into two parts by the Leningrad Highway
These parks represent a single forested area on the eastern bank of the Khimki Reservoir, divided into two parts by the Leningrad Highway.
Our walk starts from the Rechnoy Vokzal metro station on the Zamoskvoretskaya line. After getting out of the train car, we follow the signs and look for the “Exit to the River Station and Friendship Park” we need.
Once on the surface, let's go a little forward and turn left. We follow the sidewalk past a small Shopping center"Inter-Service", and then along Festivalnaya Street to Leningradskoye Shosse.
Behind cast iron fence, past which we pass, is the Friendship Park, we will go there in the second part of our walk, our first goal is the River Station and the surrounding park, located on the opposite side of Leningradka. You can cross this highway, which is busy at any time of the day, only through an underground passage. The closest of them is located on our left, about fifty meters from the intersection of Festivalnaya Street and Leningradskoye Shosse.
Let's turn left, reach the crossing and cross to the opposite side. Coming out of the passage, we find ourselves at the central entrance to the River Station Park. It is decorated with a sculpture made of white stone - a woman holding a sailing ship in her arms raised above her head. This is “Waterway” by sculptor Yulia Kun.
On the right and left sides of the entrance, cast iron anchors are installed on granite pedestals. The park fence itself, the same age as the River Station, built in 1937, is also of architectural value.
We enter the park along the central alley. The spire of the Northern River Station building is visible ahead.
The left side of the park is dedicated to children's attractions. There are plenty of carousels, inflatable trampolines, shooting galleries and other entertainment here. Most of them are surrounded by tall trees, which is important in hot weather. summer days, children will be protected from the scorching sun.
On one of the alleys there is a small fountain, adding additional freshness to the atmosphere.
If you come for a walk without small children, then you can lower the left side of the park and head along the central alley directly to the River Station.
The alley ends with a parking lot for cars meeting and seeing off cruise boats.
There are also ticket offices, temporarily located in a separate pavilion, since the station building is closed for reconstruction.
So, we approached the main attraction of the park, the building of the Northern River Station. Sometimes it is called Khimki Station after the name of the reservoir on which it is located.
The station was built simultaneously with the opening of the Moscow Canal, in 1937. The inscription on the facade of the building tells us this.
There are also bas-reliefs on a “water” theme, the roof of the building is decorated with sculptures of Soviet citizens, traditional for the architecture of the 1930s (similar sculptures decorate, for example, some of Stalin’s famous high-rise buildings), a clock visible from afar is installed on the spire, and it is crowned , of course, a five-pointed star.
Let's go around the station on the left side through a small gate in the fence. We find ourselves at the pier of the Khimki Reservoir.
Cruise ships depart from the Khimki Reservoir through the Moscow Canal. Most of them head east along the Volga. However, there are also those who take tourists to the north-west: through the Rybinsk Reservoir and White Lake to Karelia, to the famous monument of wooden architecture Kizhi, Petrozavodsk and further, through Ladoga lake, in Saint-Petersburg.
The variety of ships is impressive. Here you can see both small pleasure boats and massive three- or four-deck liners.
View of the North Station building from the pier:
As we have already noted, the building is under restoration. However, even in this form, it looks decent. When the renovation work is completed, the River Station will, without a doubt, return to the list of the most beautiful buildings in Moscow of the 20th century.
Let's walk along the pier from the southern wing of the station to the northern. Here, near the northern wing, there is a monument to the outstanding Russian shipbuilder, Academician Alexei Nikolaevich Krylov.
Once in the park, on the left hand we will see the sculptural composition “Basketball Players”.
We move along a small asphalt alley towards the exit from the park. As already mentioned, the trees in the park are quite tall and grow quite close to each other, therefore, even on the sunniest day it does not get hot here. And if it rains, the tree crowns will cover passers-by. You can simply walk around the park, enjoying the fresh air, or go rollerblading or cycling.
Returning to the main entrance, we go through the underground passage to the other side of the Leningradskoe Highway. Our next goal is Friendship Park.
One of the main entrances to the park is located right in front of us. However, in order not to get confused and not miss a single attraction, we will first walk along Leningradka to the right (to the south). The landmark for the turn will be the sculpture of a horseman, clearly visible from Leningradka. Here we will turn into the green zone of the park.
On closer inspection, the horseman turns out to be a monument to Manas the Magnanimous, the hero of the Kyrgyz epic. This is a gift to the city of Moscow from the friendly Republic of Kyrgyzstan. It was installed relatively recently, in 2012.
