The Ravine Park separates the Anchor Square and the Naval St. Nicholas Cathedral from the Kronstadt Embankment, where many of the city`s attractions are located. It is called the word "park", however people do not go down to the bottom of the ravine, but admire from above: either from the edges of the ravine, or from the pedestrian Makarov Bridge.
The Ravine Park is part of the grandiose hydrotechnical engineering construction of the dry Peter Dock. Naval ships sailed into Peter Dock. After that, water was pumped out of it, and the bottoms of the ships were repaired.
The Dry Peter Dock began to be built in 1719 by order of Peter I. Its length is 384 meters, width – 34 meters, depth – 10 meters. Pumping of water from Peter dock was carried out to the Dock pool through a special channel. The length of this channel is 400 meters. At the end of the 19th century, the repair of ships in the dock stopped and this channel was no longer used.
The city authorities decided to create a park in this channel. Paths were laid along the bottom of the ravine, and a pedestrian bridge was built across the ravine near the Naval St. Nicholas Cathedral. At the beginning of the 20th century, the dock canal was named Ravine Park. The height of the trees planted in the Ravine Park at the beginning of the 20th century now reaches several tens of meters. Now they rise above the Ravine Park and through their foliage it is no longer possible to see the other side of the ravine.
In some places in the Ravine Park of Kronstadt, the masonry of the walls and bottom has been preserved. It is especially noticeable from the Communist Street. Through a dam on this street, water was drained from Peter Dock into the canal. Here the height of the ravine walls reaches 20 meters. On the opposite side, near the Summer Garden, the height of the ravine is much lower. You can get here from the Anchor Square. Near the stairs to the Ravine Park, a mosaic panel "The Triumph of the Russian Fleet" is installed.
