Zaryadye Park
Zaryadye Park, Moscow’s first new park in half a century, sits on a culturally charged site surrounded by the Kremlin, Saint Basil’s Cathedral, Red Square, a row of Eastern Orthodox churches, and the Moskva River. The Zaryadye district has a rich history. It was abandoned by affluent nobles when Peter the Great moved the capital to Saint Petersburg, in 1712. Following the Fire of Moscow, in 1812, it hosted the city’s largest Jewish enclave. While many Russian Jews emigrated after the pogroms of the 1880s, Zaryadye remained a Jewish neighborhood. After the 1917 October Revolution, Joseph Stalin planned to build a skyscraper on the site to house the People’s Commissariat of Heavy Industry in the style of the Seven Sisters, a skyscraper complex erected across the city, but the scheme was never realized. Ultimately, Premier Nikita Khrushchev built the three-thousand-room Rossiya Hotel on the site in the mid-1960s. The hotel was razed in 2006 to make room for a mixed-use development, but the city decided to build a public park instead.
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