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GORKY PARK
Moscow's main escape from the city within the city is not your conventional
expanse of nature preserved deep inside an urban jungle. It is not a fun fair
either, though it used to be one. Its official name says it all - Maxim Gorky's
Central Park of Culture & Leisure. That's exactly what it provides: culture and
leisure in all shapes and forms. Designed by avant-garde architect Konstantin
Melnikov as a piece of Communist utopia in the 1920s, these days it show-
cases the enlightened transformation Moscow has undergone in the recent
past.
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