Forestry academy park map. Forestry Academy Park: history, how to get there. Park during and after the October Revolution

The area where the park of the Forestry University is located, in early XIX century was part of the "English farm" of Captain Alexander Davidson. In 1809 the farm was transferred to the treasury, in 1811 the Forest Institute, which had moved from Tsarskoye Selo, was housed here.
In 1825, the project of the Minister of Finance, Yegor Kankrin, on the prospects for the development of this territory was approved. This project identified here the places for buildings, vegetable gardens and English park... In 1826-1830, new buildings were built for the Forestry Institute. In 1830, the famous court gardener Joseph Bush was invited here to implement the project. In 1832, large-scale drainage work began here: canals were dug, the largest of which ran along the modern Lesnoy Avenue. In 1835, a number of streets were laid on the territory of the park, which in the future became the 1st and 2nd Murinsky avenues, Novorossiyskaya and Karbyshev streets.
Since the 1830s, due to a lack of funds, the Forestry Institute began to sell part of its land, and the territory of the park began to shrink. Summer cottages began to grow on the sold territory.
In 1841 a tree nursery was founded in the western part of the park. At the same time, a tradition arose to arrange on August 1 procession to the Jordan Pond. This tradition has recently been revived.
In 1911-1913, the route of the connecting branch of the Finnish railway passed through the southern part of the park.
The fact that the Forest Park survived the revolution, it owes primarily to the outstanding scientist Egbert Ludwigovich Wolf, who was the chief gardener of Lesnoy for forty-five years - from 1886 until his death. Wolf did a tremendous job of landscaping the park, compiled a description of it. He was the author of over two hundred scientific works on dendrology, which came out in four languages. In the city, not only specialists knew him well: every year, in front of the main building of the institute, Wolf laid out flower beds, which were rightfully considered the best in St. Petersburg. Egbert Ludwigovich did not leave his park even during the years of devastation, becoming its "guardian angel".
During the blockade of Leningrad, the park of the Forestry Academy was subjected to especially frequent bombing. According to some reports, the bunker of the reserve headquarters of the Leningrad Military District was located here.

In common people the park is called "Lestekhnichka".

They wanted to make the park closed in 2018, and even managed to weld some of the exits to Novorossiyskaya Street, but after popular outrage this idea was abandoned.
According to the General Plan, the territory of the park belongs to the P4 zones (zone of palace and park complexes and historical parks)
The territory adjacent to the buildings of the institute belongs to zone D (zone of all types of public and business development with the inclusion of residential buildings and engineering infrastructure facilities related to the maintenance of this zone) There are 2 such zones in the park.

At the beginning of the 19th century, an exemplary agricultural farm of the Englishman A. Davidson was located on the site of the modern park of the Forestry Academy. But soon it was confiscated by the state for non-payment of loan debts. And in 1811, the Forest Institute was located on this territory, which moved from Tsarskoye Selo. A park was formed around the building of the educational institution.

Forestry Academy named after S. M. Kirov

The Forestry Academy, or named after S.M. Kirov (St. It trains specialists in the field of forestry, timber-chemical, woodworking, hydrolysis, pulp and paper industry and in the area forestry... The departments of the university and 6 of its institutes are located in four educational buildings on the territory of the Forestry Park of St. Petersburg, which was laid out in 1827.

The history of the formation of the park of the Forestry Academy of St. Petersburg

The park was founded in 1827 by the decree of Emperor Alexander I. In the same year, a specialist in forest plantation Iensh was invited to the Forestry Institute (now the Forestry Academy).

During the year, from 1827 to 1828, roads were laid out in the park, places for future buildings were organized. At the same time, small islands of pines and firs were planted.

In 1830, the Park covers an area of ​​328 hectares. From 1850 to 1862 R.I. Schroeder, and from 1880 - Jurvein, from 1886 - to 1931 - the gardener E.L. Wolf, from 1931 to 1936 - I.A. Akimov, from 1938 to 1942 - V.I. Sukachev, since 1942 Grabovskaya A.A.