Let's go down from the hill on which the monument is located and proceed deeper into the park, keeping a little to the right. Here, surrounded by neatly trimmed bushes, we will see a red granite stone. The inscription on it reads: . Thus, next to the gift from the Kyrgyz people, another one should soon appear - from the Kazakh people.
Returning to the Manas sculpture, we will follow the alley of the park, running parallel to Leningradka.
Without walking even twenty meters, we will see another sculpture. This is Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish writer, author of the immortal novel Don Quixote.
This monument is another gift to Moscow, this time from Spain, the birthplace of Cervantes. Since this is already the third such attraction, it’s worth stopping for a couple of minutes and taking a short excursion into the history of the creation of Friendship Park.
The park was founded in 1957 during the VI World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow. The festival became a significant event in international relations, because not only socialist countries friendly to the Soviet Union took part in it, but also representatives of the “enemy” capitalist camp.
The festival took place at the very height of the so-called “Khrushchev Thaw”; Muscovites freely communicated with foreigners; this was not forbidden by anyone, as it was before and as it became again later. The park founded by the participants of the festival was called “Friendship Park”, where the word “friendship” meant friendship between peoples. In some sources, to this day, the unofficial name “Park of Friendship of Peoples” is sometimes found. Therefore, many sculptures are gifts from other states , are installed here. Looking ahead, let's say that Cervantes is far from the last monument in this series.
Immediately behind the monument to Cervantes, in the depths of the park, there is another sculptural composition. Let's head towards her. Three sculptures, two women, one of whom is holding a baby and a man, these are “Children of the World”.
The monument, confirming what was said above, is a gift from the capital of Finland, the city of Helsinki. It appeared in Moscow in 1990, at the same time a monument to the Soviet sculptor Yu. Kiryukhin “World Peace” was erected in Helsinki.
Let's return to the monument to Cervantes and continue along the Leningradskoye Highway. Ahead we see an intersection, and before reaching it, on our left hand there is a sculpture: a man and a woman are holding a huge basket of fruit in their hands.
This allegorical composition is called “Fertility”. Its author is the Soviet sculptor V.I. Mukhina, creator of the world famous monument “Worker and Collective Farm Woman”. The sculpture that we see in front of us is an enlarged copy of the original, created after Mukhina’s death by her students.
Looking ahead, we will say that “Fertility” is part of an ensemble consisting of two sculptural groups. We will see the second group, called “Bread,” a little later.
Behind “Fertility”, closer to the Leningradskoye Highway, between two symmetrically planted birch trees there is a small granite stele.
The inscription is made in Spanish, there are no explanations in Russian, so we will give its literal translation: “Carlos Fonseca Amador. Founder of the Sandinista National Liberation Front of Nicaragua. Planted the Tree of Friendship here during the VI World Youth Festival of Students in Moscow.”
Let's move on. We approach the intersection of the alley running along the Leningradskoye Shosse with the alley going deep into the park. It's worth stopping here and looking around. To our left, behind Leningradka, the spire of the River Station is visible.
Deep in the park, behind the trees, you can see a pedestal made of yellow stone.
The monument itself is not visible; we will definitely come to it, but a little later.
First, let's pay attention to the sculpture located directly in the direction of travel, to our left. This is the same sculptural group “Bread” mentioned above.
It depicts two women holding a sheaf of wheat. The sculptures “Bread” and “Fertility” are made in a similar manner, even to the average person ignorant of the intricacies of sculptural craftsmanship it is clear that they are part of a single ensemble.
Let's walk a little more along Leningradka and stop at a monument depicting a man with a long beard in a robe down to his toes and clearly not European pointed shoes. This is a monument to Rabindranath Tagore, an Indian writer and thinker.
It is not difficult to guess that the monument is a gift to Moscow from India.
Let's return to the intersection and proceed deeper into the park, to where we saw another monument. When the foliage parts, a ten-meter stele made of yellow stone, located on a cylindrical eminence, will appear before our eyes. The bas-relief decorating the stele depicts two women releasing doves into the sky. This is the Monument to Hungarian-Soviet Friendship.
The monument was presented to Moscow in 1975, in honor of the 30th anniversary of the liberation of Hungary from the Nazi invaders. It is an exact copy of the monument installed in Friendship Park in Budapest. The choice of material is also symbolic: the stele is made of pyro-granite. This ceramic material is produced in only one place on Earth, the Hungarian city of Pécs.
