Southern cultures

Southern cultures are an amazing park in Sochi, broken back in the distant 1910 under the guidance of the talented gardener Arnold Regel.

In 1910, General Daniil Vasilievich Drachevsky wanted to break a large park on his Manor Manor on an area of 11 hectares. To do this, he invited a specialist in landscape gardening Regel, who shared the entire park with many paths. With tropins, he received many large flower beds from plants and trees formed into groups: coniferous flower beds ( cedar, pine, fir, cryptomeria, cypress ), deciduous flower beds ( rhododendron, laurel, magnolia, platinum ), flower beds with bamboo, palm trees, etc. Single trees and shrubs were planted on meadows. The park planted several alleys of the base, for which there was a Himalayan cedar, tulip tree and fir. Artificial ponds fit successfully into all this beauty, in which you can see black and white swans. One of the ponds is located in the eastern part of the park, and the second is on the right side of the main alley. The second pond was built by expanding the stream of the stream and smashed around the lawn, with patterns of plants.

In 1920, the park was transferred to the state farm Random, and after 9 years it acquired the current name - Southern Cultures. In Soviet times, a new round of park development begins. In 1936-1939, Professor Artsybashev brought many exotic plants, including Japanese cherries and maples, camellias, hybrid rhododendrons. In the 1950s, eucalyptus alley was planted.

With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the park forgotten, hurricanes contributed in the late 1980s. Due to the close position of groundwater, many exotic plants have died or slowed their growth. Only in 2008 did the park pay attention and begin its reconstruction, designed for a year and a half. During the reconstruction, the park cleared paths and glades from fallen, sick trees and garbage, installed benches, planted over 200 trees, more bushes of 500 roses. But, nevertheless, the work done did not help the park, then it was decided to transfer it to the leadership of the Sochi National Park, which carried out a global reconstruction. Nowadays, the park has revived and can again delight visitors with its beauty.