Sergei Sobyanin: Moscow parks offer remarkable opportunities for leisure and recreation

The Moscow Government will implement a strategy to improve its urban environment by 2030. Renovation of major parks, which had been last improved 10 to 12 years ago, to be the priority project, Sergei Sobyanin blogs.

In 2011–2023, the authorities restored or re-created more than 1,000 parks and public gardens, including Zaryadye, Maryinsky Ruchey, Khodynskoye Pole, Vsekhsvyatskaya Roshcha, 50-Letiya Oktyabrya Park, Northern River Station Park, and the Children’s Cherkizovsky Park.

“Today, 90 per cent of our city’s residents have a park just around the corner. Parks have become great hotspots for Muscovites of all ages, offering the widest opportunities for recreation and leisure at any time of the year. The number of holidaymakers in parks has increased approximately fivefold,” the Moscow Mayor writes.

Other large recreation areas will be renovated, too. Work is already underway in Gorky Park, Sokolniki Park and Kolomenskoye Museum-Reserve, with Izmailovsky Park, Fili Park and the Kuzminki-Lyublino Museum-Reserve next in line, while utility providers arrange summer swimming pools and beaches, open-air skating rinks, excellent children’s and sports grounds, and cafeterias.