We follow the alley going deep into the park. After walking about 30 meters, we will see a tiled path going to the left. Let's turn towards it.
Having walked along it, we will see on the right hand a small obelisk, which depicts a girl planting flowers. The inscription under the image reads: “Danish gratitude to the feat of the Soviet Union.”
Nearby, a small slab is mounted in the ground with the inscription: “Commemorative stele - a gift from the Danish association of disabled people fighting for freedom as a sign of gratitude to the Soviet people for their decisive contribution to the defeat of Hitler's fascism. Installed on May 9, 1986. Author-sculptor E. Frederiksen.”
And on the other side of the path you can see a chestnut growing separately from other trees.
At its foot there is a small stone and a tablet.
Coming closer, we will read the inscription on it: “Tree of Peace. Planted on May 9, 1993 in honor of the “World Peace Run”, carrying the ideals of Peace, Unity, Concord and Harmony. Included as a peace monument in the International Peacekeeping Non-Governmental Program of the UN “Inflorescences of Peace of Sri Chinmoy”. Sri Chinmoy is an Indian public figure, the creator of his own movement, the main principles of which are peace and unity of peoples.
Let's return back to the alley and follow it further. We soon come to a vast open space located in a depression well below the general ground level of the park.
Long before the creation of Friendship Park, there was a sand quarry of a brick factory here. Subsequently, when the quarry was closed, part of it naturally filled with water, forming the Festival Ponds (we'll get to them soon), and the unflooded part was equipped as sports grounds. Volleyball and rugby are played here, and the largest area is given over to such an exotic sport for Russia as baseball.
It depicts two figures, a girl and a boy, releasing doves into the sky. The monument was erected in 1985, when the World Festival of Youth and Students, the twelfth in a row, was also held in Moscow.
From the site where the monument is located, along the shore of the northernmost of the Festival ponds, a small alley leads us back towards the exit from the park.
The alley is lined with rowan trees; at its beginning (or at the end, depending on which side you look at) there is an interesting stone. The inscription on it says that this alley is named in honor of Alisa Selezneva, a girl from the future, the heroine of children's books by Kir Bulychev and the film "Guest from the Future" adored by Soviet children. The plaque depicts Alice herself and the fantastic bird Talker, her faithful friend.
The alley was founded in 2001 by matured fans of Bulychev’s work. In the fall, they come here for ripened mountain ash and make a special tincture from it, which is called “Alisovka”.
After walking along the alley, we will return to the baseball field. Let's go around it on the right side. In cloudless weather, you can see the spire of the Ostankino Tower in the distance.
A small obelisk made of black granite, near which you can always see fresh flowers, candles and other memorable symbols, sharply contrasts with the previous one with a comic childish stone.
Along the path, paved with paving stones, and after some distance turning into asphalt, we head towards the exit from the park.
At the end of the path we see a modern yellow building.
This is the rear facade of the Rechnoy Shopping Center. Having gone around it on the left side, we find ourselves at the starting and at the same time ending point of our route, at the lobby of the Rechnoy Vokzal metro station.
This concludes our walk.
May 5th, 2016 , 09:13 pm
The creation of the Friendship Park, covering an area of about 50 hectares, was timed to coincide with the VI World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow. Until 1957, on the Leningradskoye Highway opposite the Northern River Station there was a vacant lot with the remains of rural buildings on the site of the village of Aksinino, with a wood warehouse and railway lines to the asphalt concrete and Nikolsky brick factories.
After the end of the Second World War, a world conference of youth for peace was held in London, at which it was decided to hold international festivals under the slogan “For peace and friendship!” The program included political seminars and discussions, concerts, sports competitions, and the festivals opened with a colorful procession of participants. The symbol of the youth forum was the Dove of Peace, painted by Pablo Picasso.
The main youth forum of the planet came to the capital of the USSR after Prague, Budapest, Bucharest, Berlin, Warsaw, and in each of the cities that hosted the World Festival of Youth and Students, delegates planted trees in parks and squares. Moscow supported the festival tradition by greening the northwestern outskirts of the city.
Plan of Friendship Park. 1957: https://pastvu.com/p/13102
The park project was developed by a team of young architects, recent graduates of the Moscow Architectural Institute. For Valentin Ivanov, Galina Ezhova, Anatoly Savin, this was the first independent work, completed with the tactful participation of Vitaly Dolganov, who headed the design workshop for landscaping Moscow. In particular, according to Dolganov’s project, an observation deck was built on the Lenin Mountains, and his services were awarded the Order of Lenin. The master’s professional advice was useful to the youth, who were given complete freedom of action.
