Russian Jack Springs Park is a public park located in

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, managed by the Municipality of Anchorage. The park is named for Jacob "Russian Jack" Marunenko. The park comprises two quarter- sections, minus road rights-of-way, covering approximately . DeBarr Road, a major east–west arterial road in Anchorage, bisects the park. The land for the park was transferred to the municipality of Anchorage by the

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in 1948 and it was initially used as a minimum security prison farm.Deb Vanasse (2007). "Insiders' Guide to Anchorage and Southcentral Alaska, 2nd: Including the Kenai Peninsula, Prince William Sound, and Denali National Park". Morris Book Publishing. Page 82. It was the site of four murders by Charles L. Meach in 1982. Three years later, three elderly people were murdered by a teenaged couple in a secluded residential neighborhood approximately south of the park's border.

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