By 1862 the Forestry Park was planted with conifers and deciduous trees(hanging ash, lobed birch, red oak, American linden), forest paths and paths were improved.

The park was founded as training base for the institute, grew here great amount tree species... There were valuable breeds brought by Academician V. N. Sukachev from Transbaikalia, Crimea, Altai.

Park during and after the October Revolution

During the October Revolution for the park began Hard times... As a "relic of the imperial past", it was partially destroyed by people. But nature did not spare him either.

In 1924 on the territory Leningrad region there was a catastrophic flood with a strong hurricane wind, which caused huge damage to the park's plantings. More than six hundred trees have been broken or uprooted.

Not without burials in the park at this time. In its southwestern part, the Red Guards who died in the battles near Gatchina were buried. In honor of them, a memorial made of wood in the shape of a cube was unveiled at the burial site in 1927.

In 1929, the ponds in the park became shallow due to severe drought.

From 1918 to 1920, veterans of the Russian communist party(Bolsheviks).

And this is not the whole list of events that the park had to endure in the dashing post-revolutionary years. The famous scientist and gardener Egbert Wolf helped him survive. He did his best to improve the park, describe the species and did his best to preserve the species diversity of the unique woody vegetation. He was called the guardian angel of the park.

History of the park during the Great Patriotic War

The Patriotic War and the blockade of the city became a real disaster for the park. Young spruces, larches and pines died, as well as all varieties of fir. During the war years, 313 forms and types of unique woody vegetation were lost. Of the 250 varieties of pines and 500 varieties of cedar, only 3 trees survived.

The German enemy forces assumed that the reserve headquarters of the Leningrad Military District was located in the park, and they mercilessly bombed it. It was badly damaged by airstrikes by the invading army.

Post-war history of the park of the Forestry Academy

The restoration of the park began in 1957. Initially, the paths and paths were reconstructed, 8 thousand trees and about 27 thousand shrubs were planted.

A botanical nursery was reconstructed in the park, a greenhouse was created, and many small ponds and canals were ennobled.

Simultaneously with its restoration, there was a restoration of the country's industry. The park was surrounded by industrial enterprises, which negatively affected its vegetation. Already in the 60-70s, all seedlings and adult trees of European spruce completely died. Every year the park lost up to three hundred and fifty centuries-old pines, a grove of balsamic fir was lost, and several birch groves were also lost.

The park is currently

The park of the Forestry Academy of St. Petersburg is a charming forest with real edges, where you can take a break from the bustle of the city and enjoy the loud singing of birds. People come here to relax or play sports. V summer months it is very difficult to find free benches in the park, and people have gatherings right on the grass.

The park was once located far outside the city. Now he is surrounded industrial enterprises and residential areas. Currently, it is the city Park of Culture and Leisure of Leningraders and guests of the city. Here, at any time of the year, you can enjoy the beauty of nature, admire the species diversity of plants, of which there are more than a thousand. it favorite place recreation of students SPBGLTU them. Kirov, young mothers, couples in love, pensioners, tourists.

There are many ponds in the park: Long, Serdobolsky, Tsvetochny, Iordansky and others. Lovers of relaxation by the water can escape from the bustle of the city by sitting on the shore of the lake.

The park has a huge number of canals through which very beautiful wooden bridges are built. The area of ​​the park of the Forestry Academy is currently 65 hectares. Since the mid-90s, they began to reconstruct it, restore the forged fence around the territory.

Location of the park

The address of the Forestry Academy Park: at the intersection of Novorossiyskaya and Bolshoy Sampsonievsky Prospekt, in the Vyborgsky District, north of the Lesnaya metro station.