The creators of the park also collaborated with the architect Karo Alabyan, who at that time was developing a detailed layout of the new streets, which in 1964 received the names Festivalnaya and Flotskaya. On December 31 of the same year, the Rechnoy Vokzal metro station, built according to a standard design, opened for passengers on the territory of Friendship Park.
Friendship Park and Festivalnaya Street. 1965-1967: https://pastvu.com/p/22315
Well, in the spring of 1957, young architects pushed their project through the authorities. The architectural and planning solution differed from the neighboring park of the Northern River Station, located on a flat terrain.
Ivanov, Ezhova and Savin defended the preservation of the picturesque landscape with hills and ponds. Only in April the executive committee of the Moscow City Council approved the plan and a team of landscapers from the Moszelenstroy trust began practical work with the support of hundreds of Komsomol members brought to the site by buses with shovels and rakes.
In Friendship Park, paths and squares were laid out, benches were installed, bridges were built across the canals, and 500 birch, linden, maple, larch, chestnut and coniferous trees from nurseries were planted. Five fifty-year-old linden trees symbolized the five continents, and in the center stood an eighty-year-old oak tree from the Khimki Forest Park. The main decoration of the park was flower bed- the emblem of the World Festival of Youth and Students is a daisy with five multi-colored petals.
Let me remind you that at that time the surroundings of the River Station were a village mixed with an industrial zone and, in order to retouch the unsightly reality, the organizers painted blank fences with images of young people of different nations walking towards the park with seedlings, watering cans and shovels in their hands. This was probably the first domestic graffiti, and legal one at that.
The park's opening celebration took place on August 1, 1957, with a huge crowd of people. About a thousand trees were stocked for planting, but there were five times more people willing to take part in the gardening. The delegates left notes with their names on the seedlings and, after completing the honorable mission, were treated to wine and fruit, which were distributed by young men and women to national costumes peoples of the republics of the USSR. But the amateur performance did not take place due to heavy rain, which forced the festival delegates to scatter to their buses.
Planting trees in the park. August 1, 1957: https://pastvu.com/p/13104
Soviet youth, having just freed themselves from the Stalinist cap, for the first time had the opportunity to freely exchange opinions with guests from capitalist countries, hence the fashion for jeans, stylish hairstyles, rock and roll, and individual Komsomol members could not resist even more informal communication with envoys from other continents, which led to the emergence of the phraseological unit “children of the festival.”
Another Moscow festival was held in 1985 at a high ideological level and did not become such an enchanting event. By the beginning of this festival, a landscape composition was opened in Friendship Park " Festival flower" The tradition of holding youth forums has survived to this day; the XIX World Festival of Youth and Students is planned to be held in September-October 2017 in Sochi.
Well, all the planted trees took root and Friendship Park is still a favorite walking place for local residents. In 1957, Moscow pioneers solemnly promised to take care of the plantings, but with the abolition of the pioneer organization, this responsibility was transferred to employees of public utilities.
The daisy flowerbed was destroyed in 1977, and in its place a monument to Hungarian-Soviet friendship was erected based on the idea of the Soviet sculptor Vuchetich and the Hungarian Shtorbl (sculptor B. Buza, architects I. Zilahi, I. Fedorov). Since then, many chaotically installed sculptures and memorial signs have appeared on the territory of Friendship Park, which are not directly related to the youth festival movement.
The sculptural compositions “Bread” and “Fertility” were created according to sketches by Vera Mukhina
The “Friendship” monument is the central part of the “Festival Flower” composition
Memorial sign to Nicaraguan revolutionary Carlos Fonseca Amador, who died in 1976
Danish gratitude to the feat of the Soviet Union (1986)
Commemorative plate of the monument to the memory of soldiers killed in Afghanistan
Monument to the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1990)
Monument to the Spanish writer Cervantes (1981, copy of the 1835 sculpture by Antonio Sol). Vandals regularly take Cervantes's sword.
Monument to the Kyrgyz epic hero Manas the Magnanimous - bronze figure of a hero (2012)
Sculptural composition
Tree of Peace
Alley of Alisa Selezneva, heroine of the television film “Guest from the Future” (2001)
Six Festival ponds are connected by channels with bridges across them. After the festival, this part of the park remained wild and only by 1980 it acquired its current appearance - with asphalt paths and concrete banks. The reason for the improvement was the holding of the XXII Olympic Games in Moscow, in which the Dynamo Sports Palace on Lavochkina Street, adjacent to the park, was involved.
