An archive of Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leisure: the work, documents composition and contents

Abstract

This article contains the information about emergence, structure and content of archive of Gorky Park - the first Soviet park of culture and leisure. Gorky Park was founded in 1928, and over 86 years of its existence it left behind a lot of most interesting and various materials gathered by Park’s archives. This article contains a review of documentary funds and collections of archive, information about most interesting, unusual and unique documents, many curious facts about work of archive, and also descriptions of ways to access archival materials of Gorky Park for researchers.