How to get to the Forestry Academy Park, ways:

• get off at the station "Ploshchad Muzhestva" and walk for 10-15 minutes along Karbysheva Street, the entrance to the park of the Forestry Academy will be on the right side;
• by minibus taxi № 152, 240а, 175, 223 - to the stop "Kharchenko";
• by bus # 262, 86 to the stop "Serdobolskaya";
• by tram number 20 to the stop "Serdobolskaya";
• by trolleybus number 6 to the stop "Novorossiyskaya", or it is also called "Institutskiy prospect".

Botanical Garden

Botanical Garden The Forestry Academy was founded in 1833, and a year later a greenhouse was built. Every year, students of the Forestry Institute planted several thousand seedlings, brought from all over Russia and even from Paris, into the ground. In 1841, a tree nursery was established on the territory, which served to educate students and grow their own planting material.

By 1862, the botanical garden contained almost all species growing on the territory of Russia.

In 1885, about 8 thousand trees and shrubs were planted from the botanical garden in the park. The forest nursery existed until the start of the war.

Over the years Patriotic War The upper arboretum was badly damaged. If in 1935 there were 1200 species of woody vegetation there, 800 remained after the war. The restoration of the garden, the greenhouse and the Forest Nursery began in 1946.

Currently, the botanical garden is divided into closed and open parts. total area its 45 hectares. There are about 1200 species of unique woody vegetation and more than 700 species of tropical and subtropical plants.

Interesting facts from the life of the Forestry Academy Park

Before the start of the Revolution, the park housed the Novosiltsevskaya church - a small church in the name of St. Prince Vladimir, built in 1834. It was erected at the expense of Ekaterina Novosiltseva in memory of her son who died in a duel here. The duel was in one of the park alleys, both duelists died, mortally wounding each other. Chernov died on the spot, and Novosiltsev was badly wounded. He was transferred to the next one of which he died. A church was founded on this site.

In the park, on one of the alleys, two large stones stand opposite each other, these are the traces of that unfortunate duel. They are located at a distance of 25 meters from each other, that is, they marked the places of the duelists from which they shot at each other (the duelists at that time shot at each other from a distance of 25 steps). This duel made a big splash in the life of St. Petersburg society. After the funeral, a custom was formed: before a duel threatening danger, before being sent to the front, officers came to the Novosiltsevskaya church to pray, confess, and ask for help.

But the post-revolutionary years were disastrous for the temple. It was blown up in 1932. The almshouse, which was with him, was transferred to other shelters in Leningrad. Its building was turned into laboratories for the institute.

During World War II, a bunker was built under the park of the Forestry Academy, which could even withstand atomic bombing... During the war years, he saved the lives of several thousand townspeople. The bunker is currently flooded, as well as most of of all the bomb shelters of the war times.

Several plots in the novel "Russian Forest" by Leonid Leonov take place in the park and at the Forest Institute of St. Petersburg.

Since autumn I was going to write about this park, which has long and many times walked all along and across.
The park of the Forestry Academy is located in the Vyborgsky district, a little to the north of the Lesnaya metro station and just near the Vyborg railway junction. It even partially affects the territory of the park.
This park is very old and was founded during the reign of Emperor Alexander the First at the beginning of the 19th century. The Forestry University itself was founded by the decree of the same emperor, and the buildings of the educational institution were located in this picturesque corner Vyborgsky district of the city.
More than 2 centuries have passed since this park appeared, and the only major change during this time was the fact that a railway appeared near it. Everything else stands and does not change for decades or even centuries.

1. I entered this territory from here, across Zemledelcheskaya Street. To the left stood an old pre-war building, and bridges were directly visible, along which the main railway line to Vyborg runs over Zemledelcheskaya Street.

2. The old plan of the park and I must say that for 90 years after its drawing up, almost nothing has changed. Well, maybe the names of the streets.
Novosiltsevskaya became Novorossiysk, Malaya Spasskaya became Karbysheva. Sochinskaya street appeared, which on this map is somehow indistinctly indicated as "Lesn. U".
The star-shaped Vyborg railway junction is visible.