Quarries filled with water. 1957-1958: https://pastvu.com/p/13101
Improvement of the ponds is planned for 2016, for which the surrounding area is fenced and passages through the walkways are blocked. The list of planned works includes cleaning of silt and deepening of ponds, reconstruction of the spillway, installation of a feeding water pipeline, repair of the coastline, and improvement of the adjacent territory.
Some of the quarries of the Nikolsky Brickworks were flooded, while others were used as sports grounds for playing rugby and baseball. The park hosted model aircraft competitions and hunting dog tests. Once upon a time, the NKZ brick factory occupied a vast area along the Leningradskoye Shosse and Konakovsky Proezd and worked on its own raw materials, extracting clay from quarries, which later became ponds. The excavation of clay was carried out all year round by dredging machines that moved on rails along the edge of the quarry. In the early 1980s, production began to be curtailed, building up the factory territory with housing, and legally the NKZ ceased to exist in 1998.
“In every home there is a place where unnecessary gifts are put: a cozy little box where ridiculous porcelain dogs, clumsy shepherdesses, cheap perfumes end their days - everything that will never be useful, but it’s a pity to throw away. Cities are worse off in this sense - sometimes they are given things that are awkward to show and impossible not to show. For example, monuments as a sign eternal friendship and deep affection" (Izvestia newspaper, 2006). Well, actually, in continuation of the Festival Ponds - a few photographs of the park itself and its monuments.
The popular park near the current Rechnoy Vokzal metro station has existed since 1957. The park was laid out as a sign of the eternal friendship of peoples in 1957 - the year it was held in the capitalSixth World Festival of Youth and Students. A good tradition of this festival was the opening of memorial alleys of friendship in the cities that hosted the festival. In Moscow, it was decided to lay out an entire park.
1. Archival photographs of the layout of Friendship Park. Photos from here . By the way, a great article about the history of the creation of Friendship Park in Moscow - the memoirs of one of the architects - V.I. Ivanov. When the trees were small.))))
2. The central monument of Friendship Park is, in fact, the Friendship monument itself. This monument appeared in the park in 1985.
3. Not far from “Druzhba” there is a small walking path along the shore of one of the Festival ponds. At the very beginning of this path there is a huge boulder on which there is a metal sign “Alley named after Alisa Selezneva.” Here is an image of the heroine of my childhood with the Talking Bird on her shoulder.
From afar, the granite stone with this sign looks a bit like a tombstone, so apparently I’ve already come across this place on the Internet with the description “Tomb of Alisa Selezneva.” The amazing thing is nearby, but in the vastness of the RuNet, it turns out there is even a whole fan club “Guests from the Future”. And their website is called Mielofon , in honor of the mysterious crystal that caused all the fuss in the film. By the way, there is also the history of the creation of this alley.
4. On the alley named after Alisa Selezneva, rowan trees named after Alisa Selezneva are in full bloom with flowers named after Alisa Selezneva.)))
5. Square near the Friendship monument.
6. Let's move on - Friendship Park has preserved the spent quarries of the Nikolsky brick factory. Some of these quarries were filled with water, now these are Festival Ponds. Two quarries are dry. One of them became an impromptu sports ground...
7. The other one, the one that is closer to the metro and smaller in size, is simply overgrown with trees.
8. Of course, Friendship Park cannot do without a peace tree. The Peace Tree is a relatively small chestnut tree with a plaque and a huge boulder nearby. The tree was planted by followers of the Indian philosopher and athlete Sri Chinmoy - in addition to poems and popular expressions, he is famous for lifting weights “in the name of harmony.” The Peace Tree was planted in 1993. 
9. Much more expressive than the tree of peace, a huge lilac bush blooms nearby. 
10. Well, actually, monuments. Memorial plate to Afghan soldiers. Quite modest. 
11. Slightly wilted flowers on black marble. It's good that they still bring them here. 
12. Memorial stele to the feat of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War. The stella was donated to the city by Denmark and installed in the park on May 9, 1986. 
13. In 1990, another monument appeared in Friendship Park, kindly donated to Muscovites by Finland. The monument bears beautiful name- "Children of the World". True, the sign reminding of this was stolen by one of the visitors. And now, without identification marks, this extremely peculiar monument is associated with anything, but only with performance and the world. IMHO. 
