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Gurzuf Park

Gurzuf Park is the sight of Gurzuf. It was created in 1803 on the seaside rock. The park is landscape, more than 110 kinds and decorative forms of trees and bushes of South flora grow there. Among the local kinds there are: smallfruited strawberry tree, Crimean pine, juniper, pistache, butcher's broom, Crimean rock rose. Foreign kinds are represented by many subtropical evergreen coniferous and deciduous kinds. The old planting of pyramid-like cypresses, giant sequoyadendron, magnolias, cedars, olives are of great interest. There are wonderful sculptures and fountains in the park among which the allegoric artistic composition of fountains "Night" and "Rahil" are particularly isolated. The busts of Pushkin, Adam Mitskevich, Lesya Ukrainka, Chekhov, Shalyapin, Gorky, Mayakovsky are also installed.

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