3. The main passage of the railway to Vyborg is fenced everywhere. It is believed that there is high-speed traffic in the form of an "Allegro" train, although many times seeing how it travels within the city limits, this traffic can hardly be called high-speed. But getting to the paths almost everywhere became problematic. On the right, you can see the courtyard of a complex of residential buildings located along Bolshoy Sampsonievsky Prospekt.

4. And here is the very short Sochinskaya street, which looks more like a dirty alley, somewhere in the backyard.
It would not hurt the city to acquire a more decent street named after the capital of the Winter Olympics. In new districts, for example, you can call an entire avenue that way.

5. One of the educational buildings of the academy. The building is historical and pre-revolutionary. It looks like one more floor was once added to it.

6. Finally, in this place, I went into the actual territory of the park itself. This is the lower part of the park, where there are several small lakes. It's called - "Jordanian"

7. The park is interesting because it is landscape and different in relief. Many historical buildings and other artifacts have been preserved on its territory. The proximity to the railway also gives the park a certain flavor. The noise of suburban trains is heard all the time, but the noise of a huge city weakly penetrates here
All this somehow reminds me of my Kiev Dubki near which I grew up. There too - Railway, streams, oaks, lakes and a park within the city limits.
True, Kiev Dubki (there is practically a whole forest) will be larger in size, and there are no historical buildings there.

8. All the main buildings of the academy are located on the highest part of the park. The corner of the main academic building is already visible.

9. The fact that the Forest Park survived the revolution is due primarily to the outstanding scientist Egbert Ludwigovich Wolf, who was the chief gardener of Lesnoy for forty-five years - from 1886 until his death. Wolf did a tremendous job of landscaping the park, compiled a description of it. He was the author of over two hundred scientific papers on dendrology, which were published in four languages. In the city, not only specialists knew him well: every year, in front of the main building of the institute, Wolf laid out flower beds, which were rightfully considered the best in St. Petersburg. Egbert Ludwigovich did not leave his park during the years of devastation, becoming its "guardian angel". (quoted from Wikimapia).

10. The main building of the academy, which was built in 1833.

11. Opposite him is such an old "Pot with a squirrel". However, for the winter it is covered with a wooden shelter.
This is my photo still in autumn, now it is still closed.

12. On the walls of the main building there are memorial plaques to scientists who in different years worked here.

13. Such a figure also studied here.

14. Old houses on the territory of the park, which housed the main apartments of the academy employees. Who lives here now, I do not know.

15. Memorial to the heroes of the October Revolution in the southeastern part of the park.

16. Near it are several burial places of St. Petersburg Bolshevik revolutionaries.

17. It never occurs to anyone to demolish or disfigure all this.

18. The most southeastern corner of the park. At this point, Karbysheva Street passes under the railway. In this case, this is the Finnish connecting branch, along which trains from the southern part of the city get to the Vyborg route. The traffic here is very intense, especially due to the electric trains. But sometimes they pass and freight trains.

19. View of the park from the railway embankment.

20. On the other side of the embankment passes 1st Murinsky Prospect with a tram line.
By the way, not far from this place just happened in the 90s, under the ground erosion of the metro tunnel of the 1st "red" line, which for as much as 9 years left the whole district - Grazhdanka, without normal communication with the city.

21. The main passage turns towards Finland Station. Only electric trains run on it. But along the single-pile branch, which leaves to the right, freight trains go towards Vyborg. At the Lanskaya station, this route connects with the main passage to Vyborg.

22. We didn't have to wait long for the passing train. Behind it, in a couple of hundred meters, the Kushelevka station begins.

23. During the war, military facilities were set up in the park.
This is the so-called "Neva" facility with underground bunkers. It was built as a reserve command post during the years of the blockade.

24. In this case, this is one of the structures of the spare command post of the Leningrad Front, which served as a protected diesel power plant in 1943.
I don’t know what happened to the underground part of the Neva facility. Perhaps the St. Petersburg diggers own this issue.

25. Main building geophysical observatory, which was built most likely before the war. The building is located on Karbysheva Street and attracted my attention, even though it is already outside the park.

