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. Its name came from the Logo beam in which floodplain it is situated.

History

The Loga Park was created by local businessman Sergey A. Kushnarenko, the owner of paints, varnishes and lacquers group Престиж холдинг in a droughty region in a former dump site and opened in 2012.

Landscape design

The

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is an example of modern garden art and received a local unofficial name Little Switzerland for its picturesque view. Originally the Loga Park occupied an area of 16 hectares, and was subsequently expanded to 22 hectares. There is a false mirror gallery, a 7D

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, a

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, a garden of stones, a

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, a river, bridges and

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s, over a hundred sculptures, several ponds with turtles, golden fish and swans, waterfalls, small zoo with deer, squirrels, raccoons, peacocks and many other kinds of birds and animals. In 2015, a new Orthodox church of

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was erected on the territory of the park. There is a restaurant Teterev, and a snack-bar Lukomoriye, where

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ers work in the park. The Loga Park has an operating cost of about 1 million

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s a month. Further expansion of the territory is planned as well as construction of an aqua park and a hotel. In 2016, the park was visited by the governor of the Rostov region Vasily Golubev, who promised to support the park and build a separate road to it from the highway M-4 Don. The entry is from the Don highway through the junction following signpost to the Old Stanitsa.

References

External links

Logapark.ru

Loga.ru
* http://worldroads.ru/park-loga-samyiy-krasivyiy-na-donu
На Старую Станицу свалился кусочек Швейцарии

Wikimapia парк «Лога́»

Губернатор пообещал дорогу к парку “Лога”
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