Description of the attraction
In the historical part of the city of Ulyanovsk there is a public garden, founded in 1866 by the project of the local architect N. A. Lyubimov.
The history of the park began long before its foundation. In 1836, by order of Nicholas I, the central square was laid in the city of Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk), and a little later a monument to N. M. Karamzin was erected. The project of the monument was worked by: the architect A. A. Ton and the sculptor S. I. Galberg, and on August 23, 1845, the grand opening took place. Since then, the city square was called Karamzinskaya.
After a major fire in Simbirsk in 1864, most of the city's green area was destroyed and the administration decided to create a public garden in the city center. A year later, Lyubimov develops a project for a protective grating and the order is carried out in the workshops of I. V. Golubkov. Thus, the cast-iron fence completed the creation of the outer appearance of the square in 1869, and landscaping and improvement began.
In 1882, Karamzinsky Square, thanks to the Americans traveling along the Volga, became famous throughout the world. While studying fruit growing in Russia, foreign guests came across a rare species of wild pear in the park, which they described in their book upon arrival at their homeland. After that, orders for cuttings from the Karamzinsky public garden were poured from gardeners from Western countries.
Now Karamzinsky Square is a green area (mainly consisting of Karamzin's favorite shrub - lilac) with asphalted paths and covered with red crumbs, which gives a special flavor to the shady alleys. Some of the plantings date back to the nineteenth century, for which in 1995 the park was declared a natural monument of the city of Ulyanovsk.
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Anti-Lankaster 2017-03-09
And it was and could and existed
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YAKOVLEV VIKTOR 2017-07-02
THERE WAS NO CHURCH AND COULD NOT BE
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Osipov Viktor Fedorovich 2015-05-03
In 1966-67, the Old Believer Church was built in the park, and in 1968 it was demolished in connection with the construction of the Memcenter