14. I still don’t understand why exactly the monument was designed in this way. One of the “children of the world” is holding such a charming child, covered with chips, in his arms. 
There's probably a lot I don't understand about architecture.
15. Monumental and cumbersome, like the Hungarian “Icarus” accordion, the monument to eternal Soviet-Hungarian friendship rises into the sky above the park. 
16. Miguel de Cervantes, changed his Madrid residence permit to Friendship Park in 1981. Now he looks with longing in his eyes at the traffic jams of the Leningrad highway, clutching the hilt of a sword in his hand, which was also carefully stolen. 
17. A gift to Moscow from the people of India - a monument to Rabindranath Tagore was erected in the park in 1991. 
18. Sculptural composition by Vera Mukhina “Bread”. Two very undressed young ladies are holding a huge sheaf of wheat above their heads. 
19. One of the beauties. 
20. Another creation of Mukhina is a sculpture of fertility. A sitting girl and a young man are holding a dish with all sorts of different delicacies in their hands. Everything would be fine, but upon closer examination I was shocked by the size of the young lady’s feet. And so - against the backdrop of "Children of the World" it is simply wonderful.))))
Are you looking for a place for a pleasant walk and relaxation in nature on a weekend in the capital? Be sure to visit the Friendship Park at the River Station - it is a beautiful and fairly landscaped recreation area. Here everyone will find something to do and will appreciate the cleanliness of the local air. Where is this park located and what is the history of its creation?
Trees planted in honor of friendship
For the 50-60s of the last century, it was a tradition to organize all kinds of festivals and meetings between activists of Soviet youth movements and their colleagues from other countries. Such events usually took place with meetings and ceremonies. Often delegations, together with the host party, participated in cleanup days and tree plantings. The VI World Festival of Youth and Students (1957) was no exception to the rule, during which the Friendship Park was founded at the River Station. During all of the previous five festivals, the cities where they took place planted trees in local recreation areas. In time V Friendship Alley was planted during the meeting in Warsaw. But the Moscow festival distinguished itself in a special way - by planting an entire park.
Location of the park and its boundaries
Description of the recreation area
Today, Friendship Park at the River Station has a regular layout. There are enough lawns and flower beds, trees are planted singly and in groups. There are several ponds in the recreation area and beautiful bridges. But there are no modern attractions and entertainment here. This is a place for a relaxing family holiday. Here you can walk, play sports, relax, sitting on benches or grass. If you want to ride a roller coaster or go to the Panic Room, choose a different recreation area. Friendship Park in Moscow boasts modern children's and sports grounds, and there are many interesting monuments here.
Sights and interesting objects
There are many interesting monuments in the park. The central piece is the “Festival Flower” - a sculptural composition consisting of figures of young people releasing doves. Near the main entrance you can see a monument to Hungarian-Soviet friendship, this is a gift to the park from the residents of Budapest (1976). Same monument erected and in Budapest itself. The Park of Friendship at the River Station is decorated with two sculptures by Vera Mukhina: “Bread” and “Fertility”. There are other monuments here: “Children of the World”, a memorial to “Warriors Who Fell in Afghanistan”, a Nicaraguan stele to Carlos Fonseca Amador - a fighter for national liberation. The most modern and popular attraction of the park is the Alice Selezneva Alley, opened in 2001 with the participation of the author of the work “Alice’s Adventures” - Kira Bulychev and the actress Natalia Guseva, who played the main role in the film “Guest from the Future.” The children's favorite place in the recreation area is the Rainbow circus tent. Many residents of the capital come here on weekends. Friendship Park (River Station) hosts a wide variety of events - friendly sports tournaments, concerts and dance evenings, meetings of activists of youth movements. Aircraft modeling enthusiasts gather here regularly. There is a dog walking area in the park; sometimes you can watch dog shows or animal exhibitions here.
How to get to Friendship Park?
Getting to the main entrance to the recreation area is not entirely easy due to traffic jams. But even if you succeed, be prepared for the fact that the park does not have its own parking lot. Think in advance where you are willing to leave the car. The best option- enter from Festivalnaya Street, here you can find a small parking lot; many motorists park right along the road. An alternative option is to turn off Leningradskoe Shosse onto Flotskaya and leave the car in one of the residential courtyards. What to do if you don’t have a personal car, but you really want to visit the Friendship Park at the River Station? How to get here by public transport? The easiest option is to take the metro to the Rechnoy Vokzal station; one of its lobbies is located directly on the territory of the park. There are also many ground transport stops near the park, with a variety of routes running here.