26. In the eastern part of the park there is such water tower 1909 built. Old monograms have been preserved on the tower.
It was assumed that with the help of this structure it would be possible to provide the entire Forest Institute with artesian water. However, the water obtained from the drilled wells had too high an iron content - a reddish-brown sediment fell out of it during settling. As a result, the idea of ​​water supply to the Forestry Institute with artesian water was abandoned, and the tower was used for the needs of the meteorological observatory. (from wikimapia)

27. Another ground part of the Neva facility.

28. The back of the main building of the academy.

29. And again the old wooden houses. How did all this not burn down during the shelling during the war?

30. The entire park is crossed by Institutsky lane. There is such a very beautiful wooden residential building on it, which stands out from the others.
All these houses were originally built for the staff of the academy. Nowadays, ordinary people live here.

31. Well, I just could not help but photograph. Modern looks amazing Russian number on this Soviet rarity.

32. A large building of the 2nd building of the Forestry Academy, built in the 1938-1940s. Today in this educational institution train operating specialists woodlands and urban greening.
This building already stands near Novorossiyskaya Street, which borders the park from the north.

33. In 150 meters Institutsky lane will come up against a fence with a gate through which you can go to Novorossiyskaya street.

34. More buildings. Everything is very old and gives off history.

36. And I took these pictures back in December.

38. By the way, inside the park there is also a small Botanical Garden, where the passage for outsiders is closed. It is in this closed area that the main object of the command post "Neva" is located, and there is also a squirrel there, because the park is full of squirrels.
Sometimes the entire park is called the Botanical Garden.

39. The fence of the park overlooking Novorossiyskaya street.

40. Houses on Novorossiyskaya street. You won't see them from this place in the summer.

41. And this is already Western part parka. This is the so-called "long pond".
All this is somehow connected through a drainage system with the lower pond, which is called "Jordan". There is also a little more to the left and Serdobolsky pond, which is located on the western edge of the park, just opposite the place where Serdobolskaya street abuts against Bolshoi Sampsonievsky prospect.

42. Historic site St. Petersburg.
Here the duel between Novosiltsev and Chernov took place - a duel famous in Russian history, which took place on the northern outskirts of St. Petersburg on September 14, 1825. Both duelists - adjutant wing Vladimir Novosiltsev and lieutenant of the Semyonovsky regiment Konstantin Chernov - were mortally wounded. The reason for the duel was Novosiltsev's refusal to marry Chernov's sister because of the resistance of his mother Ekaterina Vladimirovna.
Two concrete circles indicate where the duelists stood.

43. Chernov's second was his friend, also a member of the Northern secret society of the "Decembrists" KF Ryleev, who contributed to the transformation of the duel into a public event, and Chernov's funeral into a public manifestation.

44. Corner of Novosiltsevskaya lane and Novossiltsiyskaya street, which was also previously called Novosiltsevskaya. A beautiful century-old oak grows here

45. Buildings in the extreme northwest corner of the park.
This is the 3rd educational building of St. Petersburg GLTA, faculty of MTD (mechanical technology of wood).
The building houses the Scientific and Educational Center of the Faculty of MTD.

47. The inconsolable mother of Novosiltsev, Ekaterina Vladimirovna Novosiltseva, wishing to atone for her sin, acquired an inn in Lesnoye, where her son died and, having spent about 1 million rubles, built a Prince-Vladimirovsk church and an almshouse - Novosiltsevskoe charitable institution on this place.
From the latter, the name of Novosiltsevskaya street was formed (from December 15, 1952 - Novorossiyskaya), and at the end of the 20th century, in memory of the former name of the street, the adjacent passage was named Novosiltsevsky.

The temple was once located just in the area between these two houses (they housed an almshouse) and looked like this.

48. It was destroyed in the 30s of the 20th century.

58. I walked past the clinic to which I was assigned. I drew attention to her landscaped courtyard. And the building itself looks great.